Dear Colleagues,

The Faculty is advertising a new Associate Professorship in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Irish Literature, in association with Hertford College, to start on 1 October 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter. The salary range is £43,745 to £58,739 p.a. Please feel free to forward this vacancy to anyone who might be interested.
The appointed person will be required to provide thirty-six lectures per year or equivalent (in lectures and classes) for the English Faculty; to provide, for every week of full term, six hours per week of tutorial teaching or equivalent for the College; and to undertake examining and graduate supervision when requested. The successful candidate will have a doctorate in a relevant field, an excellent record in teaching, research and published scholarship in Irish literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and will be able to supervise and examine graduates in this field. The College requirements for teaching are for small-group and tutorial teaching from 1830-present. The appointed person will also be expected to contribute to administration in the Faculty and the College.
Further information (including details about how to apply) can be obtained from http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/current-vacancies-0.
The closing date for applications is 12.00 pm (noon) on Friday 28th February 2014.
Best wishes
Lindsay

Dr Lindsay Rudge
Head of Administration and Finance

Faculty of English Language and Literature
St Cross Building
Manor Road
Oxford
OX1 3UL

01865 (2)71096
Lindsay.rudge@ell.ox.ac.uk

Applications are invited for a Programme Co-ordinator for the Research Programme in Comparative Criticism and Translation. This is an eight month fixed-term post financed by the John Fell OUP Research Fund, starting on 1 February 2014 and finishing on 30 September 2014. This post is a part-time appointment (30% FTE) and the salary is £29,541 p.a (pro rata).

This post will suit a postdoctoral researcher working on comparative topics.

Duties will include:

· Co-ordinating research events, contacting speakers, arranging rooms, travel, publicity etc.

· Editing and writing content for the new website, including literature reviews, online discussions and podcasts.

· Contributing to the intellectual content of the Programme’s annual conference in September and taking the lead role in its organisation, including managing the budget.

· Helping in the preparation of external grant applications.

· Managing the Programme’s communications both within and beyond Oxford.

· Contributing to the intellectual direction of the Programme.

Please send a CV and letter outlining your suitability to the post to rachael.sanders@ell.ox.ac.uk by 12.00 midday on Friday 17 January 2014.

Information about the Research Programme in Comparative Criticism and Translation can be found at http://www.oxfordcomparativeliterature.com. The Programme is supported by the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, St Anne’s College, and the John Fell OUP Research Fund.

Danowski’s synoptic ambition—to collect literally all poetry in English published in the twentieth century, including the independent journals, short-run chapbooks and broadsides that gave Modernism its distinctive energy—has created an opportunity to examine the materials out of which our accounts of the century – both the longstanding ones and the most recent efforts to revise them—have been made, but without the influence of a shaping hand.

The “B-Side Modernism” fellowship takes the shapelessness of “everything,” as defined by the Danowski collection, as a provocation to investigate the divergences between canonical accounts of Modernism in poetry, music, philosophy and art, and to explore the many roads not taken, whether they manifest in the unedited arc of a career, in the one-off achievement, or the unclassified ephemera of a moment. Our solicitation to potential fellows: What else might Modernism have been?

The fellowship provides funding for travel and research in the collection, and offers an opportunity for publication in nonsite.org and for participation in the B-Side conference in Atlanta in January 2014.

Relevant Dates

Dec 20, 2013: Proposal deadline
July 1, 2014: Deadline for fellows to submit their list of archive materials and abstract of proposed work on them
September 1, 2014: Deadline for fellows to submit their papers
January 23-24, 2015: B-side conference in Atlanta, GA

Expectations

A. Fellows are expected to complete their visit having selected 10-15 texts. Some of these should be appropriate for inclusion in an online “B-Side playlist,” an exhibition consisting of electronic images of texts and excerpts from the fellows’ selections. This “playlist” will be part of a special “B-Side” feature on nonsite.org, slated for late 2014.

B. Fellows are expected to develop a publishable article based on texts they have selected and/or their work with the Danowski Library during the Fellowship visit. Ideally, the article will be included in the late 2014 special feature. Publication is subject to nonsite.org editorial board review and approval.

Proposal

The full research proposal must include the following:

1) Your name and current contact information (mailing address, telephone number, email address).

2) A concise summary of the proposed research (250 words).

3) A full project statement for the proposed research (1000-1500 words).

We are aware that research plans might change once scholars have access to the collection, so while we need to see a plan at this stage, applicants should be assured that we are also open to discovery. The project statement should:

• define the scope of the research (e.g. time period, author or set of authors, journal run, or a specific set of aesthetic tendencies or commitments) as well as the rationale for this scope.
• situate the research in the context of current work being done on poetry within the framework of modernism.
• explain the role this research will play in helping to create a “B-Side” playlist and generating contribution to a special “Modernism: The B-Side” feature issue.
• explain your qualifications for undertaking this research.

