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The University of Portsmouth has 3 fees-only PhD
studentships available and would welcome applications from postgraduates
interested in working on Victorian or Neo-Victorian subjects.
Fees-only PhD studentships within the Centre for Studies in
Literature
University of Portsmouth
Application deadline July 5, 2013
Start date October 2013
Project description Applications are invited to three
fees-only PhD studentships within the Centre for Studies in Literature at the
University of Portsmouth. Each studentship is available for a three-year period
of doctoral study commencing in October 2013. The Centre welcomes
applications from students wishing to work on projects in one of the following
fields of research: Early Modern Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature and
Culture; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and American Literature,
with interests in one of the following areas:
- 17thC Women’s poetry
- Early modern philosophical literature
- Victorian/modernist celebrity and popular culture
- Decadence and fin-de-siècle literature
- Victorian/Neo-Victorian literature and science
- Victorian or modernist literature and visual culture
- 19th/20thC literature and food
- 19th/20thC Anglo-American literary relations
- 19th/20thC detective fiction
- National Identity/Englishness
- Memory cultures/Narratives of loss
Please note that these awards are fees-only and will not
cover maintenance costs. However, students will be entitled to financial
support for conference attendance and paid part-time teaching hours may be
available. For further details on the Centre, staff expertise and research
specialisms please see:http://www.port.ac.uk/research/csl/
Informal enquiries contact details Informal enquiries
should be made to Dr Patricia Pulham (patricia.pulham@port.ac.uk)
How to apply Further information on how to apply is
available on: www.port.ac.uk/phdapplication
