[KS] CfA: Postdoctoral position, 45 months, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

[Marion Eggert]

Dear colleagues,

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 /chemun /and 
other life-narrating genres in a collaborative/comparative setting, 
starting Oct 1, 2026. The deadline for application is July 13.

All details are found under:

https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/dde08f197ed9f1907448038668306b9e11904a0c0

At a glance:


  Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) (TV-L E13, 100%) in the CRC project
  C03 „Speaking of Life to/about the Dead: Character and Subject
  Constitution in Korean Mourning Ritual Texts of the 16th-18th Centuries“

The Collaborative Research Centre “Historical and Transcultural 
Narratology” (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.

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’s research objectives and produce 
the expected publication output.

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, 
/hanmun/; proficiency in written and spoken English; and with 
philological and hermeneutical competencies.

Place of residence will have to be Bochum or nearby (except for term 
breaks).

Many thanks
Marion

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