1. Poetics and Prose theory in Early Modern English – York CREMS, 29 May 2013, Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, 9.30-5.30.
2. The British Milton Seminar Autumn Meeting, 2013, Saturday 19 October.
3. Summer School: “Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe” (II), Madrid, 4-14 July 2013.
4. Description of a proposed session at the RSA meeting March 27-29, 2014 in New York:  DID WOMEN ARTISTS HAVE A REFORMATION?
5. Call for Panels. Society for the Study of Early Modern Women will be sponsoring five panels for next year’s RSA meeting, March 27-29, 2014 in New York.

6. New York, NY, 27-29 March 2014, Early Modern Women Philosophers, Theologians, and Scientists. Organizers: Julie Campbell, Anne Larsen, and Diana Robin.

7. One-day workshop – ‘Describing, Analysing and Identifying Early Modern Handwriting: Methods and Issues’, T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Thursday 25 April, 9.15-4. Organized by the Centre for Early Modern Studies and Merton College History of the Book Group, with the co-operation of the Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book.
8. Reading University, Early Modern Research Centre, ‘Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe’,  Friday 26 April 2013.
9. Two Conferences at UCL: Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France is a two-day academic international conference to be held at University College London, 6-7 June 2013 and The Italian Angevins: Naples and Beyond is a one-day interdisciplinary conference, 5th June, focusing on the culture, history, and politics of the Angevin Regno, from 1266 to 1422.
10. Leonardo Da Vinci Society Annual Lecture, Alexander Marr, ‘Disingenuous Ingenuity in Renaissance Germany: The Case of Walter Hermann Ryff’, 10th May, 6pm, Kenneth Clark LT, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House.
11. Details of the 2013 Summer term programme for the Research Seminars. (All seminars are free /open to all and taking place at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN London) 
12. Warburg Institute Events from April to June 2013. http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/AnnualProgramme2012_13.pdf
13. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English Literature University of Roehampton -Department of English and Creative Writing (1.0 FTE) HR Ref No: HR64/13. Salary: £36,630 to £48,008 pa inc
14. Light, Colour, Veils – a conference to be held on 1^st June at The Courtauld Institute of Art.
15. Temporary Lecturer in English, 1500-1660 English, University of Southampton.

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Poetics and Prose theory in Early Modern English – York CREMS

29 May 2013, Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, 9.30-5.30

Open to all – entrance free and no registration required, but do email if you’re planning to attend.

10.00-10.45 Poetic Treatises in Early Modern England

• Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), The Proportions of English Poetics

10.45-11.30

• Hannah Leah Crummé (Kings College London) Theorizing English Rhetoric (Abraham Fraunce’s Arcadian Rhetorike and Fernando de Herrera)
• Michael Hetherington (Cambridge),  Remembering Lysias: The Coherence of the Text in Early Modern England

Coffee 11.30-12.00

 12.00-1.15 From Theory to Poetic Practice

• Hannah Crawforth (Kings College, London), Richard Willes’ Poetic Theory and Practice
• Micha Lazarus (Oxford), Sidney and Vettori’s Aristotle
• Louise Wilson (St Andrews), Theories of pleasure in early modern literary criticism

 Lunch, 1.15-2.15

 2.15-3.30

• Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings College, London), A pause for thought?: Critical writing by women and men 1610-1660
• John Roe (York), ‘Besely seeking with a continuell chaunge’: the poetics of indeterminacy in Petrarch and Wyatt.

