Postdoctoral researcher in the Bit Philology project

UniBE is ambitious. With us, you deliver top performance and test your skills against the best.

Your tasks

Develop your research line and participate in project activities. This includes

• working in archives;
• clarifying rights and potential ethical issues;
• communicating with archivists and authors/rights holders;
• working with legacy hardware and software, using digital forensics methods;
• studying the writing process of authors across different media;
• studying archival materials such as unpublished texts and drafts of publications;
• publishing and presenting your work locally and internationally;
• contributing to the organisation of scholarly events;
• collaborating with the rest of the team.

Participation in teaching is optional.

The starting date is March 2027, with flexibility for a later start.

What we offer

• A dynamic and collaborative research environment at the Digital Humanities unit.
• Work-life balance through flexible work schedules.
• Training opportunities in all areas of the project and related fields.
• Salary according to SNSF regulations.

Candidate profile

• PhD in textual scholarship (philology, textual criticism, scholarly editing, genetic criticism) or literary studies or digital humanities.
• Prior experience in working with archives.
• Prior experience or strong interest in contemporary Swiss French and/or Italian literature; born-digital archival records; computational literary studies.
• Strong motivation to work independently as well as with others within a diverse, interdisciplinary environment.
• Working proficiency in English and French; Italian is a plus.
• Self-discipline and creative thinking.

Application and Contact

If you are eager to work with born-digital literary archives, at the crossroad of digital humanities and textual scholarship, please apply by sending the following documents to [email protected]:

• Academic CV
• Letter of motivation, explaining how you fit the candidate profile
• One writing sample (publication, PhD chapter)
• Contact details of two references

Please merge all the documents together into one PDF file and name the file as follows: yourSurname_BitPhil_postdoc.pdf (e.g. Spadini_BitPhil_postdoc.pdf).

Application deadline: 30 November 2026.

Interview dates: between 7 and 12 January 2027.