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UK Fulbright Awards

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2018-19 UK FULBRIGHT AWARDS NOW OPEN! The 2018-19 Fulbright awards competition for British citizens is now open. The deadline for applications is Monday 6 November 2017 at 5pm GMT. The Fulbright Awards Programme offers generous funding to undertake study, research and/or teaching in the US. In addition to their academic strength, Fulbright Postgraduates and Scholars have a commitment to promoting peace and cultural understanding between the US and UK. They demonstrate leadership and initiative both within and outside of their professions and show a curiosity to learn about other cultures. They serve as cultural ambassadors furthering the Fulbright mission in their host country and in their home communities when they return. For our Postgraduate awards we accept applications for study at Masters or PhD level. For our Scholar awards we accept applications from individuals at any stage of their academic career from early career postdoctoral students to Senior Lecturers and […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “’The Mystery That Is Left Out of History:’ Romare Bearden’s Art and the Search for an African American Past”

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317. 6 November: Glenda Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University ’The Mystery That Is Left Out of History:’ Romare Bearden’s Art and the Search for an African American Past 

Job: Lecturer in Humanities and Widening Participation Academic Officer (UEA)

Full time/Fixed term. The Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities at UEA is seeking to appoint a new Lecturer in Humanities and Widening Participation Academic Officer. The role focuses on the development and delivery of University and school-based outreach academic sessions on and off campus and of support within the School. The role holder will act as a champion for Outreach and Widening Participation within the Institute. The post holder will also work closely with the Higher Education Champions as part of the National Collaborative Outreach project to raise awareness of the Foundation Year programme amongst partner 6th forms. The successful candidate will have experience of teaching at Post-16 and/or undergraduate level and will have an understanding of retention and transition in a wider HE or student lifecycle context. This new post is available from 1 January 2018 on a full-time, fixed-term basis for eighteen months. This appointment will be subject to […]

The United States of America and World War One: Exploring Political, Economic and Cultural Entanglements (British Academy)

British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH 13 Nov. 2017 Convenors:  Professor Gary Gerstle FBA, University of Cambridge Professor Desmond King FBA, University of Oxford This one day event brings together a group of distinguished scholars to reflect on aspects of the US’s participation in World War One on the occasion of the centenary of America’s entry. Four broad themes of US involvement in the Great War are examined: the politics of America’s entry; the cultural contours of US engagement in the war; the journeys or movements prompted by wartime; and the settlements reached at the war’s conclusion. Speakers include: Professor Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University Professor Christopher Capozzola, MIT Professor Beverly Gage, Yale University Professor Michael Kazin, Georgetown University Dr Alice Kelly, Oxford University Professor Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University Professor David Lubin, Wake Forest University Dr Jennifer Luff, Durham University Dr David Milne, University of East Anglia Professor Andrew […]

Northumbria University’s American Studies Early Career Visiting Scholarship

Northumbria University’s American Studies Early Career Visiting Scholarship American Studies at Northumbria University is offering a short Early Career Visiting Scholarship during Semester 2, 2017-2018. This Scholarship forms part of Northumbria’s American Studies program. The successful candidate will have been awarded (within the last 3 years) a PhD in any aspect of American culture, history, or literature, but will not yet hold a permanent full-time academic post. The Visiting Scholar will have a growing research profile and teaching experience and will be able to demonstrate exceptional promise in their chosen field. We welcome applicants with research interests in any aspect of American Studies, but particularly in U.S. politics and/or race and race relations. The deadline is 13 November. During their 2-day visit, successful applicants will: Deliver a research presentation to the American Studies Research Seminar. Lead a workshop on theory or methodology for Northumbria postgraduate students working in the arts, humanities […]

Job: Lecturer in American Literature and Culture (University of Manchester)