·         Katherine Acheson (University of Waterloo in Ontario), The “Way of Dichotomy”: Visual Rhetoric, Dichotomous Tables, and Paradise Lost

Coffee, 3.30-4.00

4.00-4.45 Prose Theory

• Florence Hazrat (Cambridge), Poesy, Plot and Parenthesis: Rhetorical Figures as Structural and Narrative Strategy in Early Modern Prose Writing
• Stuart Farley (St Andrews), The Extemporary Method in Early Modern English Prose

4.45-5.30

• Jenny Richards (Newcastle), Appealing to ‘the Physical Ear’: Thomas Nashe on Prose Style

Contact: kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk

Part of the Sir Thomas Browne Seminar: http://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/browne/

York CREMS: http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/

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THE BRITISH MILTON SEMINAR

AUTUMN MEETING, 2013

Saturday 19 October 2013

Sign up for email alerts at:

http://britishmiltonseminar.wordpress.com/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute on 19 October 2013.  There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm, and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.

We currently intend that each session will have two papers (of approx. 25-30 minutes each), for which proposals are invited.

Please send proposals to Professor Thomas N. Corns no later than 23 August 2013.

Thomas N. Corns

Joint Convener

email:els009@bangor.ac.uk<mailto:els009@bangor.ac.uk>

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For further information about the British Milton Seminar, please contact either:

Professor Thomas N. Corns (els009@bangor.ac.uk<mailto:els009@bangor.ac.uk>), or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk<mailto:h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk>).

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Summer School: “Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe” (II)

Location: Madrid, with field trips to various castles and residences in central Spain.

Date: 4-14 July 2013.

 Organisation: PALATIUM and the Fundación Carlos de Amberes, with the collaboration of Patrimonio Nacional and the Casa de Velázquez.

Supervisors: Bernardo J. García García (Fundación Carlos de Amberes), José Luis Sancho (Patrimonio Nacional), Vanessa de Cruz Medina (Fundación Carlos de Amberes).

Deadline 5 May 2013

Details here:http://www.courtresidences.eu/index.php/events/summer-school/summer-school-madrid-2013/

 This is the second PALATIUM Summer School. The first PALATIUM Summer School was held in Utrecht, July 2012.

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Description of a proposed session at the RSA meeting March 27-29, 2014 in New York

 DID WOMEN ARTISTS HAVE A REFORMATION?

Scholars across disciplines have amply demonstrated the role of women in spiritual reform, as writers, patrons (of artworks and religious orders), and in devotional practices.  Art-historical inquiry has recently turned to the involvement of some canonical artists in reform movements: women artists, however, seem absent from this discussion, despite their production of altarpieces and devotional images, as well as their connections with ecclesiastics.

This session seeks to explore women artists’ engagement with religious issues.  Is this a promising line of inquiry?  Did women tackle specific theological matters in their art?  Do they express the thoughts of a patron or religious community?  Are they motivated, moreover, by personal sentiments?  Did they align themselves with any specific currents within the Reform?  Do we have evidence of women artists attempting a specifically gendered devotion?  Paper proposals that speak to these or similar issues are invited.

Please send a paper title; an abstract (150-word maximum); keywords; and a brief curriculum vitae (300-word maximum) to Sheila ffolliott  sffollio@gmu.edu  by the end of May 2013. 

Please circulate to others whom you might think interested.

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The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women will be sponsoring five panels for next year’s RSA meeting, March 27-29, 2014 in New York.  Those interested in submitting a panel for consideration will need to send the following:  organizer’s contact information, panel title, panel description, panel participants & chair, abstracts for individual papers (150-word maximum) as well as single page curriculum vitae for each participant to Megan Matchinske, Vice President SSEMW (matchin@email.unc.edu).

Deadline May 10, 2013.

Please feel free to circulate this call too others whom you believe might be interested.

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Renaissance Society of America

Call for Papers

New York, NY, 27-29 March 2014

Early Modern Women Philosophers, Theologians, and Scientists

Organizers: Julie Campbell, Anne Larsen, and Diana Robin

 We would like to propose a series of panels on women’s participation in the areas of philosophy, theology, and science (natural philosophy) in the early modern period.

As more information comes to light about women’s participation in philosophical debates, activities involving religion and religious controversy, and their engagement in natural philosophy during the early modern period, it becomes clear that we have much to learn about the women who incorporated such interests into their lives, and, in some cases, dedicated their lives to such pursuits, whether in convents or secular society.

