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About the Project
PhD IN THE HISTORY OF ART -- VICTORIAN PERIOD (THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART)
‘The American West in Graphic Reportage’
Collaborative research project undertaken by The Courtauld Institute of Art, King’s College London, and University College London
Three-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship for a doctoral study on Victorian illustration and graphic reportage. The student will conduct research on the ways in which America was represented in Britain in the period. The student will have the opportunity to consider methods of transmitting material to Britain, the type of reporting, the artistic conventions employed, techniques of reproduction, audiences and distribution systems for this journalism and the social context in Britain for the consumption of material relating to America, urban centres, the Civil War, wars with native American peoples and the exploration, settlement and exploitation of territories to the west following the building of the Pacific Railroad completed in 1869. This doctoral research will lend a specific dimension to the project’s engagement with issues of news, and information. The project will ask what was the range of British public commentary and graphic imagery produced in response to the drama and developing technology associated with the telegraph.
The student will be based at The Courtauld Institute of Art and will be supervised by Professor Caroline Arscott. Informal enquiries may be made to Caroline Arscott ([Email Address Removed])
PROJECT OUTLINE
Between 1857 and 1866 the public’s attention was caught by the drama of the repeated attempts to lay a submarine cable across the Atlantic for the transmission of telegraphic messages. This project draws on discussions of twenty-first-century digital culture and its limit points to establish why it is that the scrambling of messages was as significant for Victorian culture at large as the sending of flawless messages. The enquiry will move between material objects and conceptual ideas.
The project will transform the cataloguing and web presentation of the Wheatstone Collection of scientific papers and instruments held by KCL. Wheatstone (1802-1875) was a pioneer in the technologies of the telegraph. We will consider apparatus and instruments such as the induction relay, galvanometers, voltaic batteries and telegraph transmitters and receivers, and indeed the armoured cable itself in terms of their functions and materials. The problems exercising inventors and technicians will offer us sets of opposing terms with which to look into Victorian culture such as proximity/distance and conductivity/impedance. We are looking to assemble a dynamic and imaginative project team of an Archivist, Cataloguer, Postdoctoral Researcher, and two PhDs to work on this innovative and interdisciplinary project.
Formal Application to be made to Postgraduate Admissions, The Courtauld, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN Enquiries regarding the formal application to [Email Address Removed]
Closing Date: 10th June 2013; Interview Date: 17th June 2013
Please submit the documents required for a standard route application to the MPhil/PhD programme as specified on the Courtauld website http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/research#apply
The requirement to contact a member of teaching staff prior to submitting the application (to determine whether he/she can take on your project) is not relevant in the case of this AHRC-funded project studentship. The Courtauld will be taking on a student to study the topic (and to participate in the wider activities of the research project). Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview on 17th June 2013
Complete applications should include:
• Completed application form: this includes a 500 word personal statement which should articulate the approach you will take
within the subject area stipulated for the studentship. In the section on Source of Funding you should tick the box
marked ‘other’ and say ‘AHRC project funding’
• Two confidential academic references, in signed, sealed envelopes
• A transcript of your academic record from your university
• Written work (3-5,000 words).
• A photocopy of the photo page and relevant biodata from your passport
• English proficiency certificate (if applicable)
• Two recent passport photographs
The deadline mentioned on the website for the standard route (Feb 1st 2013) obviously does not apply for this special AHRC-funded project studentship nor do the arrangements for requesting scholarship support. The application deadline has now been revised to 10th June 2014. NB applications already submitted will be considered – no need to re-apply.
The Courtauld Institute of Art promotes equal opportunities
‘The American West in Graphic Reportage’
Collaborative research project undertaken by The Courtauld Institute of Art, King’s College London, and University College London
Three-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship for a doctoral study on Victorian illustration and graphic reportage. The student will conduct research on the ways in which America was represented in Britain in the period. The student will have the opportunity to consider methods of transmitting material to Britain, the type of reporting, the artistic conventions employed, techniques of reproduction, audiences and distribution systems for this journalism and the social context in Britain for the consumption of material relating to America, urban centres, the Civil War, wars with native American peoples and the exploration, settlement and exploitation of territories to the west following the building of the Pacific Railroad completed in 1869. This doctoral research will lend a specific dimension to the project’s engagement with issues of news, and information. The project will ask what was the range of British public commentary and graphic imagery produced in response to the drama and developing technology associated with the telegraph.
The student will be based at The Courtauld Institute of Art and will be supervised by Professor Caroline Arscott. Informal enquiries may be made to Caroline Arscott ([Email Address Removed])
PROJECT OUTLINE
Between 1857 and 1866 the public’s attention was caught by the drama of the repeated attempts to lay a submarine cable across the Atlantic for the transmission of telegraphic messages. This project draws on discussions of twenty-first-century digital culture and its limit points to establish why it is that the scrambling of messages was as significant for Victorian culture at large as the sending of flawless messages. The enquiry will move between material objects and conceptual ideas.
The project will transform the cataloguing and web presentation of the Wheatstone Collection of scientific papers and instruments held by KCL. Wheatstone (1802-1875) was a pioneer in the technologies of the telegraph. We will consider apparatus and instruments such as the induction relay, galvanometers, voltaic batteries and telegraph transmitters and receivers, and indeed the armoured cable itself in terms of their functions and materials. The problems exercising inventors and technicians will offer us sets of opposing terms with which to look into Victorian culture such as proximity/distance and conductivity/impedance. We are looking to assemble a dynamic and imaginative project team of an Archivist, Cataloguer, Postdoctoral Researcher, and two PhDs to work on this innovative and interdisciplinary project.
Formal Application to be made to Postgraduate Admissions, The Courtauld, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN Enquiries regarding the formal application to [Email Address Removed]
Closing Date: 10th June 2013; Interview Date: 17th June 2013
Please submit the documents required for a standard route application to the MPhil/PhD programme as specified on the Courtauld website http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/research#apply
The requirement to contact a member of teaching staff prior to submitting the application (to determine whether he/she can take on your project) is not relevant in the case of this AHRC-funded project studentship. The Courtauld will be taking on a student to study the topic (and to participate in the wider activities of the research project). Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview on 17th June 2013
Complete applications should include:
• Completed application form: this includes a 500 word personal statement which should articulate the approach you will take
within the subject area stipulated for the studentship. In the section on Source of Funding you should tick the box
marked ‘other’ and say ‘AHRC project funding’
• Two confidential academic references, in signed, sealed envelopes
• A transcript of your academic record from your university
• Written work (3-5,000 words).
• A photocopy of the photo page and relevant biodata from your passport
• English proficiency certificate (if applicable)
• Two recent passport photographs
The deadline mentioned on the website for the standard route (Feb 1st 2013) obviously does not apply for this special AHRC-funded project studentship nor do the arrangements for requesting scholarship support. The application deadline has now been revised to 10th June 2014. NB applications already submitted will be considered – no need to re-apply.
The Courtauld Institute of Art promotes equal opportunities
Funding Notes
Since this is an AHRC studentship it is open to UK residents who have been resident for at least three years before the start of the studentship and have indefinite right to stay, and to EEA (European Economic Area) residents. Overseas applicants (non EU) are normally not eligible. The full studentship covers fees and a contribution to maintenance. The studentship covers fees only for EEA-based students.
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