[Histling-l] Postdocs @ Manchester

[David Denison]

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David Denison  
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Job vacancy: Research Associate in Linguistics/English Language, University of 
Manchester, UK (HUM-14501)  

Employment type: full-time, fixed-term position for three years from 2 December 2019 to 1 
December 2022  

A postdoctoral research associate position is available at the University of Manchester in 
support of a major multidisplicinary AHRC-funded project – ‘Unlocking the Mary Hamilton 
Papers’. This project will use a uniquely rich, but largely unexplored, archive to explore a set 
of research questions on reading, letter-writing and language practices in Georgian 
England. It will shed new light on the culture of English society in this period and will help to 
launch an exciting new genre of Hamilton studies.  

The successful candidate will work with a team of experts from the fields of linguistics, 
history, literary studies and digital humanities to develop a complete digital edition of the 
Mary Hamilton Papers archive, and to investigate everyday language of the social networks 
around Mary Hamilton during the late Georgian period, evidence for the influence of 
language standardisation forces on letter-writing and language use generally, and how the 
social networks around Hamilton reflect the progress of the wholesale realignment of the 
English auxiliary verb system in the late Modern English period. The post-holder will be 
given career mentoring and support throughout their employment.  

The ideal candidate should have completed a PhD in Linguistics or English Language, 
focussing on some or all of the period 1700-1900, and which demonstrates one or more of 
the following areas of research expertise: social network analysis, language variation and 
change, historical sociopragmatics, letter-writing practices, normative linguistics, historical 
syntax, and competence in corpus linguistics research. Applicants should also have 
experience of working with original source materials and should be able to read a variety of 
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century handwriting.  

Web address for applications and further particulars of the job:
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/displayjob.aspx?jobid=17861

Closing date for the receipt of applications: 30 September 2019 (midnight).  

We expect to hold interviews for the post between 8 and 10 October 2019.

Enquiries about vacancy shortlisting and interviews can be addressed to David Denison 
(david.denison at manchester.ac.uk) or Nuria Yáñez-Bouza  
(nuria.yanez-bouza at manchester.ac.uk).
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        Professor David Denison, FBA
        Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics
        School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
        University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | U.K.
david.denison at manchester.ac.uk
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/david.denison.html
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