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Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: ‘How to Blow Up an Oil Rig’/’Reading Don DeLillo in the Archives’

Centre for Conservation, Foyle Room British Library, United Kingdom

Summer Scholars When Mondays and Fridays from 4 July - 26 August, 12.30-14.00 Where Check individual listing for room location Price Free, no booking required The Eccles Centre sponsors numerous Visiting Fellowships and Postgraduate Research Awards each year. The Summer Scholars programme highlights the work that they have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience. FRIDAY 19 AUGUST The Centre for Conservation Foyle Room How to Blow Up an Oil Rig... Harry Whitehead’s third novel concerns the oil business. Big subject, overwhelming research. So when to go ‘shallow’, when ‘deep’? And just how do you blow…? Reading Don DeLillo in the Archives Rebecca Harding shares how the materials in the British Library’s collections have helped her to see beyond common critical frameworks in her research, a study of the role of the body in the […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: ‘Put All to Fire and Sword’/Britain and the Anglo-American War of 1812

Centre for Conservation, Foyle Room British Library, United Kingdom

Summer Scholars When Mondays and Fridays from 4 July - 26 August, 12.30-14.00 Where Check individual listing for room location Price Free, no booking required The Eccles Centre sponsors numerous Visiting Fellowships and Postgraduate Research Awards each year. The Summer Scholars programme highlights the work that they have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience. MONDAY 22 AUGUST The Centre for Conservation Foyle Room 'Put all to fire and sword' Nicola Martin compares and contrasts the experiences and encounters of various groups of ‘others’, and considers pacification in the eighteenth-century British Empire from Culloden to Quebec. Britain and the Anglo-American War of 1812 The 1812 Anglo-American War may be the most overlooked conflict in British history. Peter O’Connor explores the domestic impact of the war with a particular focus on the response of radical democrats […]

Job: Lecturer in Politics (University of Surrey)

Applications are invited for a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Surrey. The appointee will join a vigorous and lively department in an internationally recognised University with established strengths in the social sciences and humanities. Applicants will hold a doctoral degree or be close to completion in Politics or Political Science and should have an emergent high quality publications profile. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the politics and methods research group. We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in public opinion, electoral politics, American politics, and research methods. The successful candidate will contribute to delivering the teaching portfolio of the department and develop new modules in British and or American Politics for existing programmes. Informal inquiries may be made to Dr Roberta Guerrina (r.guerrina@surrey.ac.uk , 01483 682865). Further details: For more information and to […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: William Atkins, ‘The Great American Desert’

Centre for Conservation, Foyle Room British Library, United Kingdom

Summer Scholars When Mondays and Fridays from 4 July - 26 August, 12.30-14.00 Where Check individual listing for room location Price Free, no booking required The Eccles Centre sponsors numerous Visiting Fellowships and Postgraduate Research Awards each year. The Summer Scholars programme highlights the work that they have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience. FRIDAY 26 AUGUST The Centre for Conservation Foyle Room The Great American Desert Eccles Centre Writer in Residence William Atkins is working on a cultural history and travel book about the world’s deserts, with a particular focus on the US southwest. He discusses his use of the America’s collections in researching the evolution of the US’s perception of its desert regions, from John C. Frémont’s account of his exploration of the Great Basin in 1843, to the development of an […]

Job: Teacher of English, Fixed Term (University of Cardiff)

The School of English, Communication & Philosophy at Cardiff University wishes to appoint a Teacher with a strong teaching record in Romantic literature and nineteenth-century British or American literature. The successful candidate will have sole responsibility for framing and delivering dynamic 3rd and 2nd Year modules in those areas. S/he may also be asked to deliver existing Year 1 provision. Starting date: 1 February 2017. This post is full-time and fixed-term until 31 January 2018. For informal enquires regarding this post, please contact Prof Katie Gramich (GramichK@cardiff.ac.uk) It is anticipated that interviews will be held mid-September. The closing date is 29 August 2016. Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. To apply, click here.

PhD Studentship in Literatures of Travel (Nottingham Trent University)

Nottingham Trent University welcome applications from prospective students wishing to work for a PhD on travel writing under the guidance of a supervision team led by Professor Tim Youngs. There is no restriction as to historical or geographical focus or type of critical approach, but proposals relating to post-medieval travel writing and any of the following areas may be especially welcome: North America; Italy; India; travel writing and modes of transport; the poetry of travel; modernism and travel; postcolonialism and travel; creative-critical work; radical travel writing; diasporic travel narratives; travel writing and the Midlands. We also welcome single-author studies, particularly of unjustly neglected figures. NTU is home to the world-renowned Centre for Travel Writing Studies, and the successful applicant will be expected to support the Centre’s activities. Specific qualifications/subject areas required of the applicants for this project: 2:1 or 1st class Hons degree in English or a related subject (essential), MA in […]

