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Oxford: Stipendiary Lectureship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature

University of Oxford

Stipendiary Lectureship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature

University of Oxford – Keble College

The college proposes to elect a Stipendiary Lecturer in English with effect from 1 October 2015 until 30 June 2016. This is a fixed-term, non-renewable appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute teaching on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature (Papers 3 and 4 of Preliminary Examinations), and to contribute teaching towards the Introduction to English Language and Literature (Paper 1 of Preliminary Examinations). They will give 6 hours of tutorials per week. An ability to teach prose fiction across both nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be particularly desirable. In addition, the person appointed will be required to assist with the routine administration and organization of teaching in this area, undergraduate admissions, and the pastoral care of students. Candidates should have completed, or be near to completing, a doctorate and should be able to demonstrate some relevant teaching experience.

The basic stipend will be pro rata according to the Senior Tutors’ Committee recommended scale for Stipendiary Lecturers from £12,757 to £14,348 (current rates) according to experience.  Contributory membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme is available. The Lecturer will be entitled to 6 free meals per week at Common Table.  There is an academic allowance of £321.

Informal enquiries about this post may be made to Dr Matthew Bevis (e-mail:mathew.bevis@keble.ox.ac.uk). Further particulars are available from the Senior Tutor, Keble College, Oxford OX1 3PG (ali.rogers@keble.ox.ac.uk) or at www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/vacancies/.

Applications should reach the Senior Tutor at the address above not later than 12 noon Thursday 18 June 2015. They should contain brief particulars of the candidate, including a summary of career and details of education, degrees and other qualifications; experience in teaching, research or other employment; research in progress or planned; details of publications, prizes or awards (if any); and the names and addresses of two referees who can speak with detailed knowledge about the candidate. Candidates should also ask their referees to write directly to the Senior Tutor by the same date.  It is anticipated that interviews will be held in the week beginning 6 July.

Keble College is an Equal Opportunities employer committed to excellence in research and teaching.

Apply

Via Jobs.ac.uk: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALG447/stipendiary-lectureship-in-nineteenth-and-twentieth-century-english-literature/

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Funded PhD Studentship: Transnational Modernisms

Funded PhD Studentship in Transnational Modernisms, Leeds Trinity University

 

We seek PhD proposals that focus primarily on Anglophone and/or Francophone modernist literature, but which move beyond the confines of ‘national’ literary study to examine the ways in which modernist literature questions those very boundaries. We would particularly welcome projects that are sensitive to the specifically linguistic dimensions of transnational modernism. Possible areas of focus might include:

 

  • Multilingualism in modernist literary texts
  • The work of modernist writers as translators, and the impact of this on their own creative outputs
  • The impact of transnational networks and exchange (e.g. travel, translation, collaboration) on modernist writing
  • Representations of cosmopolitans and cosmopolitanism; cosmopolitanism as aesthetic principle
  • Networks and exchanges between ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’ of modernism

The project will be co-supervised by a member of staff at the University of Leeds Centre for World Literatures.

The award will include a fee waiver (up to the value of EU/Home rate) plus an annual tax-free stipend equivalent to the standard Research Council rate (£14,057 for 2015–16). The studentship may be available as Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) position for suitably qualified candidates. GTAs will complete a PhD (part-time) and undertake teaching or other relevant duties according to the subject area. In addition to a fee waiver and stipend, the GTA award will also include an annual salary of £4,137.

Closing Date: 9.00am on 22nd June

Informal enquiries: Juliette Taylor-Batty, j.taylor-batty@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Further information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALE945/phd-studentships/

 

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CFP Deadline Reminder – ‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel

Please find attached a Call for Papers for the ninth annual postgraduate workshop run by the Landscape, Space, Place Research Group at the University of Nottingham.

‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel

Monday 22nd June 2015

University of Nottingham

Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)

To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. Travel can create different spatial, bodily, and object identities, as (un)familiar places and landscapes are negotiated, and borders and boundaries are crossed and re-crossed. It can have multiple implications and legacies and can be represented and documented in diverse, sometimes surprising, ways.

This workshop aims to emphasise and explore the richness of travel in its multivalent forms, from antiquity to modernity and beyond. We will consider travel in relation to social, political, cultural, and environmental forces, as we ask how it is interpreted across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Papers are invited on – but are by no means limited to – the following themes:

  • The narration and representation of travel
  • Journeying in/through the landscape
  • Spatial identity and place
  • Travel and temporality
  • Modes and methods of transport
  • Home, abroad, belonging, displacement
  • Departures and arrivals
  • Origins, destinations, and the in-between
  • Crossing borders and boundaries
  • The implications and legacies of travel

This is a one-day, interdisciplinary workshop that seeks to offer postgraduate students an opportunity to present related work at any stage of their research within a friendly, supportive and stimulating environment. It is the ninth annual postgraduate workshop to be run by the Landscape, Space, Place Research Group and hosted by the Schools of English and Geography at the University of Nottingham.

