Job Offer: Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Images and Objects (salary group W3)

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The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a

Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Images and Objects (salary group W3)

at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. This is a full-time and permanent position to be filled by the earliest possible starting date.

We seek to appoint a leading expert with an internationally visible profile in research and teaching. The successful candidate must have expertise in several of the following areas: methods for image and object-based digital humanities, distant viewing, computer-assisted techniques and analytical approaches for researching visual culture, hermeneutics of digital humanities, digitalization of cultural heritage, software development, and infrastructures for visual computing. The successful candidate will have a track record in the acquisition of third-party funding and an excellent research profile, demonstrated with internationally visible publications and an established research network. Experience in interdisciplinary collaborative research is desirable, and your research must tie in with the key research priorities at FAU and the faculty. We also expect willingness to participate in innovative courses and to develop innovative teaching concepts.


Please find a full job description and further information here.
Application deadline: Sept, 29th 2024