Katherine Mansfield Studies, the annual peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press, is looking to appoint a postgraduate as its next editorial assistant, following in the footsteps of Louise Edensor, who has done a fantastic job over the past three years. Details are as follows:
1. The post will be for two years initially, with a third year possible.
2. There is no remuneration, but we offer editorial experience in a prestigious annual publication.
3. Duties include coordinating communication with contributors; maintaining a spreadsheet of submissions/decisions; maintaining the production schedule; collating and editing the Notes on Contributors as well as the acknowledgements; etc.
4. Some co-editing of  submissions would be welcomed after training in our house style.
5. The Editorial Assistant’s name will appear on the title page of the volume.
6. Location is not an issue, since everything is done electronically. However, swift responses are essential during the main period of production: September – December.
7.  Submissions for this postgraduate position will only be considered from members of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Details regarding membership can be found here: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org

Please email a one page resumé to the co-editors, Dr Gerri Kimber and Professor Todd Martin, stating why you would like to be considered for the position, to
kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org  by 31 January 2016.

Dear BAMS-ers,

The Modern Humanities Research Association are seeking a new postgraduate editor for Working Papers in the Humanities. Please share the below advertisement with interested PG students.

The MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) is looking for a second postgraduate editor for its online journal, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities (http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph). Working Paperswas launched in 2006 and is aimed at early career researchers and postgraduates.

The successful applicant will serve as a second postgraduate representative to the MHRA Executive Committee, attending three committee meetings per year in London and advising on postgraduate matters, and the position will also involve an element of conference organisation. For further information about the work of the MHRA see www.mhra.org.uk.

This position starts in January 2016 and ends in December 2017. Whilst unpaid, it offers invaluable experience in the world of academic publishing, as well as representing a chance to work constructively for the future of the Humanities more broadly. Applications are welcome from postgraduates working in any of the ‘modern humanities’, defined as relating to the modern and medieval languages, literatures and cultures of Europe (including English and the Slavonic languages, and the cultures of the European diaspora).

Applicants should send a CV and cover letter (in a single Word file), together with a letter of support from their supervisor, as email attachments to Dr B. Burns (barbara.burns@glasgow.ac.uk), Honorary Secretary, by 10 December 2015. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be addressed to the current representative, Lucy Russell, at postgrads@mhra.org.uk.

The King’s College London Centre for Modern Literature and Culture is pleased to announce that our 2016 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Responses to Modernism is now open.  The competition is open to postgraduate students from throughout the UK.  You are invited to submit texts (up to 2000 words), images, films (up to 15 minutes), digital artefacts, musical compositions (up to 12 minutes for up to two instruments or for electronics*).

Please do come along to our launch event for the 2016 competition:

Inventing the Modern Novel

Mon 9 November, 6.30-7.45pm, Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre

Ali Smith and Vesna Goldsworthy in conversation with Lara Feigel

Acclaimed novelists Ali Smith and Vesna Goldsworthy will explore the influence of modernist literature on their own work and interrogate what it might mean to be influenced by modernism.  Is modernism more a period of early-twentieth century art or a set of styles?  If the modernist novel still exists today, is it necessarily formally avant-garde? Does it continue Virginia Woolf’s task of tracing ‘the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall’? Does it employ what TS Eliot termed ‘the mythical method’, as ‘a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history’?

This discussion is free and will be followed by a drinks reception.  It is open to the wider public but 150 seats have been set aside for students eligible to enter the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Responses to Modernism.

To book please visit

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CMLC/inventingmodernnovel.aspx

The Competition

In the early decades of the twentieth century writers, visual artists, filmmakers and musicians across the world competed to follow Ezra Pound’s injunction to ‘make it new’.  Whether artists were willing or resisting change – hurling themselves into the (often technological) future or hankering elegiacally after lost forms and ways of life – the first fifty years of the twentieth century saw an explosion of artistic production in all the arts.  Shaken up by two world wars, stirred by the invention of cinema, artists questioned what art was and could be and asserted its value in a fragmented yet increasingly interconnected world.

Postgraduate students are invited to submit their own creative responses to this moment of artistic explosion in whatever art form seems most appropriate. This might be a homage, pastiche or parody or could be a much freer (and less historical) engagement with modernism.  You might see yourself as continuing, challenging or simply evoking the modernist project. The judges are looking for originality and hope to be made both to think and feel. Entries should be accompanied by a paragraph (up to 150 words) explaining the work of art and its relation to modernism.

The prize is open to postgraduate students from across Britain and will be judged by our Advisory Board (Lisa Appignanesi, Michael Berkeley, Rachel Cusk, Dexter Dalwood, Alison Duthie, Juliet Gardiner, Jeremy Harding, Deborah Levy, Stephen Romer, Fiona Shaw).

The deadline for the prize is Monday 28 March 2016. Entries should be submitted to modern@kcl.ac.uk (or posted to Dr Lara Feigel, English department, King’s College London, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NR).

The three shortlisted entries will be published in the journal Textual Practice and on our website.  If a musical composition is shortlisted it will receive a concert performance before the prize-giving ceremony which will also be recorded and published on our website.  The winner will receive a year’s membership to the Tate (or the equivalent museum in the recipient’s home city) and all the shortlisted contestants will meet the Advisory Board at a dinner following the prize-giving ceremony in June 2015.

To see details of the 2015 winning entries and for more details about the prize see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/cmlc/Competition.aspx

The Centre for Modern Literature and Culture was founded in September 2013 and is currently engaged in a project called ‘Inventing the Modern’. We aim to provide a hub for investigating modernist culture in London, initiating conversation and collaboration between researchers and creative artists. For us modernism can be seen as reaching back into the nineteenth century and forward into the twenty-first, embracing all art forms and nationalities and often mingling popular culture and high art. Our mission is to bring together academics, writers and artists to explore, interrogate, dismantle and reinvent the notion of the ‘modern’.  For more details about the Centre seehttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/cmlc/aboutus.aspx . To join our mailing list please email modern@kcl.ac.uk with the heading ‘join mailing list’.

* Music scores, which may be accompanied by a recording (in WAV or mp3 format), should be either posted as hardcopies or send electronically in PDF.  Musical compositions for electronic medium should be submitted in WAV format only.  Any works that include extensive improvisatory or aleatoric elements should be  accompanied  by a recording of a performance.

Best wishes,

Lara Feigel