Fixed term, from 01/01/2018 until 30/06/2019 The deadline for application is 14 November 2017, and interviews will take place on 27 November 2017. The Division of English, American Studies & Creative Writing at the University of Manchester invites applications for an 18-month temporary teaching-focused 0.6 lectureship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. The successful candidate will be able to teach a range of undergraduate courses in American literature and culture, with a particular focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The post holder will be expected to design and deliver a third year option course; to contribute lectures and seminars for the first year introductory survey courses in American literature; to contribute to other first and second year courses and MA teaching as necessary; and supervise a number of third year dissertations. An induction will be provided, and a senior colleague in the department will act as mentor […]

CFP: Special Issue of Southern Quarterly – Replaying Gone with the Wind and the New Souths

Special Issue of Southern Quarterly Call for Papers: Replaying Gone with the Wind and the New Souths Editor: Philip C. Kolin, The University of Southern Mississippi Publication Schedule: Volume 55, nos. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2018) Submission Deadline: 15 November 2017 The Southern Quarterly invites submission of original essays, 20 to 30 pages, for a special double issue on Replaying Gone with the Wind: Voices of the New Souths to be edited by Philip C. Kolin. We would like to receive manuscripts that explore this iconic film in light of adaptations/parodies; post-South and postmodern readings; responses to the film from reviewers and famous writers in non-English speaking countries; Southern foodways; the film and World War II; the ways the film has been translated into or reinterpreted in other media including music, art, dance, photography; recasting gender/racial roles; etc. The journal welcomes contributions from a variety of disciplines, unpublished interviews, and related archival […]

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships (The University of Texas at Austin)

For its 2018–2019 fellowship program, the Ransom Center will award 10 dissertation fellowships and up to 50 postdoctoral fellowships for projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2017, 5 P.M. CST Further information available here: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application/

CFP: ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture (Lublin, Poland)

Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin, Poland May 10-11, 2018 Department of American Literature and Culture, in cooperation with the Video Game Research Center, is organizing a two-day international conference “ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.” We seek proposals for papers and panels that focus on the topic of exhaustion and regeneration in American and Canadian literature and visual culture (film, visual arts, video games, television, and others) of the last seventeen years, from the year 2000 to the present day. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:  post-millennial literature of exhaustion and replenishment psychological and emotional exhaustion and regeneration (mental disorders, breakdowns, burnout, psychotherapy) disease and recuperation environmental crisis and sustainable design globalization as the agent of exhaustion and replenishment scarcity and accelerationism exhaustion of/with politics apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios in texts of culture the many faces of passing: longevity, death, immortality, […]

BrANCA 3rd Biennial Symposium: The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. (University of Exeter)

BrANCA 3rd Biennial Symposium: The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. November 17-18, 2017 Streatham Campus, University of Exeter Plenary speakers: ·         Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Professor of American Literature, University of Lausanne, Switzerland). Author of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Ashgate 2010). ·         Lloyd Pratt (Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford). Author of Archives of American Time  (Penn 2009); The Strangers Book (Penn 2015). BrANCA: The British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists seeks proposals to its third biennial symposium, which will take place November 17-18 2017 at the Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, UK. We invite individual paper or group proposals on progressive aspects of U.S. literary culture during the long nineteenth century (comparative approaches are particularly welcome). Our symposium theme is “The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S”. “Not Yet” gestures to the renewed and growing interest in the variety of politically imminent imaginaries that increasingly defines […]

CFP: Edited Collection: Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture

As our current political and cultural climate elucidates, the modern world has become increasingly fascinated by surveillance systems. Popular television series’ such as Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale speak of our fears of being controlled by those watching us, whilst remastered movies such as Blade Runner 2049 harness our inherent desire for, and ultimate reliance upon, technology’s advancement. The systems of hypersurveillance shored up in these examples demonstrate not only our Orwellian fear of being immersed in such systems, but also our active participation in their creation and perpetuation. In both examples, it is the architectural frames and division of boundaries which plays a fundamental part in controlling and dominating the individual. Westworld’s Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) controls his androids and their ‘roles’ via the vast network system at Westworld’s headquarters, which in turn controls the space of the ‘game’; Offred is controlled by Gilead’s network of spies and informers, […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History”

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317. 20 November: Carl Nightingale, Professor of Transnational Studies and American Studies, University of Buffalo From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History