PhD Studentship: University of Portsmouth has 3 fees-only PhD studentships (7/5/2013; 10/2013)

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

Prospective PhD: Apply to Victoria University Wellington (7/1/2013)

Victoria University of Wellington is currently inviting prospective PhD students to apply for the 1 July application round (there will be another in November). Two areas of expertise in the English Programme may be of particular interest to Victoria-List members: colonial literature of the nineteenth century, and, within the field of children’s literature , the late Victorian concept of adolescence. Victoria University was rated first in New Zealand in the recent national research rankings (PBRF) and the English Programme was ranked first amongst English programmes in New Zealand. The 2013 QS World UniversityRankings rank Victoria as one of the top 50 universities in the world in four subjects, one of which is English Language and Literature. For information on how to apply, please see How to Apply for a PhD on the Faculty of Graduate Research website. A number of scholarships are available for students of exceptional academic merit, open to New Zealand and international students in any discipline. All offers of Victoria Doctoral Scholarships from 2013 will consist of a $23,500 per annum stipend plus domestic tuition fees for up to three years.

Feel free to write to Anna Jackson with any questions about graduate study in this programme. Anna.jackson@vuw.ac.nz

Anna Jackson
Deputy Head of School 
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies 

PhD studentship in London on C19 Professions and the Press (6/11/2013)

MPhil/PhD Scholarship

Professions and the Press 1820-1900

University of Greenwich -School of Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ref: VCS-HSS-01-13) 

Description:

This PhD topic investigates how the specific necessities and practices of publishing impacted on the formation of the professions in the nineteenth century. The PhD addresses questions such as:

• How was the press used to establish and regulate professional identities?
• How was the press used by individual professionals to advance their careers, supplement their incomes or assert class and gender positions for themselves and for the groups they represented?
• Above all, what part did the economic and practical necessities of publishing play in forwarding professional identities and practices?

The research seeks to answer the above by focusing on one pair of professions and their journals, contrasting what were, in the nineteenth century, an established profession with a new profession. Proposed pairings include Architecture and Engineering or Law and Finance.

The successful candidate will receive a £13726 bursary (years 2 and 3 linked to RCUK Doctoral Stipend rate) plus a contribution towards tuition fees of up to the equivalent of the university’s Home/EU rate for the duration of their scholarship, subject to performance. Applicants must hold a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (UK or UK equivalent) in a relevant discipline. Applications are sought by the indicated closing date for starting in September 2013.

For further information please contact the supervisor: Professor Andrew King, a.king@gre.ac.uk. [NB the advert gives my work phone number but I've given up my office to special needs students for the next two weeks so best email.]

For additional information about the studentship and links to the application form please go to: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/study/studentships  

The application form should be completed and returned to: postgraduateresearch@gre.ac.uk and include: a comprehensive CV and a one page covering letter explaining your interest in the project and how it relates to past experience and present motivations. Attachments should be in PDF or Word format.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 UTC on Tuesday 11 June 2013.