We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for 20 minute papers from all current postgraduate students. Please send, along with a short biography, to lsp.pgworkshop@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday 8th May 2015.

Organising Committee:  Alexander Harby, Alice Insley, Hollie Johnson, Mark Lambert, Xiaofan Xu & Emma Zimmerman

Further details can be found in the attached CFP.

Visit the LSPRG website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/lsprg/index.aspx

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CFP: Critiquing Criticism: From the Ancient to the Digital

Deadline: 24th April 2015

Contributions are now invited for the 2015 volume of the MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, an international, refereed online journal aimed at postgraduate and early-career researchers.

Acts of criticism are all-pervasive in our online culture: through social media, blogs, and comments sections we author critiques, rating and disseminating with ‘likes’ and ‘shares’.   Boundaries are blurred and redefined by the ever-increasing presence of online academic journals and magazines, the popularity of academically-informed cultural commentary online, and a growing demand for university departments to engage with the Digital Humanities. As new and aspiring academic critics we must critique our own changing field, finding our place within it; an appraisal of criticism itself forms thus a crucial area for investigation.

Drawing comparisons between various acts of criticism raises questions of the differing and developing aims, roles, and methods of critical texts: should criticism judge, describe, translate, or interpret? And if interpretation is the critic’s task, then to what extent is criticism creative? How do the critic and the author interact, and what responsibilities do critics have to readers? Can fruitful links be drawn between the activity of online criticism, the reviews of critics in the media, and academic criticism?

Working Papers invites articles addressing and further exploring these questions and concerns across the humanities, treating works of criticism as primary texts. Suggested themes include, but are in no way limited to:

·         Changing aims, roles, and methods of criticism

·         Academic criticism vs popular readings vs newspaper critics

·         Reception studies

·         Digital Humanities

·         Criticism online – academic journals and magazines, blogs, comments, trolling

·         Literature as criticism, and criticism as literature; criticism as a creative act

·         The artist as critic, or critic as artist

·         The interaction of criticism and the text or work it critiques

·         The ethics and/or politics of criticism

·         Critical theory and theoretical criticism

·         Criticism or theory as represented within literary works

·         Book prizes, writing prizes, arts prizes

·         The figure of the critic

Abstracts, in English, of 300-500 words in length are invited from any field in the ‘modern humanities’, as defined as the modern and medieval languages, literatures, and cultures of Europe, including English and the Slavonic languages, and the cultures of the European diaspora. History, library studies, education and pedagogical subjects, and the medical application of linguistics are excluded.

Proposals and informal enquiries should be directed to the editors at postgrads@mhra.org.uk by 24th April 2015. Those selected for further consideration will be required to produce their article, of no more than 4000 words, by mid-July 2015. These articles will then undergo peer review, and the volume will be published online at the end of the year.

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LitVisCult: Dr Catherine Gander on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings (9 April)

The next session of the Literature and Visual Cultures Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 9th April from 6.00-8.00pm at Senate House, London, room 261.

We’re very pleased to have Dr. Catherine Gander join us to give a paper entitled, “‘Twenty-six things at once’: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings”

Abstract:
Created over a couple of Sunday mornings in the Fall of 1960, the twenty-six collaborative Poem-Paintings of the artist Norman Bluhm and the poet Frank O’Hara represent what Bluhm later called a spontaneous ‘conversation’ between the painter and the poet. In this talk, Catherine Gander adopts a number of pragmatist positions to reconsider these overlooked works as essential examples of verbal-visual interaction that extend their ‘conversation’ to greet and involve us in a relationship that is at once interpersonal, integrated, and embodied. The works, Gander argues, constitute what John Dewey terms ‘art as experience’; in their back and forth exchange of verbal and visual gesture, abstraction and denotation, the Poem-Paintings are the ‘cumulative continuity’ of ‘the process of living’, dramatizing the shifting, spontaneous and multiple dimensions of interpersonal conversation, and in so doing, indicating a new path toward interconnective and equal exchange between word and image.

Catherine Gander is a lecturer in American Literature and Visual Culture at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published widely on the subject, and her monograph Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: the Poetics of Connection (Edinburgh, 2013) won the biennial IAAS (Irish Association for American Studies) monograph prize.  Her latest book Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (with Sarah Garland) will be published by Manchester University Press later this year, and she is currently at work on another book, Pragmatic Perspectives on American Avant-Gardes.

For more details and for information about other sessions, see: https://literatureandvisualcultures.wordpress.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @Litviscult.

