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Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature – UCL

The successful candidate will be expected to teach on the undergraduate Modern Literature I (1900-1945) course, and to contribute to the MA English: Issues in Modern Culture programme and the following first-year undergraduate courses: Narrative Texts, Criticism and Theory, and Intellectual and Cultural Sources. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to provide one-to-one tutorials to undergraduate students and to undertake the normal duties of teaching administration and the provision of pastoral care and support to tutorial students.

The position is for a 7-month period from 15 September 2014 to 14 April 2015.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate scholarship in 20th-Century British and American literature and have a PhD in English, either gained or submitted by the start of the appointment. They must also have previous experience of teaching at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

To access further details about the position and how to apply please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact the Departmental Administrator, Stephen Cadywold, s.cadywold@ucl.ac.uk  , 020 7679 3135.

Latest time for the submission of applications: 5.00 p.m.

Interview Date: Week commencing 30 June 2014

UCL Taking Action for Equality

 

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIU591/teaching-fellow-in-twentieth-century-british-and-american-literature/

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Stipendiary Lectureship in English – Oxford

St Hugh’s College, Oxford
Stipendiary Lectureship in English
 
St Hugh’s College proposes to appoint a seven-hour Stipendiary Lecturer in English,specialising in the modern and/or Victorian period, with effect from 1 October 2014 until 30 September 2016. This appointment is to fulfil teaching needs arising from a period of academic leave granted to a current post holder, and is non-renewable.
 
The Lecturer will be expected to teach undergraduates (in tutorials and classes) for seven hours each week averaged over the three terms (twenty-four weeks) of each academic year. In addition, the Lecturer will be expected to deliver eight lectures per academic year in the Faculty of English in the modern and/or Victorian period. 
 
The Lecturer will be expected to play a full role in the running of English and its joint schools in the College, including arranging tuition, participating fully in the admissions process, setting and marking college examinations, and assisting with the pastoral care of undergraduates.

Further details are available on the College website. The closing date for applications is Noon on Friday 27 June 2014.
 
St Hugh’s College, Oxford is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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BAMS AGM 27/06/14

The next BAMS AGM will be taking place on Friday 27th June 12.30-1.30pm, at the Modernism Now! conference at the IES, Senate House London. All BAMS members are encouraged to attend.
For any issues to raise or agenda items please notify:
Dr Alex Goody
Secretary, British Association for Modernist Studies
agoody@brookes.ac.uk

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Modernism Now! – provisional programme

The provisional programme for the international BAMS conference 2014 – Modernism Now! – is available below:

Modernism Now! – provisional programme

Poster: Modernism Now!

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CFP – Elizabeth Bishop’s Questions of Travel: Fifty Years After – 25-27 June 2015, Sheffield, UK

http://elizabethbishopat50.wordpress.com

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Marxism in Culture Seminar – 9 May, Senate House

Marxism in Culture Seminar – Summer Term 2014
Friday 9 May, 17.30-19.30
The Court Room (Senate House, Malet Street)

Book Presentation/Roundtable Discussion:
Nick Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald (from Warwick Research Collective)
 
Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Liverpool University Press; forthcoming)
 
Our ambition in this forthcoming book is to resituate the problem of ‘world literature’, considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in Marxist sociology and political economy and continues to stimulate debate across the social sciences.  But the cultural aspects of Trotsky’s initiating formulation concerning the ‘amalgam of archaic with more contemporary forms’ has received less attention, even as what it highlights draws attention to a central – perhaps the central – arc or trajectory of modern(ist) production in literature and the other arts worldwide; and this aesthetic dynamic is, in turn, complexly related to histories and conceptions of social and political practice. It is in the conjuncture of combined and uneven development, on the one hand, and the recently interrogated and expanded categories of ‘world literature’ and ‘modernism’, on the other, that our project looks for its specific contours. All three of these terms, it seems to us, need to be thought together.
 
Warwick Research Collective (Sharae Deckard, Nick Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald, Pablo Mukherjee, Benita Parry, Stephen Shapiro)
 
www.warwick.ac.uk/wrec
 
Nick Lawrence: Nick works on American literature and culture of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries; critical theory, mainly of the Frankfurt School; world-literature as world-ecology; and modernist and contemporary poetry and poetics. Among his publications are How to Read Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (Pluto, forthcoming) and North American Language Poetries, 1965–2000 (Casa de Letras, 2005). Among his current projects is a study of mid-twentieth century poetic internationalism, United Nations Literature.
 
