Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS

About the role

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is a two-year, full-time position designed for a scholar-practitioner eager to develop a community around a new digital humanities initiative, gain experience in project management, and contribute to the development of emerging forms of knowledge production.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Computational Humanities academic programs and lab space, fostering a vibrant community through events, workshops, and student engagement.

• Facilitating applied research experiences for students, working closely with CH/Libraries faculty and staff.

• Maintaining the digital presence for the program and lab, highlighting student and faculty work.

• Mentoring and learning by directing student assistants.

• Developing and managing editorial and production workflows for a new imprint of non-traditional, multimodal publishing projects under the aegis of CMU Press.

• Designing and coordinating the project management, production, and design process for multimodal publications.

• Managing author communications.

• Mentoring and learning by supervising student assistants and developing universal and collaborative publishing workflows for digital.

Qualifications

• PhD in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, or a related interdisciplinary field (degree must be awarded by start date).

• Demonstrated interest in computational/digital humanities, public scholarship, or new forms of publishing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience facilitating events, teaching, or supporting collaborative research.

• Experience with scholarly production workflows.

• Familiarity with digital publishing tools and platforms such as GitHub, LaTeX, Manifold, etc.