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Job: Tutor in American Studies, Part Time (University of Hull)

The School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at the University of Hull seeks to appoint a part-time Tutor (22% FTE) in American Studies (Sept 2016 – January 2017). This appointment is intended to cover an existing Final Year module entitled America on Trial, which complements our provision in American history, literature and culture.  We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive scholar with a commitment to teaching and learning, with knowledge and expertise in American social history relevant to teaching the significance of famous trials in America’s past.  The post-holder will also contribute to our survey course on pre-20th century American history. This is a good opportunity for an early career academic, providing the post-holder with teaching experience in a developing capacity, within an established programme of study, with the support of a mentor as per induction procedures. Closing date for applications is Saturday 13th August.  Interviews are likely to be held Monday 22nd August […]

CFP: Edited Collection on Joe Brainard

Edited Collection on Joe Brainard deadline for submissions:  August 15, 2016 full name / name of organization:  Yasmine Shamma, Honors College of Florida Atlantic University contact email:  yshamma@fau.edu Edited Collection on Joe Brainard First and Second Generation New York School poetry is so frequently lined with or bound by Joe Brainard’s artwork that its material seems inextricable from the cherries, jacks, and starts so commonly occupying the real and influential side-lines of their poems. In this way, Brainard’s work occupies the literal margins of New York School Poetry, while also figuratively influencing the aesthetic ones. Brainard was not only an illustrator and friend to many New York School poets, he was also an avid letter writer, collage artist, miniature artist, cartoonist, and serious poet. His art, friendship and poetry provide a point from which to reconsider The New York School’s often chronicled relationship to The New York School of Painting […]

CFP: Ex Parte Milligan at 150: The Constitution & Military Commissions in American Wars on Terror (Illinois)

Date: September 22, 2016 to September 24, 2016 Location: United States Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Law and Legal History, Government and Public Service, Political Science, Political History / Studies Illinois State University is proud to announce a conference to mark the 150th anniversary of ex parte Milligan (1866), sponsored by Illinois State University and the David Davis Mansion on September 22-24, 2016 at the Marriot Hotel, Normal Illinois. Written here in Bloomington, Illinois, Davis’s decision held that trial by military commissions was acceptable only where there was a real war and where civilian courts were impaired. Long dormant, Milligan has assumed new centrality in our political and constitutional debates arising out of the so-called “war on terror.”  We invite established scholars, practicing professionals, or graduate students from all fields to submit proposals on historical, legal, constitutional or political subtopics related to the Milligan decision itself, its antecedents, or […]

Job: Lecturer in History, Part-time (University of the Highlands and Islands)

The University of the Highlands and Islands is the United Kingdom’s leading integrated university encompassing both further and higher education. Based in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, our distinctive partnership of 13 independent colleges and research institutions is locally based and rooted in communities, but with national and international reach, as part of a regional university structure. To support our work we are recruiting to the following role within the Centre for History. The Centre for History, founded in 2005, is part of the Humanities and Gaelic Subject Network, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). The centre has a strong team of research-active scholars who have developed an innovative range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. As part-time lecturer, you will work from the centre’s base in Dornoch in the north Highlands. You will design, deliver, monitor, administer and evaluate academic programmes and contribute […]

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