Curriculum Vitae

Education

2009–2015 PhD – Doktoratsstudium, Dr. Phil., Indo-European Studies, University of Vienna.

2003–2008 Research Master – Diplomstudium, Mag. Phil., Celtic Studies, University of Vienna.

Awards

2023 ERC Consolidator Grant “GLOSSIT: Celtic and Latin glossing traditions:
uncovering early medieval language contact and knowledge transfer”.
Starting date: June 2024.

2021 Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship “Early Medieval Glosses And
The Question Of Their Genesis: A Case Study On The Vienna Bede” funded by
the European Commission Research Executive Agency Grant Agreement number:
101019035 — GLOSS-VIBE — H2020-MSCA-IF-2020.

2020 Maynooth University Early Career Achievement Award 2020.

2020 Maynooth University 2020 Early Career Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Celtic
Studies and Philosophy Research Achievement Award.

2020 Herzog August Bibliothek Kurzzeitstipendium für Promovierte.

2018 MUAHI Early Career Research Grant.

2018 Winner of the best Ignite Presentation during Maynooth University’s Research Week 2018.

2018 RIA Charlemont Grant 2018
awarded by the Royal Irish Academy for research visits to libraries in Venice and
Munich.

2017 Moore Institute, PostDoc Visiting Fellowship
awarded by the Moore Institute for a research stay at National University of
Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Ireland.

2016 Awardee of the IFK for the Sommer Akademie 2016 – “Hunger, Food, and
Asceticism”.

2016 Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship
awarded by the Irish Research Council.

2014 Awardee of the IFK for the Sommer Akademie 2014 – “Translation as a cultural technique”.

2012 Marietta Blau-Grant awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF) for an 8 month stay at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Experience (Excerpt)

since Feb 2025 Assistant Professor for “Digital Historical Linguistics”, Department for Digital Humanities, University of Graz.

since Jun 2024 Principal Investigator, Department for Digital Humanities, University of Graz. “Celtic and Latin glossing traditions: uncovering early medieval language contact and knowledge transfer” (GlossIT), funded by the European Commission Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon Programme, grant agreement No. 101123203.

Oct 2023 – May 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz. Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher for the project “German Arithmetical Treatises in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages (1400-1522)”, funded by the European Commission Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon programme, grant agreement No. 101039572. The project is co-hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz. Directed by Dr. Michaela Wiesinger.

Sep 2023 Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Analysing the glosses found in two manuscripts at the Herzog August Bibliothek to to examine the interconnections between them and Celtic manuscripts transmitting Priscian’s Latin grammar.

Sep 2021 – Aug 2023 MSCA IF-Postdoctoral Fellow, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz.
Postdoctoral Researcher for the project “Early Medieval Glosses And The Question Of Their Genesis: A Case Study On The Vienna Bede”, funded by the European Commission Research Executive Agency Grant Agreement number: 101019035 — GLOSS-VIBE — H2020-MSCA-IF-2020. Mentor: Prof. Georg Vogeler.

Oct 2018 – Apr 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Early Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland.
Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “Chronologicon Hibernicum – A Probabilistic Chronological Framework for Dating Early Irish Language Developments and Literature”, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 647351. Directed by Prof. David Stifter.

Oct 2016 – Sep 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Early Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland.
Postdoctoral Researcher for the IRC funded project “Languages in Exchange: Ireland and her Neighbours”, Project ID: GOIPD/2016/174.

May 2017 Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland. Awardee of the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship to carry out work on the multilinguistic early medieval Celtic glossing tradition on Bede and Priscian.

Sep 2016 – May 2017 Occasional Lecturer, Department of Early Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland. Teaching the courses “Readings from Early Irish Literature 1+2” at the department of Early Irish of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 Research assistant, Department of Early Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland.
Research assistant for the project “Chronologicon Hibernicum” – see above.

