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September 6, 2025

**Job Description**
Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position within the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, affiliated with the TEXT: Contemporary Cultures of Text project. This research-focused role will critically investigate how AI transforms text culture, involve participation in empirical studies, and require collaboration on projects exploring AI-driven creativity and co-creation in text. The successful candidate will also contribute to TEXT’s broader research initiatives, academic outreach, and engage in a small degree of teaching and supervision at BA and MA levels in English and Danish.

**Skills & Abilities**
• An internationally oriented research profile within NLP, literature, information science, media studies, or a closely related domain, 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
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• (Advantageous) A track record of research publications of a high international standard commensurate with the length of the applicant’s academic career
• (Advantageous) Experience of participation in national and international research networks
• (Advantageous) Time spent abroad working at one or more internationally recognised research institutions

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Ph.D. degree or equivalent qualifications in a relevant field related to natural language processing (NLP), literature, information science, media studies or a closely related domain

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Work Level
Postdoc
Employment Type
Research Job
Salary
Benefits: Healthcare, paid holidays, maternity/paternity leave, childcare, schooling, relocation service, AU Expat Partner Programme, Junior Researcher Development Programme
Details
Full-time / Temporary Duration: 2 years Remote Work: No Brief location description if available, e.g., Campus-based: On-site presence required at the department daily
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric • School of Communication and Culture • TEXT: Contemporary Cultures of Text • Faculty of Arts
Supervisor(s)
Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Supervisor Email
[email protected] [email protected]
Aarhus University
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