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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>Please help spread the word about this non-tenure job opening for
a post-doc interested in examining narrative strategies of
premodern Korean texts and willing to work on such strategies in <i>chemun
</i>and other life-narrating genres in a collaborative/comparative
setting, starting Oct 1, 2026. The deadline for application is
July 13. </p>
<p>All details are found under:</p>
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<p>At a glance:</p>
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<h1
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style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2">Postdoctoral
Researcher (m/f/x) (TV-L E13, 100%) in the CRC project C03
\u201eSpeaking of Life to/about the Dead: Character and Subject
Constitution in Korean Mourning Ritual Texts of the
16th-18th Centuries\u201c</font></span></h1>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Times New Roman">The
Collaborative Research Centre \u201cHistorical and Transcultural
Narratology\u201d (TRR 427), funded by the German Research
Foundation, examines pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early
modern) narratives from different cultural contexts with the
aim of systematically and comparatively investigating the
dynamics and functions of narratives in past contexts. The
project, consisting of 19 PIs from 16 different disciplines,
is based at the universities of Bochum, Bonn, and Freiburg.
Subject to project approval.</font></p>
<p class="__bjp-text-blue"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(23, 54, 92);"><font
face="Times New Roman">Subproject C03 »Speaking of Life
to/about the Dead« (PI: Prof. Dr. Marion Eggert) engages
with narrativity as an essential but often overlooked part
of premodern Korean funerary orations (chemun), i.e. texts
addressing the dead and read out during mourning rituals.
Analysis centers around two interrelated sets of questions:
one concerning configuration of character and subject
constitution; the other concerning the narrative procedures
employed, such as fragmentation, lyricisation, and dialogue.
The results will be tested against other contemporaneous
biographical genres, aiming at a preliminary model of
premodern Korean techniques of narrating lives. The
subproject is methodologically based on historical philology
and text hermeneutics, but will strive to include DH tools
including AI. The successful candidate (m/f/x) will
cooperate with the PI and with other members of the CRC to
accomplish the subproject\u2019s research objectives and produce
the expected publication output.</font></p>
<p class="__bjp-text-blue"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(23, 54, 92);"><font
face="Times New Roman">We are looking for a scholar with a
completed doctoral degree in Korean Studies or an adjacent
field, with proficiency in the Korean language; sufficient
reading abilities in pre-modern Korean and, especially, <i>hanmun</i>;
proficiency in written and spoken English; and with
philological and hermeneutical competencies.</font></p>
<p class="__bjp-text-blue"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(23, 54, 92);"><font
face="Times New Roman">Place of residence will have to be
Bochum or nearby (except for term breaks). </font></p>
<p class="__bjp-text-blue"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(23, 54, 92);"><font
face="Times New Roman">Many thanks<br>
Marion</font></p>
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