Come join our team!
Now that the Antigone project has been live for three years we are very pleased to have both the financial resources and the physical office space to expand the team in important directions. Over the next few months we will be advertising a wide range of vacancies, both salaried and volunteer positions, for which we are pleased to invite applications from anyone who thinks they could help us deliver the Antigone mission.
For any of the positions listed below, all interested parties should send a cover letter and brief CV to employment@antigonejournal.com, with the relevant job title in the email subject line. Deadline for applications is the final day of April (30th) and we will endeavour to progress to a shortlist as soon as possible.
Current Vacancies
SOCIAL MEDIA BRAND AMBASSADOR
Classical studies in the Anglosphere has been affected by a severe lack of confidence about what the discipline should be doing and why, a regrettable situation that has only been compounded by a plethora of low-readership Substack accounts and single-output video journals. To help enhance the vitality of our social media presence, we invite applicants who have the lived experience of crafting highly critical sub-tweets on pseudonymous accounts and/or screaming into the void in desperation for a slightly larger audience. We encourage applicants to speak Truth to Power, preferably from tenured positions at institutions so systemically and irredeemably corrupt that one can never resign from them. Successful candidates will know that, in order to play well with the complacent echo chambers of social media, our articles need to be trivialised, politicised, and made artifically binary so that people either love them or hate them.
We welcome proposals of 6,000 words or more to be posted behind subscription walls on private blog pages, and/or publicised via low-engagement social-media accounts. A competitive salary will be provided by benefits in kind: either 500 blind Retweets, or 15,000 followers from porn bots / accounts with pseuds in bio.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES OUTREACH-‘N’-ENGAGEMENT TSAR
Our brave and bold new research project “The Medium is the Memory” was recently approved for seven years’ funding by a generous grant from the British Academy, via the Department of Media, Sport, Enterprise, and Licence-Fee Consumption. Successful applicants will be tasked with transferring a uniquely interesting data set (“the Internet”) into a variety of legacy media including (but not limited to) paper, parchment, papyrus, and Nilotic clay, using a range of technological devices from baked styluses to Conté crayons. In due course, faithful digital reproductions of these physical materials will be made available for viewing and consultation by the general public (on MiniDisc, Blackberry, and Tamagotchi) to ensure their preservation once the originals are destroyed in accordance with Health and Safety legislation.
In lieu of the legal minimum wage, an expenses account will be provided in the tangible form of a brown-bag lunch. We regret that dietary restrictions cannot be taken into account, unless they accord with the Vindolanda Protocol, as mandated by Hadrian’s Stone Wall.
Neither Greek nor Latin will be required.
CHIEF IMPACT ASSESSOR
The Antigone editorial team is looking for a self-confident, ambitious and doggedly dogmatic administrator to impose industry best practice within the burgeoning field of Impact™ Assessment. We are acutely conscious that times have changed: millions of members of the public may read and share our articles about the Classics, but that proves nothing more than that millions of members of the public want to read and share our articles about the Classics. Educating and entertaining the public is all well and good, but what about the people that really matter? A talented – and accredited – Impact Assessor will help Antigone achieve the recognised goals of bona fide societal influence: eliciting a positive comment from an assistant professor in front of their colleagues; achieving a social media ‘follow’ from one of the more active meme-sharing accounts; venturing into dubiously-priced branded merchandise, employing an overpaid team of vlogging influencers, and securing the longed-for shot of a third-tier celebrity entering the club in Antigone gaiters and/or garters.
Salary €165 per diem, plus liquid expenses; generous book allowance ($650 / three titles per annum); timeshare in the Villa Maggiore dell’Antigone, Thurso (Feb/Nov); membership (Extraordinary Overseas §2b) of the Garrick Club.
DIVERSITIES & INCLUSIONS OFFICERS(+)
Antigone Journal is not – and never will be – complacent. To this end we invite applications for the exciting new role(s?) of Diversities and Inclusions Officers. As active participants in the #pluralproud movement, we regard nothing as more horribly exclusive than singular nouns. The successful candidate(s) will deliver an exciting vision of how they will attract more submissions from alarmingly under-represented demographic groups in our current crop of writers, such as the shrill, hectoring, sanctimonious, and narcissistic. Candidates with a passion for being unprofessional, unscrupulous, indiscreet and aggressively confrontational are particularly sought after. We are desperate to hear from those with expertise in the unfairly maligned but highly valuable arts of cancellation, defamation, anonymous ranting, and trial by social media. If you regard intellectual life as something tantamount to low-quality tabloid journalism, we really do want to hear from you. Ideally by quote-tweet.
While the salary is theoretically negotiable by lawsuit, we guarantee that you will never be quite satisfied by our comprehensive benefits package.
