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Lecturer in Early Modern Literature

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University of Birmingham – School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £39,324 to £46,924
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 2nd February 2017
Closes: 2nd March 2017
Job Ref: 56606
Grade 8 – Starting salary is normally in the range £39,324 to £46,924 . With potential progression once in post to £52,793 a year.

The University of Birmingham wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature with effect from 1st September 2017. We seek an early career academic with a completed and successfully examined PhD, evidence of teaching experience, and a developing record of outstanding research that will complement and enhance existing Department strengths.

The successful candidate will be expected to create and disseminate knowledge through initiating and conducting original research, through publication and through developing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In addition the post holder will contribute to the department and school by undertaking academic administration as appropriate to the appointment.

The Department of English Literature

The Department of English Literature is a central part of the School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies within the College of Arts and Law; our partner department within the School is the Shakespeare Institute, based in Stratford upon Avon. The Department has an excellent track record in teaching and an active research culture that emphasises excellent publications, productive collaboration within and beyond the University, and wide-ranging public engagement. Staff in the department research, publish and teach across the full chronological range of English Literature from Old English to the present day and are committed to a rich diversity of theoretical, historical and intellectual approaches to their subjects. The Department has recruited heavily over the last three years, and we wish to keep developing our strong research profile and our exciting u/g and p/g programmes. We are looking for outstanding academics whose ambitions as researchers and teachers match those of our forward-looking School.

The School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies (EDACS)

This is a vibrant and thriving school, situated within the College of Arts and Law. It hosts a community of academics and students researching and learning in all areas of English and American literature, Language and Linguistics, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Drama and Theatre Arts and American and Canadian Studies. It has particular strengths in the study of Shakespeare both on campus and at our Shakespeare Institute in Stratford upon Avon. Our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offer students the opportunity to combine academic scholarship with creative practice through performance, film and creative writing. EDACS aims to promote inter-disciplinarily and intellectual collaboration both in teaching and research.

Equal Opportunities

The University of Birmingham is an equal opportunities employer. The School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies recognises that strength and success comes from diversity and strives to maintain a flexible and supportive environment that enables all staff and students to flourish.

For further information about this post please contact Dr Deborah Longworth, Head of the Department of English Literature, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Telephone: 0121 414 7248. Email: D.L.Longworth@bham.ac.uk

To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button below; please quote Job Reference in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs

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CFP: HELAAS International Conference

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The Politics of Space and the Humanities
15-17 December 2017

Deadline: May 1st, 2017
Venue: Aristotle University, Thessaloniki

The Department of American Literature of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), 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.

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 May 1st, 2017.

Please include the following in your submission:

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

Please address e-mails to:

trapatz@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou); detsi@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Zoe Detsi).

CFP: Graduate Student Symposium 2017 – University of Strasbourg, June 6, 2017

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‌Association Française d’Etudes Américaines (AFEA) / French Association for American Studies

Call for Presentations

The French Association for American Studies invites doctoral students in American studies to take part in the Graduate Symposium (“Doctoriales”) specifically organized on their behalf during its annual conference. This year’s workshops will be held on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 (9am-5pm) at University of Strasbourg (France). The conference will take place on June 7 to 9, 2017. For further information, please check our website: http://www.afea.fr

Since 2008, the AFEA has been encouraging the internationalization of its Graduate Student Symposium by offering grants (up to 500 euros each) for a maximum of ten European candidates (other than French) to help cover their travel expenses. All students are, in addition, invited to attend the whole conference free of registration charges. The symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research in a less formal session than that of a full conference panel, and present it to that of other European scholars. Doctoral students may be at an early or more advanced stage of their research. The proposals will be responded to by professors specializing in related fields. Candidates are invited to give their presentations in English within one of the two workshops offered: 1) American literature, or 2) American “civilization” (history, sociology, political science…). Proposals relevant to both fields (film studies, visual arts or music, for instance), or to another field (such as translation studies or linguistics) can be sent to either of the co-chairs.

Applications

Candidates must send a Curriculum Vitae and a 500-word abstract summarizing their dissertation proposal, plus an estimated budget of traveling expenses and funding otherwise available to them. They must mention when they began their PhD, and the name and affiliation of their advisor.

– Proposals in civilization must be sent electronically to Professor Romain Huret (Romain.Huret@ehess.fr).

– Proposals in literature must be sent electronically to both Professors Françoise palleau-papin (francoise.palleau@wanadoo.fr) and Mathieu Duplay (mduplay@club-internet.fr)

Deadline for application : February 15, 2017. The symposium organizers will respond to all applicants by March 15, 2017.

