ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at University College Dublin

Friday, 16 May, 2025

Applications are invited for a temporary 36 months post of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level 1 or Level 2) within the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland.

The Postdoctoral Research is expected to have experience in digital humanities research and will be associated with the ERC-funded project “New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (c. 1690–1800)” (ERC CoG BMoral, 2025–2030), led by Professor Ruth Boeker. This project aims to rethink narratives about eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, which to the present day continue to focus predominantly on male authors, despite overwhelming evidence that women participated in the moral debates of this period. The project will analyse a large corpus that is inclusive of moral writings by male and female authors and will shed new light on the intellectual networks in which male and female philosophers interacted. By bringing together computational digital humanities research with traditional philosophical methods of close reading and interpretation the project intends to overcome the marginalization of women philosophers in histories of British moral histories of British moral philosophy and to advance methodological approaches to the history of philosophy.

Expected start date of employment: 1 September 2025

PD1 Salary: €45,847–€52,339 per annum

Appointment on the above range will be dependent upon qualifications and experience.

PD2 salary: Fixed Salary: €53,770 per annum

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on the 2nd of June 2025

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified.

Detailed position description and link to apply:

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