Four out of five academic research positions in languages go to Uppsala University

The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Natur & Kultur Foundation will be funding the new academic research positions for post-doctoral researchers to strengthen language research in Sweden. The positions, which are for three years with the possibility of a two-year extension, can be placed at any Swedish higher education institution.

“The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities aims to help maintain and develop a high level of linguistic competence in languages ranging from the major world languages to older cultural and minority languages. Language expertise is linked to knowledge in the history, literature and cultural heritage of different language areas, which is a key resource for society to maintain,” says Torun Lindholm Öjmyr, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in a press release.

The following researchers have been awarded an academic research position at Uppsala University:

Jonas Karlsson, Department of Linguistics and Philology, with a project in Ethiopian/Semitic languages: Editing the Earliest Ethiopian and Eritrean Liturgical Poetry.

Shu Li, Department of Linguistics and Philology, with a project in Chinese: ‘Writing about Writing’: Women Song Lyric Poets’ Double Transgression against the Gender Boundary and Literati Boudoir Poetics during Late Imperial China.

Johan Lundberg, Department of Linguistics and Philology, with a project in Syrian/Semitic languages: Inventors and guardians. A History of Medieval Syriac Scribes.

Fredrik Valdeson, Department of Scandinavian Languages, with a project in Swedish/Nordic languages: När grammatiken dör. Ett projekt om syntaktiska konstruktioners nedgång och fall (When grammar dies: A project on the decline and fall of syntactic constructions.)

Anders Bernd