Neil Lazarus: Neil has published Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (Yale, 1990); Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (CUP, 1999); Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (CUP, 2002); The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (CUP, 2004); and The Postcolonial Unconscious (CUP, 2011), as well as numerous essays in such journals as Cultural Critique, Diaspora, differences, New Formations, Race & Class, Research in African Literatures, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Textual Practice.
 
Graeme Macdonald: Graeme’s research interests include modern and contemporary Scottish and British devolutionary culture; resource culture and petrofiction; naturalist fiction and theory; and science fiction and ecocriticism. He is editor of Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature (EUP 2011) and Post Theory: New Directions in Criticism (EUP, 1999). He is working on a study of oil and world fiction.
 
www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/132
www.marxisminculture.org

ALL WELCOME!
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Science is Fiction: The films of Jean Painlevé

Science is Fiction: The films of Jean Painlevé

 

Prof. Dawn Ades CBE FBA (Art History, Essex) will introduce a screening of a selection of Jean Painleve’s short nature films, followed by a roundtable discussion. Confirmed roundtable speakers are Prof. Dawn Ades (Essex), Dr. Will Abberley (English) and Dr. Omar W. Nasim (History).

 

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 5.15-7pm

Lecture Room 6, New College

 

All welcome. Wine and soft drinks will be served.

Convenors: Dr. Lee-Von Kim (lee-von.kim@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) and Dr. Nicole Sierra (nicole.sierra@ell.ox.ac.uk)

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London Modernism Seminar – May 10

The final London Modernism Seminar of this academic year will take place on Saturday May 10, 2014 in Senate House, room G37, 11:00-13:00. The topic is Modernism and Ethics and we’re very pleased to welcome as speakers Shane Weller and Iain Bailey. Their titles are:
Shane Weller (Kent), ‘The Ethics of Late Modernism’
Iain Bailey (Manchester), ‘Ern Malley and Affirmative Culture’
Please see below for abstracts and biographies of the speakers. The seminar is open to everyone interested in modernism.
Shane Weller, ‘The Ethics of Late Modernism’
Far from having exclusively aesthetic implications, late modernism’s response to what it takes to be the catastrophic implications of modernity is highly relevant for any critique of the contemporary world and its institutions, shaped as that world is by the globalization of the Enlightenment project and the consequent integration of various forms of alterity, at once political, cultural, ethnic and religious. Taking the work of Samuel Beckett as my primary case study, I argue in this paper for a conception of late modernism as primarily a post-Second World War phenomenon characterized by what I describe as an ‘anethical’ attitude, which is reflected in a particular approach towards language.
Biographical Note
Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature, Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature, and Head of the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent. His publications include Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (2008), and Modernism and Nihilism (2011).
Iain Bailey, ‘Ern Malley and Affirmative Culture’
This paper takes as its point of departure the Ern Malley affair, a literary hoax perpetrated on the editors of an Australian literary journal in 1944. Its principal focus will be on the rhetorical work that follows in the wake of the poems’ publication and seeks to account for them, either in enjoyment of the hoax itself or to recuperate for the poems an independent aesthetic value. The paper will look at the way aesthetic and ethical judgments run together in these efforts; more specifically, it will examine the different ways in which they accord value to rationalisation, not only by negotiating with questions about intention, but also in foregrounding the problem of tone.
 
Iain Bailey is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. He has published essays on Samuel Beckett, intertextuality, tone and the archive; his book, Samuel Beckett and the Bible, was published by Bloomsbury earlier this year. With Ben Ware, he is co-organising ‘Modernism and the Moral Life’, a 1-day symposium in Manchester on 30 May.
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Modernist Criticisms – programme announced

http://modernistcriticismsconference.wordpress.com/

Programme

09.30 – 10.00 Registration & Welcome: Natalie Wright
10.00-11.15 Panel 1: Conceptions of Criticism 

Andrew Atherton (University of Kent): The Two Eliots: Effort and Passivity in the Critical Prose of T. S. Eliot

Mimi Winick (Rutgers University): ‘On that bridge, emotionally, I halt’: Jane Harrison’s Ritual Scholarship

Michael Jolliffe (University of Leicester): ‘Gas Bombs and Smoke Screens’: The Collateral Damage of Emanuel Carnevali’s Cultural Criticism
11.30-12.45 Panel 2: Criticism and Pedagogy 

George Potts (University College London): The ‘self-explanatory or critical poet’: Eliot, Empson and Poetic Notation