Sep 2015 – May 2016 Occasional Lecturer, Department of Early Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland. Teaching the courses “Readings from Early Irish Literature 1+2” at the department of
Early Irish of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

Nov 2014 – Dec 2014 Occasional Lecturer, Department for Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Teaching the course “Soziolinguistik der keltischen Sprachen – Ulster-Scots and the Scots in Ulster: An Introduction to Language, History and Culture” (together with Dr. Dieter Reinisch).

Jul 2013 – Oct 2014 Research fellow, Department for Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Sole research fellow for the project “Wörterbuch der altirischen Priscianglossen” (Dictionary of the Old Irish Priscian glosses) (P 22859), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF). Directed by Dr. Stefan Schumacher.

Oct 2013 – Feb 2014 Occasional Lecturer, Department for Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Teaching the course “Irisch-Britannischer Kontakt im Mittelalter: Ein kulturwissenschaflicher Ansatz” (together with Dr. Aaron Griffith) at the linguistics department of the University of Vienna, Austria.

Nov 2012 – Jun 2013 Visiting fellow, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland. Research for the PhD-Thesis under the supervision of Prof. David Stifter. Participation in seminars on Old Irish held by Prof. David Stifter at NUIM and Prof. Liam Breatnach at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Sep 2010 – Oct 2012 Research fellow, Department for Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Sole research fellow for the project “Wörterbuch der altirischen Priscianglossen (Dictionary of the Old Irish Priscian glosses)” (P 22859) – see above.

2006 – 2011 Head of documentation, Research fellow, Tutor.
I participated in different archaeological projects, e.g., for the Department for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (University of Vienna) in Sicily, the Department for Prehistory and Early History (University of Vienna) and the Department for History of Arts and Archeology (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne) in France, and the Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut.

Teaching experience

Feb 2024 Master Class “Digital Scholarly Editing” organisiert vom Institut für
Dokumentologie und Editorik an der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.

Oct 2023 – Jan 2024 Ringvorlesung “Dazzling Data: Digital Humanities in der Mediävistik und Frühneuzeitforschung” at the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit at Universität Salzburg.

Feb – Jun 2023 Teaching the course “Einführung in das Alt-Irische” at the Institut für Antike at University of Graz.

Feb – Jun 2022 Teaching the course “ ‘… qui ipsorum linguae Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur’ Einführung in die keltische Kultur und Sprache” at the Institut für Antike at University of Graz.

Sep 2016 – May 2017 Teaching the course “Readings from Early Irish Literature 1+2” at the department of Early Irish of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

Sep 2015 – May 2016 Teaching the course “Readings from Early Irish Literature 1+2” at the department of Early Irish of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

Nov 2014 – Dec 2014 Teaching the course “Soziolinguistik der keltischen Sprachen – Ulster-Scots and the Scots in Ulster: An Introduction to Language, History and Culture” (together with Dr. Dieter Reinisch) at the linguistics department of the University of Vienna, Austria.

Oct 2013 – Feb 2014
Teaching the course “Irisch-Britannischer Kontakt im Mittelalter: Ein
kulturwissenschaflicher Ansatz” (together with Dr. Aaron Griffith) at the
linguistics department of the University of Vienna, Austria.

Committee member for conferences
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2022–2024 Convenor of the Lunchtime Lectures series at Institut Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of
Graz, Austria.

2023, May 5 Editing Glosses in the 21th century University of Graz, Austria.

2022, Sep 13–16 TEI2022: 22th annual Conference and Member’s Meeting of the Text Encoding Iniative Consortium (TEI) Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Member of the programme committee.

2021, May 13–15 Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World
Maynooth University, Ireland.

from 2018 to 2020 Convenor of the Early Irish and Celtic Studies Research Seminar series at Maynooth University’s Department of Early Irish.

2018, Sep 5–9 Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society 2018
Maynooth University, Ireland.

2018, Sep 4–5 10th Celtic Linguistics Conference Maynooth University, Ireland.

2017, Jun 29 – Jul 1 31st Irish Conference for Medievalists Maynooth University, Ireland.

Publications

Please find a list of my publications here: https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/bernhard.bauer/publikationen/

Presentations

Please find a list of my presentations here: https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/bernhard.bauer/praesentationen/