CFP: Dismantling Inequality through Dialogues of Conscience

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Event: 01/042017
Abstract: 15/02/2017
Location: Seton Hall University
Organization: New Jersey College English Association

Dismantling Inequality through Dialogues of Conscience

NJCEA 40th Annual Conference, April 1, 2017

Seton Hall University

Keynote Speaker: John Keene, Chair of African American and African Studies Department, Rutgers University-Newark.

The New Jersey College English Association solicits 250-500 word proposals for panels, papers, workshops or roundtables on all aspects of “Dismantling Inequality” for its annual spring conference.

Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

Empowering Vernacular Voices

Dialogues of Protestors

Social Media as a Tool for Social Change

Social Reform and Literary Form

Challenging the Rhetoric of the Oppressor

Literature of Abolition

Visibility of Queer Voices in the Classroom

Political Debates as Texts

Literary Interpretation as Politics: critical race theory, queer theory, feminist critique, cultural criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism

Providing a Voice to the Voiceless (wildlife, waterways, Rainforests, farms etc.…)

Cultural Moment and Literary Experiment

How to Engage in a Dialogue about Privilege

Digital Humanities as a Medium for Dismantling Inequality

Writing for and about Social Justice

Paper and Panel proposals are due by February 15, 2017. NJCEA brings together those interested in language, literature, pedagogy, and other aspects of the teaching and study of literature and writing.

The title of John Keene’s talk is “Black and Brown Writers Matter: An Activist Poetics”

John Keene is the author of the novel Annotations and the short fiction collection Counternarratives which received a 2016 American Book Award. He has also published several collections of poetry as well as translations of both poetry and literature. Keene is a longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective and a graduate fellow of Cave Canem. He teaches in both Rutgers-Newark’s African American and African Studies program and its MFA Creative Writing programs.

Panel proposals can be sent as electronic attachments c/o Rachael Warmington, NJCEA Conference Organizer, to njceaconf2017@gmail.com. Proposals should provide the panel’s full title, name of its moderator (if possible), and should include a list of all presenters’ names, affiliations, addresses, e-mail addresses, brief biographical paragraphs, followed by their presentation’s title and a separate abstract (250 words each) describing its topic. The deadline for these proposals is February 15, 2017.

Graduate Student Award

Graduate students are cordially invited to submit papers for the NJCEA annual Graduate Student Award. The winner of this award will receive a Barnes & Noble gift certificate and have her or his paper published in The Watchung Review, the official publication of the NJCEA. Complete papers can be sent as electronic attachments c/o Rachael Warmington, NJCEA Conference Organizer to njceaconf2017@gmail.com. Papers should be approximately 3000 – 3500 words in length. Deadline for submission of essays: February 15, 2017.

N.B.: In order to be eligible to win the graduate student award, students must present their paper at the conference.

Registration for the conference: njcea.org/pdf/membership.pdf.

Application for membership in NJCEA: njcea.org/conference/registration.html.

For conference information, program, and NJCEA updates, please visit the NJCEA website at: njcea.org.

Please join our listserv to stay up to date and share comments: njcea.org/mailinglist.html

Reader/Professor

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University of Roehampton – Department of English and Creative Writing
Location: London
Salary: £51,799 to £61,606 pa inclusive of London Weighting Allowance
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 2nd February 2017
Closes: 6th March 2017
Reader: £51,799 to £59,470

Professor: From £61,606

Applications are invited from ambitious academics from early career researchers to professors.

Our department has a vibrant and active research culture. In the last Research Excellence Framework all of the publications submitted by our staff were rated as being of either international or national value, with more than 80% of our work regarded as being either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent.’ The department has been ranked 4th in London for the quality of its research and is in the top three performing departments for research across the University.

Further information about the English and Creative Writing Department is available on our website: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/english-and-creative-writing/

The University of Roehampton is the most research intensive modern university in the UK, with some of the highest regarded academic departments in the country.

This is an exciting time for the university, with investment in new curricula, the construction of a new £35m state-of-the-art library and student accommodation, the development of a number of external partnerships across the globe and plans for more doctoral scholarships.

We have a strong emphasis on supporting our students to reach their full potential in order to launch themselves onto successful graduate careers. We are ranked the best modern university in London in major UK league tables and we are embarking on a radical programme of enhancement in learning and teaching across all our academic areas.

