Prof B Carey
No more applications being accepted
Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
This project supports new research into the literary and cultural history of slavery and abolition in the period 1660 to 1838. This period, which in England begins with the formation of the Royal African Company to trade in slaves between Africa and British colonies in America, and concludes with the abolition of slavery in British colonies, has been the subject of considerable research by literary scholars in the past forty years, but substantial gaps in our knowledge remain. In particular, there have been few literary approaches to scientific writing about slavery in this period, relatively few studies of antislavery writing in relation to broader networks of activism, especially before 1790, and very few studies of antislavery beyond the main urban centres and networks. While applications to conduct research into any aspect of slavery, abolition, and the African diaspora in the Black Atlantic in this period are welcome, we would especially encourage applications that look at writing by, or about, Africans in the Black Atlantic, about antislavery, abolitionism, and/or resistance as social or political activism, especially in the British regions, and discourses of slavery and abolition in relation to the life sciences such as environment, ecology, medicine, evolution, and the development of (and opposition to) pseudoscientific racial ideologies. As well as applications focusing on writing and culture of the period 1660 to 1838, we would also welcome applications that investigate recent or contemporary memories or interpretations of historical slavery and abolition in literature, public discourse, and/or as provided by heritage organisations.
The Northumbria University 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.
• Applicants cannot apply for this funding if currently engaged in Doctoral study at Northumbria or elsewhere.
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 note: Applications that do not include a research proposal of approximately 1,000 words (not a copy of the advert), or that do not include the advert reference (e.g. RDF18/…) will not be considered.
Deadline for applications: 28 January 2018
Start Date: 1 October 2018
Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers
Funding Notes
The studentship includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates (for 2017/18, this is £14,553 pa) and fees
References
Major and recent publications by Professor Brycchan Carey:
Literary Histories of the Early Caribbean: Islands in the Stream, ed Nicole Aljoe, Brycchan Carey, and Thomas Krise (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 14 April 2018). ISBN 978-3319715919
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789) edited with an introduction and notes by Brycchan Carey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11 January 2018). ISBN 978 0198707523.
‘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, 2016), pp. 21–38.
‘Anthony Benezet, Antislavery Rhetoric and the Age of Sensibility’, Quaker Studies, 21:2 (2016): 7–24.
‘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.
Quakers and Abolition, edited with an introduction by Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014). ISBN 978-0252038266
‘To Force a Tear: Antislavery on the Eighteenth- Century London Stage’, in Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic: 1770–1830, ed Stephen Ahern (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 109–128.
From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). ISBN 978-0300180770.
Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the British Abolition Act of 1807 (Essays and Studies in Romanticism Series, 2007), edited with an introduction by Brycchan Carey and Peter Kitson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007). ISBN 1 8438 4120 7.
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). ISBN 1 4039 4626 4.
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760- 1838, eds. Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ISBN 1 4039 1647 0.
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