We hope to see you at the seminar on 9 April.

Sarah Chadfield and Sophie Oliver

(Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Mapping Identities in the Modern World, 1830-present

The 5th Annual Postgraduate Symposium of the Centre for Modern Studies,

University of York

Keynote: Marius Kociejowski, ‘Forager’s Harvest: A Writer’s Travels through People.’

Taking place on 2nd June 2015 at the University of York, this interdisciplinary one-day symposium aims to give postgraduate students across the arts and humanities the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary debates and ideas around the concept of identity, questioning the way in which identities are (re)formed, constructed and explored psychically and spatially in the modern world.

The modern world has been continuously characterised by identity crises, from the shifting borders and boundaries of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the experimental approach to selfhood of modernism in the world of literature and art. This event seeks to explore and challenge the associations and assumptions that have come to coalesce around questions of identity and space, facilitating a broad approach to issues of self-identity, ‘otherness’ and spatial identity.

Potential topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:
− Cartography and the shaping of geographical boundaries;
− The construction of selfhood and the ‘other’;
− Contested identities, spaces and territories;
− Nationalism and racism 1830-present;
− Travel-writing/travelogues, voyages of self-discovery;
− The overlap of identity and culture;
− Spaces and places of identity in literature;
− Artistic representations of the self;
− Cultural identities;
− (De)constructing identity in the humanities;
− Philosophies of self;
− Alienation and/or isolationism.

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk by 5pm on 29th March 2015. Successful applicants will be informed in early April, and the conference will be free to attend with lunch and refreshments provided. More info: http://www.york.ac.uk/…/summer-2015/pg-forum-symposium-2015/

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CFP: ‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel

The Landscape, Space, Place Research Group at the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its ninth annual postgraduate workshop.

‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel

Monday 22nd June 2015

University of Nottingham

Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)

To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. Travel can create different spatial, bodily, and object identities, as (un)familiar places and landscapes are negotiated, and borders and boundaries are crossed and re-crossed. It can have multiple implications and legacies and can be represented and documented in diverse, sometimes surprising, ways.

This workshop aims to emphasise and explore the richness of travel in its multivalent forms, from antiquity to modernity and beyond. We will consider travel in relation to social, political, cultural, and environmental forces, as we ask how it is interpreted across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Papers are invited on – but are by no means limited to – the following themes:

  • The narration and representation of travel
  • Journeying in/through the landscape
  • Spatial identity and place
  • Travel and temporality
  • Modes and methods of transport
  • Home, abroad, belonging, displacement
  • Departures and arrivals
  • Origins, destinations, and the in-between
  • Crossing borders and boundaries
  • The implications and legacies of travel

This is a one-day, interdisciplinary workshop that seeks to offer postgraduate students an opportunity to present related work at any stage of their research within a friendly, supportive and stimulating environment. It is the ninth annual postgraduate workshop to be run by the Landscape, Space, Place Research Group and hosted by the Schools of English and Geography at the University of Nottingham.

We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for 20 minute papers from all current postgraduate students. Please send, along with a short biography, to lsp.pgworkshop@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday 8th May 2015.

 

Organising Committee:  Alexander Harby, Alice Insley, Hollie Johnson, Mark Lambert, Xiaofan Xu & Emma Zimmerman

 

Further details can be found in the attached CFP.

Visit the LSPRG website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/lsprg/index.aspx

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Call for Papers: “Music and Literature: Critical Polyphonies”

Thursday 2 July 2015, Durham Castle, Durham University

Keynote speaker: Dr. Ian Biddle, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University

‘Music means exactly the way everything else does and at the same time may not mean at all and at the same time means in ways that nothing else can.’ (Lawrence Kramer, Interpreting Music (2011))

This one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference seeks to explore the myriad ways in which literature and music interact to construct meaning. In recent years, musicology has embraced new critical approaches, not least from literary theory and criticism, in order to understand music as constitutive of identity – gender, sexuality, nationality, race – and suggest radical ways in which music signifies through language and metaphor. These developments suggest that literary studies can continue to inform analysis of music in productive ways, while approaches from musicology can also stimulate fresh perspectives on literary works by prompting a reassessment of the way in which music functions in relation to the literary text.

We invite submissions on any period or any literature in English or other modern languages, and from those using methodologies drawing on literary criticism and musical analysis. Theoretical contributions and submissions incorporating elements of musical performance are also welcome.