The University has a beautiful, vibrant parkland campus, is located in the heart of south-west London and offers excellent facilities for researching, learning, teaching, and working.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the Head of Department: Professor Laura Peters, L.Peters@roehampton.ac.uk or telephone: 020 8392 3577.

To find out more information about the role and what we’re looking for, please visit the Working at Roehampton section of our website where you will find full details, how to apply, as well as further information about the benefits of working for us.

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Working-at-Roehampton/

Interviews will be held during May.

The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

Apply.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer

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University of Roehampton – Department of English and Creative Writing
Location: London
Salary: £38,428 to £50,396 Pa inclusive of London Weighting Allowance
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 2nd February 2017
Closes: 6th March 2017
Applications are invited from ambitious academics from early career researchers to professors.

Our department has a vibrant and active research culture. In the last Research Excellence Framework all of the publications submitted by our staff were rated as being of either international or national value, with more than 80% of our work regarded as being either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent.’ The department has been ranked 4th in London for the quality of its research and is in the top three performing departments for research across the University.

Further information about the English and Creative Writing Department is available on our website: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/english-and-creative-writing/

The University of Roehampton is the most research intensive modern university in the UK, with some of the highest regarded academic departments in the country.

This is an exciting time for the university, with investment in new curricula, the construction of a new £35m state-of-the-art library and student accommodation, the development of a number of external partnerships across the globe and plans for more doctoral scholarships.

We have a strong emphasis on supporting our students to reach their full potential in order to launch themselves onto successful graduate careers. We are ranked the best modern university in London in major UK league tables and we are embarking on a radical programme of enhancement in learning and teaching across all our academic areas.

The University has a beautiful, vibrant parkland campus, is located in the heart of south-west London and offers excellent facilities for researching, learning, teaching, and working.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the Head of Department: Professor Laura Peters, L.Peters@roehampton.ac.uk or telephone: 020 8392 3577.

To find out more information about the role and what we’re looking for, please visit the Working at Roehampton section of our website where you will find full details, how to apply, as well as further information about the benefits of working for us.

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Working-at-Roehampton/

Interviews will be held during May.

The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

Apply.

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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Event: 28/07/2017
Abstract: 03/01/2017
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Location: Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
Organization: School of Arts, English and Languages

Call for Papers/Call for Art – Present and Publish

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

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 overage 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. The interdisciplinary focus of the newly formed School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s will be stressed as collaborative research projects in writing, poetry, film, and a number of other disciplines will highlight cooperative learning and community engagement. Local artists from Belfast will display their original works, a screening of countercultural films at Queen’s Film Theatre will take place, and a special evening musical performance will conclude the day’s events.

The keynote speaker will be Dr Christopher Gair, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Gair is the author of The American Counterculture (Edinburgh UP, 2007), The Beat Generation (Oneworld, 2008), and is the editor of Beyond Boundaries: C. L. R. James and Postnational Studies (Pluto, 2006).

Call for Papers

20-minute presentations—in areas such as Art, Film, Music, Psychology, History, and Sociology—on themes associated with the late 1960s, are expected and appreciated. Papers can address the effects/outcomes of the counterculture of the 1960s. Presentations from postgraduate students are especially welcome.

Paper proposals should include a title, a 300-word abstract, your institution affiliation, contact information, and a 100-word biography. Topics may 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

Please send your proposal to plederer01@qub.ac.uk

The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2017. Results will be announced by March 20, 2017.

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. All of the topic suggestions for papers also apply here. 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 March 1, 2017. Results will be announced by March 20, 2017.

With authors’/artists’ premission, conference proceedings will be submitted for publication in a high-quality, peer-reviewed volume with outstanding editorial support and distribution from the academic publisher.

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

Call For Applications: International Students Sessions in Art History

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The Art History Festival, 7th Edition

Fontainebleau, France

June 2-3-4, 2017.

The 7th edition of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art will take place from Friday, June 2nd to Sunday, June 4th, 2017, in the town of Fontainebleau, in the park, at the château and on several sites in and around the city.

