Vacant Posts in Reception Studies
Interdisciplinary PhD Studentship in Digital Humanities, Conceptualizing Space in a Digital World, Faculty of Arts |
Based at The Open University in Milton Keynes, One full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 January 2011 |
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circulation date : 14/10/2010 |
closing date : 05/11/2010 |
Digital Humanities at The Open University is a rapidly growing area of research. The proposed studentship is aimed at exploring the application of geographical concepts to research in the Arts and Humanities, and the ways in which they are represented, in the digital medium. We would welcome applications from candidates with an appropriate research proposal in any discipline studied in The Open University Faculty of Arts, ie Art History, Classical Studies, English, History, Music, Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Projects which will benefit from supervision across traditional disciplinary boundaries are particularly encouraged. Also encouraged are proposals with links to one of our existing research groups or collaborative projects.
Further details of Digital Humanities-related research at The Open University can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml
Closing date: 5 November 2010. Interviews will be held during week of 22 November 2010.
For application details please go to: www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=5367&ref=ext
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PhD Studentship Opportunity 2010-13
Staging the Greeks in Halifax:
Productions of Ancient Greek Drama by Northern Broadsides Theatre Company
This AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award offers an exciting opportunity to pursue a fully-funded PhD with one of the UK’s major contemporary theatre companies in collaboration with the Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome in the Classics Department at Royal Holloway University of London. The project will be co-supervised by Edith Hall, Research Professor in Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, and, at Northern Broadsides, by Barrie Rutter (Artistic Director) and Sue Andrews (Executive Director).
About the project
The PhD student, who will be enrolled at Royal Holloway University of London, will investigate Northern Broadsides' contribution to the recent national and international revival of ancient Greek drama in performance.
S/he will study its production of adaptations and translations by authors including Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Blake Morrison and Tom Paulin. The student will conduct research into the company’s archival materials in Halifax and the Capital Centre, Warwick University, in addition to spending several months with the company observing rehearsals, conducting interviews, and organising outreach events with the public. The specialist knowledge of the artistic directors of Northern Broadsides (Barrie Rutter and Conrad
Nelson) will enhance the student’s study of the company’ use of a regional idiom in the linguistic/cultural 'translation' of ancient theatre to a modern context. The findings will then be contextualised within the existing international bibliography on the performance of ancient drama.
Applicants must (1) apply to Royal Holloway for a place to read for a full-time PhD in the Classics Department
(https://apply.embark.com/grad/royalholloway/94/) and (2) email Edith Hall on edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk with a request for a departmental application form.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 11th June 2010. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held in Halifax at Northern Broadsides on Monday 28th June. All nominations are subject to nomination and approval by the AHRC.
Further Information
Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome: see www.rhul.ac.uk/research/CRGR/Index.html
Northern Broadsides: see http://www.northern-broadsides.co.uk/.
For the Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Awards
Scheme: see
www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/CollaborativeDoctoralAwards.aspx
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