 From the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from Italian humanists such as Laura Cereta, Ippolita Sforza, and Cassandra Fedele, to the German reformer Katharina Schutz Zell, to French and Dutch savantes such as Marie de Gournay and Anna Maria van Schurman, to French salonnières whose salons were in large part dedicated to politics, religion, and natural philosophy, such as the Vicomtesse d’Auchy, Mme de Loges, Mme de la Sablière, and Mme Deshoulières, to English women engaged in protestant or recusant causes, such as Mary Sidney’s work on the Psalms, Anne Vaughan Locke’s engagement in Calvinism, Gertrude More, Mary Ward, and Elizabeth Cary’s recusant writings, and Margaret Cavendish’s pursuit of natural philosophy, we can see how women were critically involved in these areas of interest.

 How were such women accepted or rejected in the contexts of their activities? What means of participation did they utilize—writing, conversation, oratory, experimentation?  Where do recipes and medical experimentation intersect? What other figures have work that has been “lost” and only recently recovered in these critical areas of early modern history? Where did natural philosophy and religion intersect for such women? What sorts of educations enabled such women to participate in these areas?

Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words and a one-page C.V. by Monday 6 May, by email attachment, to each of the following:

Julie D. Campbell                                                        Diana Robin

Professor of English                                                    Scholar-in-Residence, Newberry Library

Eastern Illinois University                                          Diana.robin@rcn.com

jdcampbell@eiu.edu

 Anne R. Larsen

Professor of French

Hope College

alarsen@hope.edu

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Describing, Analysing and Identifying Early Modern Handwriting: Methods and Issues

T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Thursday 25 April, 9.15-4. Organized by the Centre for Early Modern Studies and Merton College History of the Book Group, with the co-operation of the Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book.

This one-day workshop will bring together leading early modern scholars, palaeographers and digital humanities experts from the UK, the USA, France and Italy to discuss current scholarly approaches to the description of early modern English handwriting and to explore the potential for the use of digital technologies in future collaborative work.

Although the past twenty years have seen a rapid growth in scholarship on early modern English manuscripts, the study of handwriting in the period still seems to be in its infancy. Methods of describing, distinguishing and identifying hands differ from scholar to scholar and, although the work of individual early modernists is often based on very substantial unarticulated ‘tacit knowledge’ about the dating and differentiation of script styles, little detailed work on the topic has been published. Most of the scholarship in the area focuses, in an ad hoc way, on high-status manuscripts and on the identification of hands associated with major figures. The workshop will explore the potential for future collaboration on more comprehensive and systematic ways of understanding the variation between different hands in the period. and specifically the possibilities for a new project which will aim to produce substantial publicly-available material mapping key elements in the development of English handwriting between 1500 and 1700.

There will be four sessions. Speakers in the first session will describe some of the challenges currently facing scholars working on early modern English handwriting. New ways of addressing these challenges will be described by the speakers in the second session, all of whom are involved in research applying digital technologies to palaeography. In the final formal session, a distinguished panel will discuss specific samples of early modern handwriting. Following the main sessions there will be a planning meeting to discuss potential funding bids, which will be open to any interested parties.

Registration here
Cost: £20, graduates £15

Draft Programme – subject to revision

9.15-9.30 Registration

9.30 Welcome
David Norbrook (CEMS), Julia Walworth (Librarian, Merton College)

9.35-10.45 Problems
Chair: Colin Burrow (Oxford)

Early Modern Handwriting in Theory and Practice
Jonathan Gibson (Open University)

From Hands to Heads: Chasing Elizabeth I’s Scribes
Carlo M. Bajetta (Aosta)

English or French hands? The Case of Queen Elizabeth I’s Letters in French
Guillaume Coatalen (Cergy-Pontoise)

