AHRC/CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University of London in collaboration with the Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai. Read more
The writer to the critic. ‘…pure thought and the quest for truth per se can never aspire to anything but to the discovery of some kind of form’ (Valéry to Souday). Read more
Aim. This project will explore the idea of a distinctively indigenous and responsive tradition of popular SF aimed at a younger readership before the widespread influence of imported US comics and pulp SF after WW II. Read more
Emerging out of traditions of law and literature, critical legal studies, and law and popular culture, cultural legal studies is an international field that has recently emerged at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary study of law. Read more
The UK and Scottish governments have recently established new guidelines for Sex and Relationship Education (SRE). It is striking that in the consultation phases only a tiny fraction of the respondents disclosed that they were pupils. Read more
This Applied Research Collaborative Studentship, supported by the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), offers a position for an… Read more
Supported by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), this studentship offers a unique opportunity to contribute new knowledge and insight within traditional tapestry practice as a structure for smart and e-textile development in partnership with Dovecot Studios and researchers from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) and the University of Edinburgh (UoE). Read more
Current scholarship on the English Reformation is focused on the ways in which the clash between conversion and confessionalization facilitated the growth of modern ideas of personal identity. Read more
This project examines ways in which the literary “space” of texts by, about, or produced in Windsor Forest during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries maps on to, challenges, and re-imagines the geographical, topographical and cultural spaces of the Forest. Read more
Hazardous alcohol consumption is the most prevalent public health concern on university campuses in the UK and Ireland. Student-athletes have been identified as being particularly at risk for hazardous drinking and, importantly, also highly resistant to current alcohol interventions. Read more
PROJECT DESCRIPTION. The First World War was a truly global conflict, despite the enduring attention paid to Western Front narratives representing allied powers. Read more
This project will examine the way literature has represented and responded to the phenomenon of suicide terrorism - from Conrad’s The Secret Agent (2007) to Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack {2007) and beyond. Read more
This project examines the way recent narratives of 9/11 have dealt with the problem(s) of American exceptionalism. what strategies have authors, directors and artists adopted to meaningfully represent 9/11 without reinforcing exceptionalist rhetoric. Read more
