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PhD student (Promovendus) Literary Quality
38 hours a week (1.0 fte)

The PhD will be part of the research project The Riddle of Literary
Quality, led by Huygens ING in cooperation with the Fryske Akademy and
the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the
University of Amsterdam.
Literary quality is one of the most fascinating issues in Literary
Studies. Scholars have found that social and cultural factors play an
important role in the acceptance of a fictional work as literary or
non-literary and as good or bad. The project The Riddle of Literary
Quality will research whether formal characteristics of a text also play
a role in readers' decisions to call a fictional text literary or
non-literary, and good or bad. Many formal characteristics can be
thought of as having a part in this, e.g. the use of difficult words,
the number of adjectives and adverbs, or complex syntactic style. The
project will integrate the analysis of low-level lexical-statistical
features and high-level syntactic and narrative features. More
information can be found at http://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/.

The project will be coordinated by Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens
ING) in close collaboration with Prof. Dr Rens Bod (ILLC) and Dr Hanno
Brand (Fryske Akademy). The project team will further consist of a
Postdoc and a Developer. The project is part of the Computational
Humanities Programme funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences (KNAW) and connected to the e-Humanities Group
(http://ehumanities.nl/).

The PhD will be working on the research into and the analysis of the
low-level features that will be selected for analysis. The PhD will
therefore combine knowledge of existing research into literary quality
with new empirical approaches as developed in the area of
digital/computational humanities. The PhD will collaborate with team
members in the development of new tools and in presentations and
publications about the project, and will report on part of the work in a
dissertation to be defended at the University of Amsterdam.

Position requirements
- Master in Literary Studies or a closely related field
- Knowledge of Dutch, English, and possibly also of Frisian
- Affinity with empirical research
- Affinity with information technology and willing to learn basic
programming skills
- Able to work as member of a closely collaborating team
- Willing to reach out to and collaborate with national and
international colleagues in related research disciplines
- Willing to work at different locations (The Hague, Amsterdam, and
occasionally Leeuwarden) with The Hague as the main location

Appointment and Salary
The appointment will be for 12 months. Upon positive evaluation, it will
be extended with another 36 months (full-time). Applicants should have
the right to work in the Netherlands for the duration of the contract.
The salary starts at € 2,042.- in the first year and increases to €
2,612.- in the fourth year, based on a full-time appointment (Collective
Agreement for Dutch universities), excluding 8% holiday pay and a 8,3%
year-end bonus.

Applications
Please send a letter of application including
1. a curriculum vitae;
2. a letter of recommendation;
3. a list of courses followed and a copy of the MA diploma (please
provide translations of these documents in English or Dutch where
appropriate);
4. a copy of the MA thesis or a writing sample of it;
5. an extended letter of motivation explaining the applicant’s
qualifications for this position (max. 1,000 words).
before October 10, 2011 to Bedrijfsbureau Huygens ING, t.a.v. Hetty
Labots, Personnel Department, P.O. Box 95366, 2509 CJ  The Hague, The
Netherlands or by e-mail to sollicitaties@huygens.knaw.nl

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