Prof B Carey
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Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
Northumbria’s Environmental Humanities Research Group is part of the new Institute of the Humanities, an initiative that brings together a range of disciplines to foster multidisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and cross-fertilisation. This research project encourages new research in the environmental humanities through a focus on literature, nature, and the environment. It seeks to consider the multiple ways in which writers across the centuries have sought to represent, understand, and interact with the natural world, whether as poets, novelists, philosophers, scientists, gardeners, explorers, colonists, or activists. It encourages enquiry into contemporary discourses of environmental change and crisis as well as historical approaches to writing about the natural world from the sixteenth century onwards. We invite applications to study any contemporary or historical aspect of literature, nature, and the environment, but suggested topics include: pioneers of nature writing from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; scientific writing and travel literature; colonial and postcolonial engagements with the natural environment; ecocriticism and ecotheory; town and country in literature; post-apocalyptic and dystopian visons; pastoral poetry; novels of rural and regional life; the ‘new nature writing’; animals and plants in literature, environmental activism, and the environmental literature of the north. Proposals that seek to combine study of two or more of these topics, or any other related area, are strongly encouraged.
The University of Northumbria has a large and lively postgraduate community in the Humanities. Our PhD students benefit from generous research space and resources in the recently expanded Glenamara Centre as well as the new Institute of the Humanities. PhD students develop a portfolio of skills and competencies through the Humanities Training Programme, the Teaching Shadowing Scheme, the annual PhD conference and the Graduate School’s Professional Development and Research Training Programme. In addition, students are provided with a research allowance for conference attendance and travel as well as funding to support the organisation and development of research networks, conferences, and seminar series.
Eligibility and How to Apply
Please note eligibility requirement:
• Academic excellence of the proposed student i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities [preference for 1st class honours]); or a Masters (preference for Merit or above); or APEL evidence of substantial practitioner achievement.
• Appropriate IELTS score, if required (evidence required by 1 August 2017).
For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/
Please ensure you quote the advert reference above on your application form.
Deadline for applications: 20 January 2017
Start Date: 2 October 2017
Northumbria University is an equal opportunities provider and in welcoming applications for studentships from all sectors of the community we strongly encourage applications from women and under-represented groups.
Funding Notes
This project is being considered for funding in competition with other projects, through one of two types of funding packages available:
• Fully funded studentships include a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates for 2017/18 (this is yet to be set, in 2016/17 this is £14,296 pa) and fees (Home/EU £4,350 / International £13,000 / International Lab-based £16,000), and are available to applicants worldwide.
• As Northumbria celebrates its 25th anniversary as a University and in line with our international outlook, some projects may also be offered to students from outside of the EU supported by a half-fee reduction.
References
‘Anthony Benezet, Antislavery Rhetoric and the Age of Sensibility’, Quaker Studies, 21:2 (2016): 7–24.
‘From Guinea to Guernsey and Cornwall to the Caribbean: Remembering Slavery in the Western English Channel’, in Britain’s Memory of Slavery: Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’, ed Katie Donnington, Ryan Hanley, and Jessica Moody (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 30 September 2016), pp. 21–38.
‘“A new discovery of a new world”: the Moon and America in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European literature’, in Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery: From Copernicus to Flamsteed, ed Judy A. Hayden (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 167–82.
‘Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith’, in Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety, ed Joanna Fowler and Allan Ingram (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 117–132.
‘The Poetics of Radical Abolitionism: Ann Yearsley’s Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade’, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 34:1 (Spring 2015): 89–105.
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