Cambridge American History Seminar: “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century”

Call for Applications for Visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/ The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University Exeter, UK is both a public museum and a rich research resource for scholars of moving image history. The museum is named after the renowned filmmaker Bill Douglas and was founded on the extraordinary collection of material he put together with his friend Peter Jewell. In the twenty years since its opening, the museum has received donations from many sources and now has over 75,000 artefacts on the long history of the moving image from the seventeenth century to the present day. Thanks to the support of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Trust we are able to offer stipends to enable research using the collections at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. We are inviting applications for two categories of award:  UK stipends are available […]

The Arthur Miller Centre Prizes 2017   The Arthur Miller Centre Prize for Best Journal Length Article The Arthur Miller Centre Prize of £500 is awarded for the best journal length article on any American Studies topic by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or abroad or by a non-UK citizen who publishes their essay in a United Kingdom journal, providing that the entrant is a member of the British Association of American Studies in the year of submission. Submissions, including the article and publications details, should be e-mailed to Emma Long at Emma.Long@uea.ac.uk or, if preferred, three hard copies should be mailed to the address below. The Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize The Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize of £500 is awarded for the best first book on any American Studies topic in the preceding calendar year by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or […]

Postdoctoral Fellow - Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series 2017-18: Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation Faculty of English Language and Literature, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford Grade 7: £31,076 - £38,183 p.a. This post arises from a grant awarded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation for a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series to be held in Oxford in the academic year 2017-18. The Series is entitled Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation and will bring together academics, creative practitioners and policy experts in a series of events to discuss the contribution of cultural practices of commemoration to post-war reconstruction and reconciliation across the world. Three modes of commemoration will be highlighted in turn: textual (term 1); monumental (term 2); and aural (term 3). The Postdoctoral Fellow will be attached to the project full-time for 12 months commencing on 1 July […]

Goldsmiths, University of London, is proud of its reputation for innovative and challenging thinking across its wide range of disciplines and for research-led teaching. With over 800 students at all levels and 45 established academic staff, the Department of English & Comparative Literature is one of the largest in Goldsmiths and hosts the Goldsmiths’ Writers’ Centre (home of the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction) and the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies. We are looking to appoint a lecturer in American Literature and Culture to bolster our wide-ranging existing team, contribute to teaching on our successful BA and MA programmes, and supervise MPhil and PhD students. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates. An interest in African American literature or American literature in a global context (transatlantic, transnational, postnational), and the ability to augment the current provision of the Department may be an advantage. You will have a PhD in […]

BAAS Conference Attendance Hardship Fund BAAS is pleased to announce a Hardship Fund has been made available to support attendance at the BAAS Annual Conference in April 2017. Up to 5 awards of up to £300 each will be made and applications are invited from any postgraduate students and early career researchers who are members of BAAS. For the purpose of this fund, an early career researcher is defined as someone: Within 5 years of award of PhD* Working on sessional contracts OR a full-time contract of 12 months or less. * An applicant who completed their PhD more than 5 years ago may be considered if personal circumstances have prevented them from devoting themselves full-time to teaching and research activities e.g. long periods of ill health / paternity or maternity leave / caring duties. This will need to be outlined in the application. Applicants will be asked to declare: […]