Assistant professor Faculty of Polish Studies

Organisation/Company University of Warsaw Department Faculty of Polish Studies Research Field Literature » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions PhD Positions Final date to receive applications 9 Mar 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Warsaw) Country Poland Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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Job on a grant "Print Agents and Their Paratexts in the Protestant Printing Networks of Poland-Lithuania and Prussia (until 1660)".

This project aims to investigate the printing centres run by Protestants in the region of Poland-Lithuania and Prussia between the emergence of Reformation printing in the region in the early sixteenth century and the period of the Swedish wars in the mid-seventeenth century (c. 1660). The analysed production from these printing shops includes three languages:
German, Latin, and Polish. The project aims to analyse the networks constituted by various print agents (all those actors involved in book production who left their textual or typographic traces in the edition) and the books they produced. By systematically studying the paratexts (all resources besides the main body of a published text within its edition), the roles declaratively assigned to the books printed in these centres will be examined.

The amassed data will elucidate the networks and emerging publishing strategies reconstructed from the bibliographical data and the utterances of the annotated paratexts. The project has three main research objectives:
1) To identify the Protestant printing centres in Poland, Lithuania, and Prussia as part of the communities created by the print agents involved in the book production process;
2) To systematically analyse the paratexts of the books produced in these centres in order to look for their literary structures, the fixed lines of thought, or the clichés used by their authors.
3) To formulate a new methodological perspective for the study of early modern print culture, which would benefit from the projection of bibliographic data onto a network enriched by detailed descriptions of the paratexts and their semantically annotated transcriptions. As such, the project emphasises the interdependencies between print agents, the artefacts they created, and the paratexts in which they communicated their message as print agents.

E-mail konkursy.polon.pl

Research Field Literature » Other Education Level PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

• Fulfilment of the requirements set out in Article 113 of the Law on Higher Education and Science (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 1571, consolidated text)
• A doctorate in the humanities. In accordance with the appendix to Resolution No. 84/2024 of the National Science Centre Council dated September 5, 2024: the degree was obtained no earlier than 12 years before January 1, 2026, taking into account documented career breaks, in accordance with the appendix to the Resolution of the National Science Centre Council; the candidate: holds a doctoral degree awarded outside the University of Warsaw OR holds a doctoral degree awarded at the University of Warsaw and, since the award of the degree, has completed at least 10 months of continuous and documented postdoctoral training outside Poland.
• Scientific achievements documented by publications.
• International experience (e.g., participation in international conferences, research internships, participation in international research teams).
• Advanced knowledge of Latin certified by a diploma or scientific achievements.
• Fluent knowledge of English enabling fluent communication and writing at an academic level.

Specific Requirements

Competences that are welcome (not obligatory):

• Proficiency in at least one of the following modern languages:
  Polish or German.
• Expertise in early modern Latin (sixteenth–seventeenth century).
• Expertise in working with early printed books and pamphlets.
• Experiences with scholarly editing of early modern sources.
• Workplace:
  University of Warsaw (possibility of performing…