10.45-11.00 Tea and coffee

11.00-12.30 Solutions
Chair: Daniel Wakelin (Oxford)

Forensic Handwriting Analysis
Tom Davis (Birmingham)

Digital Alphabets and Early Modern Hand Identification
Steven W. May (Sheffield)

Graphetic profiling and scribal identification
Simon Horobin (Oxford)

‘I saw it on CSI…’: Forming Digital Technology for Humanities Research
Julia Craig-McFeely (Oxford)

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-2.45 Round Table
Chair: Gabriel Heaton (Sotheby’s)

Peter Beal (Institute of English Studies, London)
William Poole (Oxford)
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford)

2.45-3.00 Tea and coffee

3.00-4.00 Open project planning meeting
Chair: Giles Bergel (Oxford)

The workshop has been timed so that delegates can also attend one of Professor Richard Beadle’s Lyell Lectures, ‘Medieval English Literary Autographs 1: Fugitive Pieces’, in the same venue at 5pm.

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Early Modern Research Centre

Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe

Friday 26 April 2013

10.30-10.45 Coffee & Registration

10.45-12.45 Session 1 (Chair: Dr Esther Mijers, University of Reading)

Dr Arjan van Dixhoorn (University of Ghent), ‘Towards a Cultural History of Literary Contest: the Case of the early Modern Low Countries’

Dr Lisa Sampson (University of Reading), ‘Amateurs Meet Professionals: Theatrical Activities in the Italian Academies’

Dr Hannah Williams (University of Oxford), ‘Le Brun vs Mignard / Academy vs Guild’

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Session 2 (Chair: Professor Joel Felix, University of Reading)

Dr Jeremy Caradonna (University of Alberta), ‘Counter-Enlightenment Reconsidered: The Example of Academic Prize Contests in Eighteenth-Century France’

Professor Allan Potofsky (University of Paris-Diderot), ‘How Revolutionary Were the French

Revolution’s Urban Planning Concours?’

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 Presentations

Dr Mark Curran (Queen Mary College), ‘The Republic of Books: Prizes, Protestant Enlightenment and Publishing in pre-Revolutionary Europe’

Dr Simone Testa (Royal Holloway), ‘The Italian Academies and their networks: collaboration or confrontation?’

17.00-17.45 Round Table & Closing comments

Professor Laurence Brockliss (University of Oxford)

 For the booking form go to: http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/EMRC/Academic_Culture_Booking_Form.pdf

Or contact Jan Cox: j.f.cox@reading.ac.uk

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Two Conferences at UCL:

Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France is a two-day academic international conference to be held at University College London, 6-7 June 2013. In nine sessions, we will address the research questions set by the AHRC-funded MFLCOF-project, thus investigating how francophone literary texts travelled across Europe (the Low Countries, the British Isles, the Mediterranean) and beyond (the Crusader Kingdoms in the Holy Land). Particular focus will be on the period between the twelfth and the fifteenth century. Keynote speakers are Dr. Frank Brandsma (Universiteit Utrecht) and Prof. Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Further information: http://www.medievalfrancophone.ac.uk/2013-conference/

Please register before 29 May d.schoenaers@ucl.ac.uk (conference fees: £15 student / lower waged; £35 waged)

The Italian Angevins: Naples and Beyond is a one-day interdisciplinary conference, focusing on the culture, history, and politics of the Angevin Regno, from 1266 to 1422. Complementing the 2013 Boccaccio Septcentenary, and immediately preceding this year’s Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France conference, we anticipate that this event will stimulate much lively discussion among scholars of diverse disciplinary interests. The keynote address will be given by Marilynn Desmond (Cambridge University). Further information: http://italianangevins2013.wordpress.com/

Please register before 29 May e.cullen.11@ucl.ac.uk (attendance is free of charge)

Additionally, we would like to draw your attention to the final seminar in our 2012-2013 MFLCOF seminar series to be held 2 May (5.30 PM) at King’s College London  (Strand Campus, K2.29, Council Room). Prof. Remco Sleiderink (HUB,Brussels)  will be talking about ‘The Ring of Hope. Guillaume de Machaut’s Remède de Fortune and the reception of French literature in the Low Countries in the 2nd half of the 14th century’. This session is co-sponsored by CLAMS.