CFP: Essays on American Revenge Narratives (edited collection)

I invite proposals for a collection of essays that examines the theme of revenge in American fiction, film, and television. Vengeance – that quest for violent reciprocity – is one of storytelling’s oldest and most enduring plots. But in the modern American imaginary the familiar shape of retribution assumes a new form. Over and over, avengers on page and screen desire not only blood but also symbolic victories. In Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer (1996) a troubled protagonist named John Smith yearns to kill the one “white man was responsible for everything that had gone wrong” for Native Americans. In Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003), an outraged financial analyst assassinates a billionaire who upset the “balance” of global capitalism. For these characters, personal grievance turns into political statement, and payback evolves from a selfish drive into a systemic reckoning. From bloodthirsty class warriors in The Iron Heel (1908) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936) to anti-patriarchal furies of Beloved (1987) and Foxfire (1993) to contemporary assailants […]

Eccles Centre Writer in Residence Award

The competition for the 2017 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence is now open, with a deadline of 17.00 on the 31 August 2016. This award of £20,000 is open to writers resident in the United Kingdom. Writers should be working on a non-fiction or fiction full-length book, written in the English language, the research for which requires that they make substantial use of the Library's collections relating to North America (The USA, Canada, and the Caribbean). The winner will hold the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award for a period of one year from 1 January 2017.  Find out more details on the Eccles Centre website: http://www.bl.uk/eccles/eccleswriters.html

Associate Program Officer, Terra Foundation for American Art (Paris)

Terra Foundation for American Art 121 rue de Lille, Paris, France

The Paris Center of the Terra Foundation for American Art seeks to hire an Associate Program Officer.  Part time position (4 days a week) with possibility of full time (5 days a week) pending authorization. Organization Headquartered in Chicago, with a satellite office in Paris serving as its centralized European hub, the Terra Foundation for American Art is dedicated to fostering exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for national and international audiences.  Recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art, the foundation provides opportunities for interaction and study, beginning with the presentation and growth of its own art collection in Chicago.  To further cross-cultural dialogue on American art, the foundation supports and collaborates on innovative exhibitions, research, and educational programs. Description of Position The Associate Academic Program Officer works in close collaboration with the Director of European Academic Programs on the conception, organization, […]

Editor Sought: History of Women in the Americas Journal

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) wishes to appoint an Editor to manage the publication of its Journal, History of Women in the Americas. The journal is an open access publication, hosted by the School of Advanced Studies, at http://journals.sas.ac.uk/hwa, and publishes at least one issue per year. History of Women in the Americas (ISSN 2042-6348) publishes peer-reviewed scholarship on women’s and gender history in all parts of the Americas and between the Americas and other nations across all centuries. The journal provides a unique forum for interrogating women’s history from a hemispheric perspective that stretches from Canada and the United States to Latin America, Central America and Mexico to the Caribbean. History of Women in the Americas is a showcase for historians of North American, South American and Caribbean women from postgraduates and early career scholars to well-established academics. The journal also aims to […]

CFP: Reframing Family Photography (University of Toronto)

REFRAMING FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY University of Toronto, Canada, SEPTEMBER 28–30, 2017 A conference hosted by the Toronto Photography Seminar What is family photography? Scholars have often understood the genre as simply snapshots of domestic scenes—images  that reflect and produce normative notions of family. Yet, family photographs are more complex than we think: they can also include images taken by a wide spectrum of producers, including the press and the state; they frequently circulate between private and public spheres, linking personal memories with national and even global histories; and, just as importantly, they don’t just illustrate families, but also shape the very idea of family, as racialized and gendered social structures. Foundational thinkers including Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jo Spence, Marianne Hirsch, Martha Langford, Deborah Willis, and others, have offered influential terms for investigating family photographs, respectively, as: an affective punctum; middlebrow art; means of reinforcing domestic ideology; conduit for postmemory; integrally […]

CFP: Populism in Historical Perspective (European Institute, UCL)

'Populism in historical perspective'   Symposium  2nd November 2016, European Institute, University College London   The last decade has seen the rise of politicians, parties and governments to whom the label 'populist' can usefully be applied. This is true not only in Europe, but also in North and South America, Turkey, India and elsewhere. British media responses to this global shift have focused on the 'Brexit' referendum result and the short term consequences of the 2008 financial crash. There has been less interest in historicising these phenomena or locating them in an analysis of twentieth and twenty first century democracy. Yet this would be a useful endeavour, involving study not only of twentieth century populists like Pierre Poujade or Juan Perón, but also a wider project investigating the development of modern mass society since the late nineteenth century.   The UCL European Institute and UCL Centre for Transnational History therefore […]