Postdoc for Center of Excellence

The Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric within the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoctoral position affiliated with TEXT: Contemporary Cultures of Text.

The postdoctoral researcher position is a full time and 2-year fixed-term position. The position begins on 1 February 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The School of Communication and Culture is committed to diversity and encourages all qualified applicants to apply regardless of their personal background.

Project

For a brief description of the project, see the center’s website. Please note that English is the working language for the project.

Postdoctoral researcher position

The successful applicant will be expected to

• Engage in critical, theoretically informed research on how AI is transforming text culture
• Participate in and contribute to empirical studies, for example, survey designs, corpus studies, experimental setups
• Collaborate across projects exploring AI-driven creativity and co-creation in text
• Contribute to TEXT’s broader research initiatives and academic outreach.

Teaching and supervision

As postdoctoral researcher, your position is primarily research-based, but it will also involve a small degree of teaching and supervision. To that end, the successful applicant will be expected to take part in the department’s teaching and supervision activities and to teach and supervise on BA and MA levels.

Given the international focus of the degree programmes, the successful applicant will be expected to teach in English as well as Danish.

Qualifications

Applicants must have a PhD degree or must document equivalent qualifications in a relevant field related to Natural Language Processing (NLP), Literature, Information Science, Media Studies or a closely related domain. Applicants must be able to document, relevant to the position:

• An internationally oriented research profile within in NLP, Literature, Information Science, Media Studies, or a closely related domain as documented by a PhD dissertation and/or research publications
• A solid theoretical and analytical understanding of text culture, AI, and related fields
• Experience of empirical research methods, such as corpus analysis, surveys, or other data-driven approaches
• Strong interdisciplinary orientation and capacity to collaborate across the digital humanities, computational linguistics, media studies, or cognitive science
• relevant teaching experience at university level as documented by a teaching portfolio (or equivalent documentation of teaching experience and qualifications) commensurate with the length of the applicant’s academic career
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in order to engage productively both within the research team and with external organisations and institutions.

Furthermore, it will be considered an advantage if applicants can document

• A track record of research publications of a high international standard commensurate with the length of the applicant’s academic career
• Experience of participation in national and international research networks
• Time spent abroad working at one or more internationally recognised research institutions.

Finally, applicants are asked to provide a proposal for research to be undertaken within the stated framework of the research project (max. 1-2 pages).

Please note that although the application process can be completed on the Aarhus University system without uploading publications or a teaching portfolio, applications that do not include uploaded publications (maximum two) will not be considered.

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