Best wishes

 Dirk Schoenaers

University College London

Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France

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 ANNUAL
LECTURE
2013
Friday
10 May 2013
6.00 pm
At the
Kenneth Clark
Lecture Theatre
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
The Strand, London
Admission is free
All are welcome

Dr Alexander Marr
(University of Cambridge)

The Leonardo da Vinci Society

Disingenuous Ingenuity in
Renaissance Germany: The Case of
Walther Hermann Ryff

Dr Marr will discuss Walther Ryff and the imago contrafacta in relation to
treatises on anatomy, medicine and the mechanical arts. Especially at issue
will be Ryff’s ‘disingenuous ingenuity’ in his pillaging and reworking of
others’ verbal and visual matter, with additional interest in his appropriation
of the legacy of Durer in 1540s Nuremberg.

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Please find below details of the 2013 Summer term programme for the Research Seminars. (All seminars are free /open to all and taking place at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN London)                                               

EARLY MODERN

Monday, 29 April – Katrin Seyler (Andrew W Mellon Foundation / Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow –  Mellon MA): Making Knowledge in the Republic of Tools – the Mindscape of Early-Modern Journeyman Image-Makers. 6.00pm, Research Forum South Room

Joint MEDIEVAL /RENAISSANCE WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Wednesday, 24 April – Dr Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum): Illuminated Manuscripts: Art and Science. 5.30pm, Research Forum South Room

RENAISSANCE

Wednesday, 15 May – Geoff Nuttall (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Paolo Guinigi and Palla Strozzi: Lucchese Influence in Early Renaissance Florence. 5.30pm, Research Forum South Room

MEDIEVAL WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Wednesday, 22 May – Dr Robert Mills (University College London): Medieval Art and the Question of the Animal. 5.30pm, Research Forum South Room

Joint MEDIEVAL /RENAISSANCE WORK-IN-PROGRESS/Giotto’s O

Wednesday, 12 June – Professor Bram Kempers (University of Amsterdam): Duccio’s Maestà: Florence, Siena, Assisi and Rome. 5.30pm, Research Forum South Room

 All seminars are free and open to all

Further information : http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/calendar.shtml

Research Forum

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

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Warburg Institute from April to June 2013. We have an exciting and varied range of conferences, lectures and seminars between now and the end of the academic year.

 

The full events programme is available at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/AnnualProgramme2012_13.pdf  

Listed below are just a few of the conferences taking place:

• 18 May 2013 – On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light, with Dante
• 20 May 2013 – Classifying Content – Photographic Collections and Theories of Thematic Ordering (The Kress Foundation has made available funds to assist with the travel expenses of employees of Photographic Collections in the USA wishing to attend this conference – to apply email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk)
• 23 – 24 May 2013 – The Afterlife of Plutarch
• 31 May – 1 June 2013 – The Place of Hell: Topographies, Structures, Genealogies
• 14 – 15 June 2013 – The Alphabet of Nature and the Idols of the Market – Bacon on Languages, Natural and Human

Further details about all our events are available on our website at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/nc/events/

We would be grateful if you could display the Warburg programme on department notice boards and/or forward this email to any colleagues and students who you think may be interested in our events.

Warburg Institute MAs

We would also like to draw your attention to our new MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture which will take its first students in 2013-14 and is being offered jointly by the Warburg Institute and the National Gallery. The purpose of the programme is to provide high level linguistic, archive and research skills for a new generation of academic art historians and museum curators. The art historical and scholarly traditions of the Warburg Institute will be linked to the practical experience and skills of the National Gallery to provide training which will equip students either as academic art historians with serious insight into the behind the scenes working of a great museum or as curators with the research skills necessary for high-level museum work.

