The Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge has just advertised two permanent lectureships in Literature and the Material Text.
The first is pre-1500, the second post-1500. The deadline for applications is 26 April.
For further details please see: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/
Visual Forms in the Age of Shakespeare
A short residential course for doctoral students
University of Agder, Norway, 23-27 May
Increasingly, critical readings of the plays and poems have explored their location within, around and in debate with visual structures of their age. Discussions of structure, imagery, character construction and direct allusion have become frequent, and the major editions of the plays now often include images from the period as part of their introductions. Finding a balance between the use of such forms as adjuncts to critical and theoretical analysis amd preserving their own identities is a major, yet often unstated, issue in thinking of this kind.
This short residential course brings together some leading figures in the discussion of visual forms of the period (see below), both to discuss the major genres with which the plays and poems might be said to interact and to offer their own guidance to doctoral students working in the field.
The main bulk of the meeting will be given over to the close discussion of short pieces – parts of chapters, overall thesis summaries, statements of critical positions, or other kinds of writing on the topic. In this way, the meeting will operate as a genuine exchange of ideas as well as a means of offering advice and comment for work currently being produced.
The meeting will begin with dinner on the evening of the 23rd, continue with three full days of lectures and discussions, and end after breakfast on the 27th. We envisage a total attendance of around 15 doctoral students.
A small number of bursaries will be available to cover the cost of accommodation, while students will be expected to fund their travel costs from the institutions at which they are registered.
Those interested in attending should send, by email to Professor Stuart Sillars (stuart.sillars@if.uib.no) no later than 31 March*:
Those selected for bursaries will be notified as soon as possible after receipt of their proposals. Details of the hotel, the University and the timetable will follow at a later stage.
*Please note the application deadline has been extended through April, and there is still time to apply.
The National Library of Australia offers annual fellowships to established researchers and writers. Established by the Council of the National Library of Australia in 1983 as the National Library Fellowships, the first Fellows commenced their research at the Library in 1984. The fellowships were renamed in honour of Sir Harold White CBE (1905-1992), the first National Librarian, in 1985. The fellowships scheme aims to promote the Library as a centre of scholarly activity and research, encourage scholarly and literary use of the Library’s collections and production of publications arising from that scholarship, and to promote the Library’s rich and varied collections. Four to seven fellowships, of periods from three to six months, are awarded annually.
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