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Call for Doctoral contracts LREN, GREN, CRIHN (Université de Montréal)

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The Research Laboratory on Digital Textualities, the Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique (GREN) and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) are offering doctoral contracts each amounting to $35,000 CAD per year for 4 years.

The research will be conducted as part of a PhD program (Digital Humanities option) at the University of Montreal. Candidates will work 4 days a week as members of the Revue3.0 partnership, the Égée Partnership Development project and the GREN. 

Selected candidates will propose a doctoral project within the field of Digital Humanities related to one of the themes described in the profiles below. They will have the following skills and research interests, or any other equivalent skills deemed relevant:

  • Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (required);
  • Interest in methodologies specific to Digital Humanities;
  • Knowledge of theoretical and technical issues of digital publishing
  • Research interest in the transmission and circulation of knowledge
  • Skills in research and project management;
  • Proficiency in French and English.

Applications must be sent no later than May 15th, 2026, to the following email address: contact@ecrituresnumeriques.ca (please specify in the subject line: “Application – PhD in Digital Humanities”). The email should include the following documents:

A cover letter; A curriculum vitae; A research project outline (maximum 500 words); A sample of scientific writing (published or to be published article, master’s thesis excerpt, etc.).

After evaluation of the applications, a shortlist of candidates will be invited for interviews via videoconference during the first week of June 2026.

The start date for the doctoral contracts is scheduled for either January 2027 or September 2027.

Profil no 1: Technical Environments and the Emergence of Meaning

This doctoral contract is intended for PhD projects that explore the influence of the material forms of writing, transmission, and appropriation of knowledge in the humanities, as well as the relationships between digital environments, writing practices, and the modalities through which meaning emerges.

Approaches drawing on media studies, philosophy of the digital, the history of the book and scholarly journals, theories of new materialism, critical code studies and AI, as well as theories of publishing and editorialization will be particularly valued, although this list is not exhaustive.

A willingness to develop technical skills (digital publishing, programming and markup languages) is expected, as the candidate will be encouraged to develop case studies to support their theoretical analyses. Technical knowledge in the digital humanities is not required but will be considered an asset.

Profil no 2:  Digital classics

This doctoral contract is open to Hellenist or digital classicist candidates with a background in Ancient Greek, whose research will be conducted within the Égée partnership development project: Éditions grecques, épistémologies et environnements numériques (Greek Editions, Epistemologies, and Digital Environments). Structured around three complementary axes (epistemological models, digital production tools, and dissemination) the project aims to renew the conception, production, and distribution of ancient Greek texts in order to establish new textual, editorial, and scholarly models suited to the digital age.

Research may freely explore theoretical, philological, editorial, or literary dimensions. Applications may focus in particular on digital editing frameworks in philology and their influence on our relationship to classical texts, on the articulation and construction of textual models, as well as on the stakes of digital critical editions, collaborative editorial dynamics, encoding standards, and data interoperability, among other topics. Technical skills in digital humanities are not required, but will be considered an asset.