The Festival is a three-day entirely free international event that provides a crossroads between the world of professional art history and the public. Organized in collaboration by the ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) and the Château de Fontainebleau, with the support of the ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, its goal is to reach the broadest audience possible and offer a fascinating visual and contextualized experience of art. The Festival addresses a wide array of visual arts: from ancient to contemporary, painting to photography, performance to decorative arts; it also considers architecture and digital arts. During the three days of the Festival, more than 350 conferences, debates, tours, concerts, exhibitions, films, lectures, and workshops are offered to the public – free of charge and without reservation. The Festival invites 300 professionals of the art world (artists, professors, curators, art dealers, art publishers, students etc.) to present their expertise to a large audience in a scholarly yet passionate and accessible way. It goes beyond the usual academic borders, periods, and methods, providing an opportunity for the speakers to compare different practices in the domains of art history, heritage and culture. It also offers those professionals a chance to meet, discuss and interact together on a large scale. Every year, the Festival focuses on two main topics (a theme and a guest country). This year, the theme selected by the scientific committee is Nature and the country the United States of America. The program consists of events around its annual theme, Nature, and guest country, the United States, as well as a film festival (Art & Caméra), a book fair, international student sessions and workshops for secondary teachers called the Spring University. It also offers tours, concerts, theater, and family activities. In 2017, the Festival focuses on the subject of Nature. Specialists will present their research, ranging from the relations mankind develops with his surroundings to representation of different natural worlds in art (fauna, flora, vegetation, sea life), the symbolism of nature, and the art of gardening to the question of ecology. We will consider the history of landscapes from their representation in ancient Greece to Land Art. The presence of gardens and forests around Fontainebleau will set the stage and allow a personal experience of this broad subject. The Festival has chosen to honor the United States as its guest country for the 2017 edition. Thanks to the financial help of the Getty, the Terra, and the Annenberg Foundations, the Festival invites American lecturers to present the state of the current research in art history in the United States as well as introduce American art to a French audience. Some of the lectures and panels will be held in English. We will focus on the particularities of American art and American research themes: the political commitment of American artists, the identities of minorities and the question of safe zones, ancient Native American art, the link between American and French art and the rise and hegemony of American art in the second half of the twentieth century in relation to its European heritage. The Festival will also address the subjects of American photography, architecture and finally Land Art – a connection to the 2017 theme: Nature.

The Festival also offers recurrent main events:

CURRENT EVENTS FORUM
What’s new in the Art world? The Forum de l’Actualité presents the latest news in the world of the arts. It opens the floor to topics that are under discussion at the time of the Festival, from new exhibitions to debates about the attribution of newly discovered masterpieces or the destruction of heritage in the Middle East.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SESSIONS
They provide opportunities for the next generation of art historians in France, the USA and the EU to meet informally with established professionals and to share their research with the public. This initiative was started in 2012 and is financed in part by the Fondation Hippocrène. Approximately 60 Master and PhD students in art, art history, cinema history and restoration are guests of the Festival and are given a privileged access to the event. This year, a partnership with French Heritage Society and Annenberg Foundation will allow us to bring dedicated students in art history from all over the United States and to include them in these sessions. By inviting to Fontainebleau the experts they need to meet for their research, the Festival creates a precious moment of contact between two generations of scholars, but it also contributes to connect the future international community of art historians. Call for applications till March 15.

ART & CAMÉRA
This film festival’s intent is to draw attention to cinema as an artistic medium. It features films on art that re-mediate art history and create a bridge between art historians and a broader audience. It also designs a program that highlights the Festival’s theme and the guest country. This year’s series will include a tribute to American art filmmakers.
Art & Caméra presents more than a hundred films in their original format, screens silent films accompanied by live musicians – an occasion for the Festival to commission a new composition, and to present two awards. The Prix Art & Caméra turns a project of a film on art into a finished work of art with the help of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), l’Académie de France à Rome-Villa Medici, Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains and the patronage of Carlo Perrone. The second award, the Prix Jeune Critique, allows high school students to become jury members of a film festival and learn analysis techniques.
This year, the tribute to American art filmmakers will include a retrospective on the films on art by Frederick Wiseman (National gallery, La danse, ballet de l’opéra de Paris, La comédie française ou l’amour joué, Ballet). It will underline the lucidity with which this documentary filmmaker – one of the best of our time – describes the American system. We will invite Larry Keith, who is restorer at the National Gallery (London) and a protagonist of Wiseman’s film.
American filmmakers have a strong connection to nature. A lecture by Émilie Vergé will investigate how Stan Brakhage, American director of experimental films, has been using nature as the very material of his pictures, apposing tree leaves directly onto the film for instance. Documentary films on Land artists such as Robert Smithson and films with an interest for American iconic landscapes such as Terrence Malik’s Days of Heaven or John Ford’s Stagecoach will also be presented. Among the lectures proposed, Jean Mottet (emeritus professor EHESS) will analyze how painting and cinema have treated landscapes, while another will showcase the links between Edward Hopper and Alfred Hitchcock.

