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.

Applications Process
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

Job Title: Two One-Year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Nineteenth-Century Studies (any discipline)
Cambridge University
Salary: 27,319 per annum
Limit of tenure: One Year (to end 30 September 2011).
Quote Reference: GE06658

Closing Date: 18 June 2010 Interview Date: 20/07/2010

The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group of Cambridge University, in association with the Leverhulme Trust, intends to appoint two Research Fellows for one year from 1 October 2010 to work on its project, 'Past vs. Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress'.

Those working on any relevant aspect of 19th-century British culture, including but not limited to History of Science, History, Theology, Classical Tradition, Egyptology, Literature, Cultural Studies, Music, Archaeology, Art, Museology, are invited to apply. Candidates may be at any stage in their academic career but must have submitted a PhD before October 2010.

Further details and an application form, CHRIS 6 (please only complete Parts 1 and 3), can be obtained from Carolyn Bartley, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue , Cambridge CB3 9DA , or from cb520@cam.ac.uk. Completed applications should be sent to the same address by Friday June 18th. Applications should include a covering letter, the completed CHRIS 6 form, a detailed curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, a writing sample, and a statement of research, which should be no longer than 2,000 words. Please quote the vacancy reference number on all correspondence.

The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK . Therefore, before you commence work, the University must confirm your eligibility to live and work in the UK . To confirm eligibility you will be asked to bring certain original documents to your interview and a copy will be taken. All offers of employment are made subject to verification of eligibility to work in the UK.