Literature and Languages

16 June 2011

SINRS ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BRITISH SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION
KNOWN AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES IN THE RENAISSANCE

Saturday 16 July 2011, University of Stirling, Pathfoot Building Room C1/2 - programme details and registration form

6 June 2011

AHRC BGP Studentships - NOW CLOSED - DETAILS OF 2012/13 STUDENTSHIPS

The University of Stirling and Strathclyde University have been awarded an AHRC Block Grant Partnership for 2011-13, for 19 studentships over 3 years. Studentships can be held at either the University of Stirling or the University of Strathclyde. There are opportunities for joint supervision of doctoral projects. Applications for studentships are invited in the following eligible subject areas for 2011-12:

• Creative Writing: 1 Professional Preparation Masters award
• English Language & Literature: 1 Research Preparation Masters award
• History: 1 Research Preparation Masters award
• Journalism and Publishing Studies: 1 Professional Preparation Masters award
• Librarianship, Archives, Record Management and Information Science: 1 Doctoral and 1 Professional Preparation Masters award

The deadline for AHRC BGP studentship applications is Friday 10 June 2011. Full details of eligible subject areas and programmes, and how to apply, can be found at: http://www.artsandhumanitiesconsortium.org.uk/Studentships.aspx

31 May 2011

***NOW CLOSED-2012/13 DETAILS TO FOLLOW***

Deadline now extended to 31 July 2011

School of Arts & Humanities Postgraduate Tuition Fee Bursaries 2011/12- Taught Postgraduate

The School of Art & Humanites is pleased to offer a number of postgraduate tuition fee bursaries for students starting on the the following postgraduate programmes in September 2011:-

MLitt in Creative Writing

MLitt in English Language & Linguistics

MRes Translation Studies

LLM/MSc in Financial Services Regulation

MSc in Strategic Public Relations

MLitt in Film Studies

The Departments hope that the successful Masters applicants will wish to continue to PhD study within the School. Bursary students will be given every support in applying for external research funding, including the highly competitive AHRC Studentship scheme.

Students applying for entry and wishing to be considered for these bursaries, should complete our Postgraduate Bursary Application Form, and submit it to arts.administrator@stir.ac.uk now extended to 31 July 2011.

31 May 2011

**Deadline now extended to 31 July 2011**

School of Arts & Humanities Postgraduate Tuition Fee Bursaries 2011/12 - Research

The School of Arts & Humanities is please to offer a number of postgraduate tuition fee bursaries for students starting a research degree programme in September 2011.

Students applying for entry and wishing to be considered for these bursaries, should complete our Postgraduate Bursary Application Form, and submit it to arts.administrator@stir.ac.uk now extended to 31 Juy 2011.

24 May 2011

FULLY-FUNDED AHRC PHD STUDENTSHIP

The University of Stirling is pleased to invite applications for a  three-year Doctoral Studentship, fully funded by the AHRC (UK/EU rate), to commence on 1  September  2011. Further particulars

23 May 2011

English Studies Postgraduate Newsletter

English Studies is pleased to annouce it's first Newsletter specifically for applicants to our postgraduate programmes.

19 May 2011

Poetry and Melancholia,

The 5th international Poetry Conference, English Studies,Stirling, "We must dedicate ourselves to melancholy, it is the only reasonable way now." Klaus Mann,7-9th July

9 May 2011

SINRS One-Day Symposium in conjunction with the British Shakespeare Association

Papers are invited for a one-day symposium on ‘Known and Imagined Communities in the Renaissance’, and proposals should be submitted to the following address by Monday 30 May, 2011; papers should be no longer than 15 mins. duration (10pp. double-spaced typed A4):
Professor J. Drakakis, School of Arts & Humanities, English Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland. Email: John Drakakis

21 February 2011

New Creative Writing Website

07 February 2011

Journal of Stevenson Studies update!

02 February 2011:-

New for September 2011! -  MLitt in English Language and Linguistics. Please contact Dr Andrew Smith (andrew.smith@stir.ac.uk) or Dr Bethan Benwell (b.m.benwell@stir.ac.uk) for further details.

02 February 2011

AHRC Success

Emeritus Professor Neil H Keeble has won a major AHRC grant (c. £360K) to support work on a scholarly edition of Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696), Richard Baxter’s posthumously published autobiographical papers.

There has been no subsequent edition of this major text, comparable to Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon and Burnet as a first-hand witness to the revolutionary events of the seventeenth century, and comparable too in scale (a million or so words in length). About half the original manuscript is extant in Dr Williams’s Library, London, and in the British Library. The new edition will restore these manuscript readings when available, and will give the first full account of the work’s composition, the process of its publication and reception, and its subsequent significance. The hundreds of persons mentioned will be identified, and there will be a full editorial apparatus.

Professor Keeble leads an editorial team consisting of Professor John Coffey (University of Leicester) and Dr Tim Cooper (Otago University). The AHRC grant provides in addition for a three-year Research Assistant, a PhD studentship, and support for associated events and other costs. The project has the strong support of the Trustees of Dr. Williams’s Library, and is described on the website of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies.

It has received funding also from a British Academy/Association of Commonwealth Universities Grant for International Collaboration, from the Humanities Research Fund of the University of Otago, and from an AHRC Small Research Grant. Submission of the copy is due at the end of 2015.