Department of English Studies

11 March 2010: New MLitt in Creative Writing

23 February 2010: Department of English Studies – 2010-11 Postgraduate Tuition Fee Bursaries

The Department of English Studies is pleased to offer 11 postgraduate tuition fee bursaries for students beginning a postgraduate programme (taught or research) in September 2010. All the Department’s postgraduate degrees are included in this scheme (MLitt, MRes, MSc, MPhil and PhD), and all applicants should use the same Postgraduate Bursary Application Form.

The Department particularly welcomes new PhD proposals on topics related to the Department’s own research interests and strengths. Prospective applicants should consult the Departmental website for context, and make their initial enquries regarding a PhD proposal via the Head of Department, Professor John Drakakis (john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk).

Student Eligibility

In order to be considered, you must already have been offered a place on one of our postgraduate programmes (taught or research) by 2 July 2010. If you hold a conditional offer, you are still eligible to apply. Applicants should not already be holding an external funding award for the 2010-11 academic session, but they may of course be in the process of applying for other awards (e.g. AHRC, University Studentships, SORSAS, Carnegie). Applications will be ranked according to academic merit by a departmental awards committee. Award holders will be notified in July-August 2010.

How to Apply

Students applying for entry to either a taught or research postgraduate programme, including the MRes (Humanities), and wishing to be considered for these bursaries, should complete our Departmental Postgraduate Bursary Application Form, and submit it to Alison Scott (Postgraduate Secretary) by 2 July 2010.

Value of the Bursaries

For 2010-11 the Department will award:

• Five £1000 Master’s tuition fee awards for the MLitt, MSc and MRes programmes (available to both Home/EU and O/S students)*
• Two bursaries equivalent to the value of fees for full-time home/EU postgraduate students (available for both taught and research applicants, across all programmes)
• Four £2000 Research tuition fee awards available for MPhil and PhD applicants (available to both Home/EU and O/S students)

All bursary awards will be for one year (academic session 2010/11).

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

Submission Deadline

In order to be eligible, you must submit your application for admission to one of our postgraduate programmes in time for it to be fully processed, and an offer (conditional or unconditional) to be made, by 2 July 2010. Ideally your application for admission will have been made much earlier; certainly you should aim to complete it by early June to ensure your eligibility for the bursaries competition.

2 July 2010 is also the deadline to submit your Postgraduate Bursary Application Form to Alison Scott, at the address below.

Alison Scott,

Postgraduate Secretary

Department of English Studies,

University of Stirling

Stirling, FK9 4LA

Telephone: 01786 467510

Email: alison.scott@stir.ac.uk  

NB Applications by email will be accepted.  Applications by fax will not.

*Including the Department’s MLitts in English Studies, the Gothic Imagination, Modern Scottish Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Publishing Studies; the MSc in International Publishing Management; the MRes in Humanities. See www.english.stir.ac.uk for details of each programme.

17 February 2010: New Studentships and Bursaries

The University of Stirling is offering over 50 Postgraduate Research Studentships for students beginning PhD studies in 2010-11. These Studentships include full tuition fees at UK/EU rates, an annual stipend at UK Research Council rates (currently £13,489), and research expenses of £750 per year.

In order to qualify for consideration, applicants must have received a formal offer of acceptance as a PhD candidate by 17 March 2010.

We would particularly welcome PhD proposals on topics related to the Department’s own research interests, including Medieval and Early Modern Writing and Drama; 18th-Century Literature; 20th-Century Postcolonial Literatures; Victorian Literature; Scottish Literature; the Gothic (eighteenth century to present); American Literature; Textual Culture; Creative Writing; Publishing Studies; and Discourse Analysis. 

Further information on the Studentships scheme may be found on the following link:  http://www.external.stir.ac.uk/future/studentships.htm

Informal enquiries about the Studentship scheme should be addressed to the Departmental Director of Research, Dr Dale Townshend.

To discuss applying for PhD studies (a precondition of applying for the Studentships), please email the Head of Department, Professor John Drakakis.

29 September 09: The 6th biennial conference on Robert Louis Stevenson will be held 8-10 July 2010, at the University of Stirling. Confirmed speakers include Laura Marcus and James Robertson. Call for Papers and full details of the conference (including the social programme and registration details) can be found at the conference website. Please submit your proposal by 1 March 2010.  

Please note that a discounted conference fee is available for those whose register early.

03 March 09: Mullaney Lecture - Professor Steven Mullaney of the University of Michigan will present "Affective Irony: Towards an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage" in Pathfoot Lecture Theatre. This event will be followed by the launch of the first issue of the new, freely accessible e-journal, The Journal of Northern Renaissance Studies, a collaborative enterprise involving the Universities of Stirling, Strathclyde and Glasgow.

6 January 09: The Department is delighted to announce details of its Departmental Bursary for 2009-10. Click here for an application form. Closing date is Friday 29 May 2009.

5-6 December 08: Globalgothic: Technology, Media, Horror.

An Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference at the University of Stirling