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

  • Music and literary form (e.g. leitmotif, serialism, minimalism).
  • Musicians in literature (e.g. George du Maurier’s Trilby, Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu).
  • Poetry set to music (e.g. the Medieval Lyric, Goethe, Stéphane Mallarmé, A.E. Housman).
  • Lyrics as literature (e.g. Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen).
  • The libretto as work of literature (e.g. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, W.S. Gilbert, W.H. Auden).
  • Musical performances in literature (e.g. the piano in Jane Austen, opera in E.M. Forster and Alan Hollinghurst).
  • Music and song in dramatic performance (e.g. lyric and aurality in Medieval and Early modern drama and masque).
  • Musical adaptation of literary works (e.g. operas on Medieval Romance, Shakespeare or Pushkin, symphonic poems on Shakespeare or Dante).
  • Allusions to musical works in literature (e.g. T.S. Eliot and Wagner, Joris-Karl Huysmans’s À rebours, folksong in Lorca).
  • Musical notation or illustrations incorporated within literary texts (e.g. Medieval manuscripts, Ingeborg Bachmann’sMalina).
  • The relationship between ‘New Musicology’ and contemporary literary theory.

Abstracts of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be sent to musicandlit2015@gmail.com by 5pm on 8 May 2015. Please also include full contact details and a brief biographical note, and specify any audiovisual equipment you will require.

Contributors to the conference will be invited to submit their work to an upcoming volume of Postgraduate English, a peer-reviewed online journal based at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

For further information please see: https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/events/?eventno=23906

You can follow the Conference on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/musicandlit2015/

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CFP ‘Dissidence’ – UCL English postgraduate conference

———UCL ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE, FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2015————

Dissidence < Latin dissidēntia, < dissidēre to sit apart, disagree

featuring guest speaker Prof. Stefan Collini and second speaker to be announced

“The stories we are told today have stopped making sense” — Adam Curtis

As Britain staggers towards another General Election, the question of dissidence is more pressing than ever: drifting inertly in the face of unprecedented changes to higher education and our public sector, and after the convulsions of 2008 and 2011, have we as a society lapsed into indifference?

The 2015 UCL English Graduate Conference invites proposals for 20 minute papers on the theme of dissidence.

If literature has always provided a forum for dissent, rebellion and resistance and, as such, has frequently acted as a catalyst for change, how might models from the literary-historical past provide a framework for thinking about resistance in the present? Can we keep going as we are? Do we simply need “stories we can believe in”, or do we need to cultivate new methods of critique? And if so, how might literature or literary studies show the way?

This conference will therefore not only address the place of dissidence in literature, but also the place of culture in society and its potential as a site for critique. What kind of space for resistance can be opened up by literature and culture, and what does literary scholarship have to contribute? Are we, as scholars, dissidents – or were we ever?

The aim of this conference is to provide an opportunity for postgraduates working across the UK and internationally to present their own work – and to frame it within a wider conversation about the place of humanities in the twenty first century. Papers can address the topic of dissidence in any period of literary history, consider texts from any country, and originate from any theoretical perspective.

Proposals are particularly welcomed along the following strands, although other interpretations will be gladly received:

* Social/Political Dissidence — outsider figures / models of resistance / commitment

* Aesthetic Dissidence — generic shifts / cultures of dissent / outsider & oppositional aesthetics / canonical re-orientations / new media and literature / modernism’s afterlives

* Textual Dissidence — divergent readings / the readerly & the writerly / hermeneutics of suspicion

* Sexual Dissidence — queer voices / feminism / gender identity politics

* Spatial/Temporal Dissidence — subversive literary spaces / the space of literature / exile / diaspora / history / utopias / dystopias

Please submit 300 word proposals, accompanied by brief biographies, to dissidence.ucl.english@gmail.comby Friday 17 April.

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LitVisCult: Prof. Laura Marcus, this Wednesday (18 March)

This is just a reminder that the next session of the Literature and Visual Cultures Research Seminar will take place this Wednesday (18th March), 6.00-7.30pm, Senate House, London, room 261.

We’re very pleased to have Professor Laura Marcus join us to give a paper entitled, ‘Silence, sound and city films and fictions of the 1920s and 1930s’.

Abstract:

This talk uses examples of late silent and early sound films (including F.W.Murnau’s Sunrise and Paul Fejos’s Lonesome) to explore the relationship between the visual and the aural in the cinema of the period, and the charged role played by representations of urban modernity in this context. It closes with brief discussion of novels (including works by Woolf, Graham Greene and Patrick Hamilton) in which relationships between silence and sound are played out in literary terms.

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Her book publications include The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) and Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014). Current research projects include a study of the concept of ‘rhythm’ in interdisciplinary contexts (with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) and a book on literature and the cinema, which looks in particular at the relationship between writing and the silent/sound transition in film.

For more details and for information about other sessions, see: https://literatureandvisualcultures.wordpress.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @Litviscult.

We hope to see you at the seminar on Wednesday.

Sarah Chadfield and Sophie Oliver

(Royal Holloway, University of London)