Further information on the new MA and on our existing MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300 – 1650 is available at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/graduate-studies/  Places are still available on both courses and we would be grateful if you could pass this information on to any of your colleagues or students who might be interested.

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English Literature University of Roehampton -Department of English and Creative Writing

 (1.0 FTE)

HR Ref No: HR64/13

 Salary: £36,630 to £48,008 pa inc

The Department of English and Creative Writing, comprising programmes in English Literature, Children’s Literature and Creative Writing, is well respected for its research and teaching excellence. This post is part of a period of strategic renewal, which has already seen five new appointments, seeking to consolidate our reputation for both traditional excellence and innovation. The successful post holder will join current colleagues in developing and extending our research and teaching profile in any aspect of English Literature from the Early Modern to the present.

We are seeking to appoint a full-time, without term Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. The department is particularly keen to hear from candidates who would complement existing research strengths in Early Modern, Romanticism, Victorian, Twentieth-Century, American Literature, and Children’s Literature. You will need to have completed a PhD or equivalent with a profile of high quality research publications in your discipline and a clear research plan. The appointee will be expected to help build the excellent research reputation of the Department of English and Creative Writing by engaging in high quality research.

The University of Roehampton is set on a beautiful, traditional campus in south-west London. The University provides its students with exceptional facilities, high quality teaching and a close-knit, collegiate experience.

 Roehampton has a diverse student body and a cosmopolitan outlook, with students from over 130 countries. The University is committed to a strong research culture, with two of its departments ranked the best in the country. Roehampton is on an ambitious trajectory and seeks to build on its increasing popularity by developing an innovative and distinctive portfolio.

Please note that CVs alone will not be considered.

Closing date, no later than 5.00pm: Monday 6 May 2013

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Please find below details of:

Light, Colour, Veils – a conference to be held on 1^st June at The Courtauld Institute of Art.

Ticket/entry details: £16 (£11 students, Courtauld staff and concessions): Book online here: http://courtauld-institute.digitalmuseum.co.uk

Further information here: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2013/summer/jun01_LightColourVeils.shtml

With best wishes,

Research Forum

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

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https://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=228613F4

Temporary Lecturer in English, 1500-1660 English

Location:  Avenue Campus

Salary:   £27,854 to £31,331

Full Time Fixed Term

Closing Date:   Wednesday 29 May 2013

Interview Date:   To be confirmed

Reference:  228613F4

Fixed term for 1 year

Following the award of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to Dr Alice Hunt, the Department of English invites applications for the post of a Lecturer in English. We are looking for an outstanding early career academic, who has published high quality research, and can demonstrate an excellent track record in teaching. The appointment is for one year, full time, and it is anticipated that the successful candidate will take up the post on 1 August 2013.

The Department of English at the University of Southampton demonstrates excellence in all periods of English Literature, and includes strengths in Creative Writing, Film, and Digital Humanities. We have a dynamic and collaborative research culture, both within and across periods, and enjoy strong interdisciplinary links with other departments in the Faculty of Humanities and the wider university. We have an excellent reputation for teaching, valuing both research-led teaching and teaching-led research, and are committed to knowledge exchange and public engagement.

You will possess an excellent honours degree, a completed doctorate in the literature, history, and culture of the Early Modern period, and an eagerness to contribute to the intellectual and creative culture of the department. An interest in Shakespeare and Early Modern drama would be an advantage.

 Further information about the department and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture can be found atwww.soton.ac.uk/English.

I nformal enquiries may be made to Professor Ros King, Head of Department (r.king@soton.ac.uk).

 The closing date for applications is Wednesday 29 May 2013. Please apply throughwww.jobs.soton.ac.uk. Please quote vacancy reference number 228613F4 on all correspondence.

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