4) A short bibliography of relevant holdings in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library (no more than 10 items). Explore the catalogued holdings of the Danowski Library at discoverE. Enter “danowski” on the main search page. Click on “Raymond Danowski Poetry Library collection” to get the entry for the collection. Then click on the Author entry, “Raymond Danowski collector” to get a current list of catalogued holdings. Once in the list of holdings, you can further narrow your search by selecting date limitations under “Publication Date” in the menu at the left margin.

5) Proposed dates of visit to the collection. Fellows should plan to visit the collection for 4-5 consecutive days (spending four nights) with a start date between January 15, 2014 and May 15, 2014. As you consider these dates, bear in mind that the research will ideally culminate in an article for a special “B-Side Modernism” feature on nonsite set to launch in November, 2014. Final drafts of articles are due by no later than October 1, 2014; travel to the collection should be planned accordingly.

6) A current curriculum vitae with at least three references.

Please submit proposals as a single PDF file via the nonsite.org submission manager at https://nonsite.submittable.com/submit. Select the category “B-Side/Danowski Fellowship.” Do not submit under “Poetry” or “Articles and Essays.”

Job Description

Applications are invited for a temporary Lectureship in Modern Literature and Gender in the Department of English and Humanities. The post replaces Dr Heike Bauer who is taking up an AHRC fellowship.

You will be involved in our lively research community and will make a contribution to the Department’s research culture. You will contribute to the delivery of BA programmes, primarily the interdisciplinary BA Arts and Humanities, including sole responsibility for the option modules ‘Sexuality & Modernity: Reading across Cultures’ and ‘Narratives of the Body’, as well as contributing to core modules; will convene and teach the MA option module ‘Twenty-First-Century Feminist Fiction and the World in Crisis’, offered jointly to the taught MA programmes in Modern and Contemporary Literature, and in Critical and Cultural Studies, as well as contributing to core modules and to dissertation supervision; and may contribute to training and research skills sessions for research students. You will participate appropriately in departmental administration.

Candidate Requirements

You should have a good first degree and have completed a PhD in a relevant subject area, and show evidence of published research. Teaching experience at postgraduate degree level is desirable, as is administrative experience. Some expertise in late-Victorian literature and culture will be an advantage.

For further details, see: http://jobs.bbk.ac.uk/fe/tpl_birkbeckcollege01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=51720%2C8725362386&key=73343237&c=596523870256&pagestamp=setxtsgfvyesvlnqkb

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER: FOUR YEARS FIXED-TERM, FULL-TIME.

Applications are invited for a research assistantship, which will be part of a major research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The post is available from 2 January 2014 for a fixed term until 31 December 2017.

The Project: ‘Make Do and Mend’ – A Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information (MOI), 1939-45

The AHRC research grant will support a four-year project based at the Institute of English Studies, a member institute of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. The project will be led by Professor Simon Eliot of the Institute of English Studies as principal investigator, with Paul Vetch of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London as co-principal investigator. ‘Make Do and Mend’ is in partnership with the National Archives at Kew, and will work closely with the Imperial War Museum, the Mass Observation Archives at Sussex University, and with the BBC archives at Caversham.

The ground-breaking project aims to address a glaring gap in the history of 20th century Britain. Despite its immortalisation as ‘The Ministry of Truth’ by George Orwell in his novel 1984 and its important role as the public information authority and publicity agent of the British government during the Second World War, relatively little scholarly research has been done on the Ministry of Information.

The project will address some of the historical and cultural problems raised by the MOI by using the discipline of publishing history which, for the first time, will be applied systematically to government institutions.

The Project will pursue the following main objectives:
•To explore the MOI as a Publishing Enterprise from 1939 to 1945.
•To investigate the MOI as a Communications Network.
•To study the MOI as a social, political, and cultural institution by assessing its impact on the broader contexts in which it operated.

The project will analyse an extensive array of primary resources and plans to interview as many as possible of those whose lives and opinions were in some way affected by the Ministry’s output. Much of the material collected will be made publicly available in the form of a virtual museum and archive. A public exhibition is also planned.

Further information regarding the Make Do and Mend Project can be found here: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/research/ministry-information

Further Information:

To apply for this post, please click on the Apply button below. Please submit a full CV and a cover letter before the closing date on Sunday, 24 November 2013.

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 2nd December 2013.

For more information, visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHO926/postdoctoral-fellowship-on-the-moi-project/

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13878

The University of Birmingham wishes to appoint TWO Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in English Literature with teaching and research interests in any area of British Literature after 1900 and/or world literatures in English. The posts will commence on 1st September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. We seek individuals who will make an outstanding contribution to the research profile of the Division of English Literature and Creative Writing, and will be able to teach across a wide range of relevant modules. It could be an advantage if one of the appointees complements our strengths in research and teaching in new interdisciplinary or digital humanities.

Closing date: 7 May 2013

A full job description is available in PDF format: http://www.download.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/jd/51042.pdf

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Cultural Studies

Birkbeck College, University of London -Department of English and Humanities