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Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English Literature

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University of Bristol – School of Humanities
Location: Bristol
Salary: £36,001 to £40,523 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 31st March 2017
Closes: 3rd May 2017
Job Ref: ACAD102559

The University of Bristol invites applications to a permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in Liberal Arts and English Literature. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching and administration of the Liberal Arts programme. Their own discipline will be English Literature, and they will also contribute to the teaching and administration in the Department of English. Candidates will develop or continue to develop to the highest level a programme of research in their area of specialisation within English, which will fall in the area of English or American Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Research expertise in Gothic fiction by women writers may be an advantage. The panel will be looking for an individual of outstanding intellectual promise, vision and passion, who will contribute fully to the life of the programme and department.

For further information about the department, see www.bris.ac.uk/english

Contact for informal enquiries:

Professor Bob Fowler robert.fowler@bristol.ac.uk

Ms R Jacks r.jacks@bristol.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)117 331 7982

Timescale of appointment:

Long-listed candidates will be notified on or about 12th May 2017. They will be required to submit a sample of their work (in English, not more than 10,000 words) by 17th May 2017.

Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about 2nd June 2017 and invited to interview.

Interview date: 20th June 2017

Anticipated start date: September 2017

The University of Bristol is committed to equality and we value the diversity of our staff and students.

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CFP: The American Recluse: Contesting Individualism in Narratives of Isolation and Withdrawal – ALA 2017

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Deadline for submissions: April 7, 2017
Full name / name of organization: Matthew Mosher
Contact email: matthew.mosher@stonybrook.edu
Additional proposals wanted for the panel “The American Recluse: Contesting Individualism in Narratives of Isolation and Withdrawal” to be presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA. All periods and theoretical approaches welcome. Please send 250-word abstract to matthew.mosher@stonybrook.edu by April 7, 2017.

CFP: The Politics of Space and the Humanities

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International Conference

15-17 December 2017

The Department of American Literature of theSchool of Englishat Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) and the support of the Fulbright Foundation Greece (70th Anniversary of American Studies in Greece) invite scholars to submit proposals for the international conference – The Politics of Space and the Humanities – to be held in Thessaloniki.

The latest socio-cultural and political developments on both sides of the Atlantic have again placed space at the center of attention of current scholarship in the Humanities. The relation between places, people, and geographies as caused by immigration, migration and refugee flows, demographic changes, war tensions and conflicts, environmental disasters, urban expansion, and mapping technologies has always been dynamic. Nowadays, finding ourselves in the midst of change, we need to reconsider the politicized nature of space, its impact on individuals and the shaping of identity in a number of contexts within Anglophone literary and artistic production that open up the Humanities to numerous other disciplines and spatial interactions.

The conference keynote speakers are:

Michael Joyce, Vassar College, U.S.
Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Savas Patsalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Linda Peake, York University, Canada

We invite individual abstracts and panel proposals from scholars, researchers and artists in an array of subjects (without being restricted to) in any of the proposed topics below:

  •   Literary geographies
  •   Imagined spaces
  •   Performing space
  •   Photographic, cinematic, visual and typographic representations of space
  •   Geopolitics
  •   Space and Globalization
  •   Space and surveillance
  •   Urban mappings and ethnicity
  •   Architextural spaces
  •   Media and environment
  •   RPG games
  •   Space-narrative-gaming

Abstracts and/or panel proposals should be submitted by (extended deadline): May 31st, 2017.

Please include the following in your submission:

  •   Name
  •   Affiliation (if any)
  •   Email address
  •   Title of Abstract or Panel Proposal
  •   Abstract (250 words)
  •   Bio (150 words)

Please address e-mails to:

trapatz@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou); detsi@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Zoe Detsi). Conference Organizing Committee: Tatiani Rapatzikou, Zoe Detsi, Effie Yiannopoulou.

CFP: “The Summer of Love”: A One-Day Countercultural Event in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Summer of 1967

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Queen’s University Belfast, 28 July 2017

The Summer of Love was not simply an American phenomenon but an occurrence with international and intercultural influence and significant social and political effects, transforming the ways in which the counterculture, intergenerational relationships, class, gender, and race are understood. Thousands of young people ventured to the Bay Area, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district. The media’s coverage of the influx of students, hippies, and others considered part of the “counterculture” drew national and international attention.

This event will consist of a strong arts and entertainment component. Local artists from Belfast will display their original works, a screening of a countercultural film at Queen’s Film Theatre will take place, and the day will conclude with a special after-party with retro music and drinks at one of Belfast’s popular clubs.
Topics will include:

– Vietnam and the student protests; the New Left; Students for a Democratic Society; Hippies, Yippies, and Diggers

– Timothy Leary; psychedelia and drug culture

– Deviance; intergenerational conflict; youth alienation; Free love and the sexual revolution

– Freaks, bikers, communes, cults, and other marginal groups

– San Francisco rock, folk music, protest songs, and experimental music; Bob Dylan; the Beatles (particularly Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band); Jimi Hendrix; the Grateful Dead; music festivals

– Independent and cult films; the Hollywood Renaissance

– Civil disobedience, riots and race relations; the Black Panthers; the feminist movement

– Eastern religion; the New Age movement; mysticism

Call for Art

Works of art—oil paintings, watercolors, charcoals, prints, etchings, photographs, etc.—are requested for part of the Summer of Love art exhibit. Protest art, photographs representing alternative lifestyles, psychedelic or experimental works, and other subversive counterculture creations are especially desirable.

Please email an image of your work to plederer01@qub.ac.uk.
The deadline is May 1, 2017. Results will be announced by June 1.

The event will take place in the Peter Froggatt Center at Queen’s University Belfast. A vegetarian and non-vegetarian lunch will be served.