ART BOOK FAIR
It allows roughly 80 publishers and book dealers specializing in art to display their publications. Signing sessions or lectures by the authors will take place during this most important meeting of the year for the profession in France. Around 25 lectures will be given by authors on their latest books.

THE FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL
A meeting place for students, associations and professionals of the art world is organized by the Amis du Festival de l’histoire de l’art (AFHI-art) in an informal environment. The Festival is particularly attentive to creating opportunities for the art history students. It offers them professionalizing workshops and a new award this year to help them synthetize their research presentation in 180 seconds (call for applications here).

TOURS, SHOWS AND FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Activities are created for children and teenagers (with their schools or families) to introduce them to art through workshops, age-appropriate films, and visits. Countless events are offered: concerts, theater, tours in the château, the gardens and the town of Fontainebleau. Come and listen to the musicians of the Conservatoire de Parisor the actors of the Comédie Française. The students at École du Louvre will be at the ready in the castle, happy to share their knowledge on classical orders of architecture or the secret meaning of the Galerie François Ier, adapting their discourse to the degree of knowledge in art history of their audience.

SPRING UNIVERSITY
Supported by the ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, it provides training in art history for high school teachers (sessions and workshops).

The program will be made public around March, 2017 on the website and the app of the Festival. The paper program will be available in May. Save the date June 2-4, 2017. We are expecting you in Fontainebleau!

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Non-Stipendiary Visiting & Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

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University of London – Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study
Location: London
Salary: Not specified
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Placed on: 1st February 2017
Closes: 1st March 2017

Visiting Research Fellowships (VRF) at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London are offered for a period of six to twelve months. We welcome interest from scholars in English Studies based in the UK or overseas, including non-affiliated researchers. Visiting Research Fellows will be entitled to use of shared office space in the Institute in Bloomsbury, access to Senate House Library, an email account, free attendance at Institute events such as conferences, seminars and workshops (summer school places at reduced cost), access to other events in the School of Advanced Study and to a fund for travel/research expenses (currently up to £200 pa, subject to affordability and demand). VRFs are expected to contribute to the Institute’s activities, through participation in its events, projects and the general intellectual and research environment.

Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellowships (PVRF) are reserved for non-affiliated early-stage researchers within five years of the award of their doctorate. They can be held for a period up to a year and are normally non-renewable. The Institute will provide the same resources as those listed above for VRFs. PVRFs are intended to provide early stage researchers with a base from which to complete research, and apply for grants and academic posts, while participating in activities within the Institute. Appointees will be welcome, but not required, to initiate activities such as seminars, workshops or conferences of their own.

Applications are invited from 1 February – 1 March. Candidates will be notified of the outcome of their application soon after 15 March. There is no restriction as to the period or subject matter, and all topics within the field of English Studies will be considered. It may be an advantage to demonstrate a link to the Institute’s core research interests. All applicants should demonstrate a significant record of research achievement and contribution to the discipline as appropriate to career stage, circumstances and the category of Fellowship for which they are applying. Fellows are required to produce a short annual report of their activities.

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, in English Literature

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University of Roehampton – Department of English & Creative Writing
Location: London
Salary: £38,428 to £50,396 pa inclusive of London Weighting Allowance
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 31st January 2017
Closes: 6th March 2017
Applications are invited for a full-time, without-term Lecturer/Senior Lectureship in English Literature. We are looking for suitably qualified candidates with research interests and teaching experience in one or more of the following areas: Romanticism, American literature (particular expertise in African-American writing may be an advantage), ecocriticism or queer theory. If your specialism falls outside these areas but you would like to be considered for a post please apply through the ‘2017 campaign route’.

The University of Roehampton is the most research intensive modern university in the UK, with some of the highest regarded academic departments in the country.

This is an exciting time for the university, with investment in new curricula, the construction of a new £35m state-of-the-art library and student accommodation, the development of a number of external partnerships across the globe and plans for more doctoral scholarships.

We have a strong emphasis on supporting our students to reach their full potential in order to launch themselves onto successful graduate careers. We are ranked the best modern university in London in major UK league tables and we are embarking on a radical programme of enhancement in learning and teaching across all our academic areas.

The University has a beautiful, vibrant parkland campus, is located in the heart of south-west London and offers excellent facilities for researching, learning, teaching, and working.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the Head of School: Professor Laura Peters L.Peters@roehampton.ac.uk

To find out more information about the role and what we’re looking for, please visit the Working at Roehampton section of our website where you will find full details, how to apply, as well as further information about the benefits of working for us.

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Working-at-Roehampton/

It is hoped that interviews will be held during May.

The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

Apply.