The Department of Nordic Research, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Old Norse philology to be filled by 1 January 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Department of Nordic Research, with a total number of staff approximating 100, comprises four sections: the Arnamagnæan Institute, the Section for Danish Dialectology, the Section for Onomastics, and, from January 2015, the Centre for Language Technology. The department specialises in the fields of Early Scandinavian language and literature, manuscript studies, Danish dialectology and socio-linguistics, onomastics, runology, language technology and computational linguistics.

The successful candidate will be attached to the Arnamagnæan Institute, established in 1956 with the aim of preserving, publishing and furthering the study of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, bequeathed by the Icelandic philologist and historian Árni Magnússon to the University of Copenhagen in 1730. The academic staff of the section is responsible for research and instruction in the areas of Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Danish and Old Swedish, as well as Modern Icelandic and Faroese language and literature. The section also houses the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose and attached to the section there is a photographic studio and a conservation workshop. The section publishes a series of scholarly monographs under the general title Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana and a series of critical editions of Old Norse-Icelandic texts, Editiones Arnamagnæanæ; a new series of digital editions is planned.

Application deadline: 3 August, 2015

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=734816