Fellowship and College Lectureship in English

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University of Cambridge – Trinity Hall
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £35,000 p.a. (pensionable). Remuneration will also be available for directing studies, at a fixed rate of £554 p.a. plus a per capita payment for the number of students taught.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 17th March 2017
Closes: 21st April 2017

Trinity Hall invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the post of Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English. The appointment will take effect from October 2017 and is permanent.

For further particulars and an application form: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/academic-vacancies.

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CFP: Native American Literature Permanent Section (MMLA 2017)

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Deadline for submissions: April 5, 2017
Full name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Association
Contact email: kbeutel@lourdes.edu
In addressing the conference theme of “Artists and Activists,” the Permanent Section on Native American Literature seeks proposals exploring a broad literary context for recent protests and legal action against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Possible topics may explore literary activism in the tradition of Standing Rock Sioux scholar Vine Deloria. Papers addressing activism with ecological perspectives are encouraged. Possible focus could include historical voices such as Sarah Winnemucca, William Apess, Zitkála Šá, or Jane Johnston Schoolcraft or more recent authors such as Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Thomas King, Louise Erdrich, or Sherman Alexie.

Please send proposals of 200-300 words by April 5 to the panel chair, Kate Beutel, at kbeutel@lourdes.edu.

CFP: Pauline Hopkins Society Scholar Award

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Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2017
Full name / name of organization: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
Contact email: PHSscholaraward@gmail.com
Scholarship Award

2017

The Pauline Hopkins Society (http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org) is pleased to announce its second bi-annual competition for the best essay or book chapter on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins published between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2016. If you have published an essay or chapter that discusses Hopkins and/or her work, we invite you to consider entering before the April 15, 2017 deadline.

Because entries will be judged through a system of blind reviewing we recommend that any self-citation, either in the body or in notes, be reworked to the third person.

How to Enter:

Essays should be double-spaced throughout, with your name appearing only on the cover sheet, along with your institutional mailing address and e-mail address.

Please send essay as a pdf email attachment by April 15, 2017 to: PHSscholaraward@gmail.com.

The award of a $100 cash prize will be presented during a special ceremony commemorating Hopkins and her work in Boston during the American Literature Association annual conference in May 2017.

CFP for Special Issue of Journal of Narrative Theory: Bodies/Ojects/Agents

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Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2017
Full name / name of organization: JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory
Contact email: hdugan@gwu.edu
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory invites submissions that explore the questions and tensions that emerge when posthumanism and new materialism engage with feminist, anti-racist, queer, and trans* activism. Considering the rise in academic discourse of posthumanism and new materialism is concurrent with striking and strident attacks on women’s reproductive freedom, black lives, labor unions, and trans* rights, we invite papers that analyze these political moments and critical modes in tandem with one another.

How does political vitality connect to theories of materialism? Who and what matters and why? Is it possible to find connections and crossovers between theories of “matter” and political movements? How are the political stakes of defining bodies/objects/agents embedded in the narrative threads of theory and activism? When does political reality necessitate change in narrative theory?

We welcome papers that explore these questions through engagement with a wide range of topics, fields, and archives. Submissions should be between 25-35 pages, double spaced with one-inch margins, and in MLA Style (7th edition).

Please send submissions to hdugan@gwu.edu and mjones89@emich.edu.

Deadline: September 1, 2017

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership – US Pamphlets 1920-1945

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University of Sussex
Qualification type: PhD
Location: Falmer
Funding for: UK Students, EU Students
Funding amount: £14,553
Hours: Full Time, Part Time
Placed on: 15th March 2017
Closes: 1st June 2017
Qualification type: PhD

Location: Various

Funding for: UK Students, EU Students

Funding amount: Tuition fees, annual stipend and research expenses

Hours: Full Time or Part-Time

The University of Sussex and the British Library intend to make a PhD studentship appointment under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme (CDP) from autumn 2017.

This project will draw on the British Library’s extensive holdings of American political pamphlets to study and contextualise the writing, printing, distribution and dissemination of political pamphlets produced in the years preceding and during the Second World War. The Library’s collection of American pamphlets from the interwar period contains publications by different anti-fascist, anti-capitalist and pacifist societies. The researcher will also benefit from access to the extensive collection of US political pamphlets at the Marx Memorial Library, a partner of the project.

Through co-supervision the doctoral researcher will be guided towards the production of a multi-layered digital map of the pamphlets held in the collections, which would then be used to reanalyse the landscape of transatlantic radicalism during the period. In this way, the project will chart the origins, production, distribution and reception of the pamphlets. The resulting digital resource will document, and present in an accessible way, the British library’s collection of pamphlets in this area.

Studentships are awarded for 3 years (or part-time equivalent) initially. The AHRC stipend for 2017/18 is £14,553 (full-time, pro rata for part-time). The British Library will provide research-related expenses of up to £1,000 p.a. (against receipts, and in addition to the normal research expenses element of an AHRC studentship), including, but not limited to, travel to other libraries that hold relevant archival material and to project-related conferences.

Eligible candidates will have very strong academic records; they will normally have a relevant Masters’ degree or equivalent post-graduate qualification. Those with backgrounds in American Studies, English literature, History (and especially book history and print culture) will be especially well-prepared.

Potential candidates are welcome to contact Dr Sue Currell (s.currell@sussex.ac.uk) and Dr Mercedes Aguirre (The British Library – Mercedes.Aguirre@bl.uk) for further details.

Applications are to be made via potential candidates are welcome to approach Dr Currell (s.currell@sussex.ac.uk) and Dr Aguirre (Mercedes.Aguirre@bl.uk).

The deadline for submissions is 1 June. Interviews will be held on 26 June at the Sussex University.

Apply.