Benjamin Poore (Queen Mary, University of London): Why Leonard Bast had to be Killed

Natalie Wright (University of Cambridge): ‘scientific, experimental, and observational work’: Edith Morley’s Professorial Criticism
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.00 Panel 3: Modernist Critical Contexts 

Maciej Jakubowiak (Jagiellonian University): A Question of the Law: Modernist Discussions on Copyright

Alexandra Lyons (University College London): ‘Age of Experiment’: Katherine Mansfield’s Work in The Athenaeum

David Miller (Birkbeck University): ‘Uncreativity’ and the Gendered Production of Art in Olive Moore’s The Apple is Bitten Again (Self-Portrait) (1934)
15.15-16.30 Panel 4: Alternative Critical Modes 

Sarah Barnsley (Goldsmiths, University of London): Mary Barnard and Ezra Pound: A Critical Correspondence

John Dunn (Queen Mary, University of London): The ‘Night’ and ‘Day’ of Literary Criticism in Maurice Blanchot’s Thomas the Obscure

Katarzyna Trzeciak (Jagiellonian University): Making Radical Criticism by Sculptural Concepts: T. E. Hulme and his Influence on Imagists and Vorticists
16.45-18.00 Keynote: Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway, University of London):Reframing Modernism after 1926: Hammersmith Modernism and its Manifestos
18.00-19.00 Drinks Reception

You can register to attend using our booking form. Entry is £10 (£5 students).

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Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920

Registration is Open! 

 

The University of Kent is hosting a one-day symposium on 19th May 2014, entitled‘Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920′.

The symposium is being organised by Dr Michael J. Collins (University of Kent) and it will include Plenary Lectures byProfessors Nancy Bentley (University of Pennsylvania)and Brad Evans (Rutgers, New Jersey). It will attempt to unite literary studies and print culture with intellectual history, anthropology, the history of science and visual culture studies in order to explore how mainstream media related to emergent social-scientific disciplines in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era United States.
To register for Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920 click here.
Full Programme
  • 9.00 – 9.30 Registration
  • 9.30 – 9.15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • 9.15 – 10.45 Keynote Lecture – Nancy Bentley UPENN
  • 10.45 -11.00 Coffee
  • 11- 12.30 Panel 1: Documenting Difference and The Making of American Modernity
“Cultural Encounters in The Southwest: George Wharton James and the American Indian” – Martin Padget, (Aberystwyth University)
“At Home With…”Celebrity Interviewing as Ethnography in the Gilded Age” – Rebecca Roach (New College, Oxford)
“Harlem’s Magician: Charles S. Johnson and the Ironies of Urban Race Relations from Riot to Renaissance” – Cheryl Hudson (Vanderbilt University)
  • 12.30 – 1.30: Buffet Lunch
  • 1.30 – 3.00 Panel 2: Memorialisation and Material Culture – Ethnography on Display
“Ethnography and the Progressive Era: The ‘Memorial’ to the American Indian” –Danielle A. Fleming (University of Glasgow)
“To Amuse as Well as to Instruct: The Display of Humans at America’s Western World’s Fairs, 1894-1914” – Emily Trafford (University of Liverpool)
“Curious Objects: The Still-Life Paintings and Amateur Ethnography of William Harnett” – Nika Elder (Princeton University)
  • 3.00 – 3.15 Coffee
  • 3.15 – 4.45 Panel 3: Performance and Parody in the Ethnographic Imagination
“The Three R’s of Show Biz – Gags, Singing and a Time Step! The Marx Brothers Go to School” – Rick DesRochers (Long Island University)
“Black Ice: Blackface, Plantation Songs and the Myth of Old Dixie During Polar Exploration” – Tomek Mossakowski (King’s College, London)
  • 4.45 – 6.30 Drinks and Canapes
  • 6.30 – Film Screening and Q&A
Screening of ‘In the Land of the Headhunters’ with Introduction and Q&A by Brad Evans (Gulbenkian Cinema)
Based on recent archival research, in 2008 a collaborative team led by Aaron Glass (now at the Bard Graduate Center), Brad Evans (Rutgers), and Andrea Sanborn (of the U’mista Cultural Centre in BC) oversaw a new restoration of the film that returned the film’s original title, title cards, long-missing footage, color tinting, initial publicity graphics, and original musical score—now thought to be the earliest extant original feature-length film score in America. http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu/
Sponsored by The School of English, Centre for American Studies, and Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities