Fellowships at UCLA

The following fellowships are sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the Clark Libary.

The Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship Program for 2010–11

Cultures of Aestheticism—before and after Oscar Wilde, directed by Clark Professor Joseph Bristow

The program, which is based at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, invites applications from humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the ways in which post-Kantian traditions develop theories and practices that address beliefs in l’art pour l’art. The fellowships will be of interest to scholars who wish to make use of the resources of the Clark Library’s extensive archive of materials relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle. If prospective applicants have any questions about the fellowship, they are welcome to send them to Professor Bristow at jbristow@humnet.ucla.edu.

Eligible: Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2004 and no later than September 30, 2010). Scholars’ research must pertain to the announced theme.

Awards: Three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark Library

Stipend: $37,500 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar

Application deadline: 1 February 2010
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Clark Short-Term Fellowships

Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark's collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.

Stipend: $2,500 per month.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010
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ASECS/Clark Fellowships

Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.

Stipend: $2,500 for the month of residency.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010
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Kanner Fellowship in British Studies

This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and pre-doctoral scholars.

Stipend: $7,500 for the three-month tenure.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010
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Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship

Sponsored jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.

Stipend: $5,000 for two months in residence.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010

Hello, world.

I'd thought I'd inaugurate my inaugural Blog post with a piece of writing advice. These writing tips could become a regular feature of this Blog if a) I remember to do them; and b) You don't hate them.

So: Writing Tip #1

Tuck tag lines between quotations of two sentences or more rather than placing them at the end. This way, what is said, rather than who is saying it, is emphasized.

Instead of: “You’re not my friend. You’re my bitterest enemy,” Alfred said. Write: “You’re not my friend,” Alfred said. “You’re my bitterest enemy.”

Please note: None of the six Alfreds I know considers me his enemy. So this is not an autobiographical example. Unless that ominous knocking on the door is Alfred.

Molly Brodak, MFA Alumna, wins Prestigious Iowa Poetry Prize

Please click on the link below for more information:

http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/buzz/index.html

CFP: College English Association Conference

Call for Papers

The 41st Annual College English Association Conference

March 25-7, 2010 – San Antonio, Texas

For additional information, see: www2.widener.edu/~cea

Conference Theme: Voices

Electronic submissions open on August 21 and close on November 1, 2009. Abstracts for proposals should be between 200 and 500 words in length and should include a title.

CFP: American Periodicals and Visual Culture

In Fall 2010 American Periodicals will be publishing a special issue on “American Periodicals and Visual Culture”, guest edited by Janice Simon. Although periodical scholarship has traditionally tended to emphasize the word, visual imagery of all sorts has been an important component of periodicals, even before our post-modern visual deluge.

We are calling for essays that will address any aspect of visual culture in American periodicals from the colonial period through WW II, including but not limited to the intersections and ironies of text and image juxtapositions; the meaning of visual ephemera-frontispiece or margin illustrations, headings, advertisements, magazine covers, cartoons, photographic inserts; the role of a specific art editor, director, or reviewer; studies of periodicals devoted to the visual arts; the importance of the photographic or illustrated essay.

For consideration for the Special Issue on "American Periodicals and Visual Culture," please submit your essay by January 1, 2010 to amper@osu.edu. For more information about the journal, including submission guidelines and style sheet, please see our website at: http://americanperiodicals.osu.edu/

TCH PS: And wasn't something very close to this last year's prosem topic? Coff! Paper revision! Coff!

CLC: Syllabus Archive

The Center For Literary Computing reminds you of the Knowledgebase syllabus archive:

The Knowledgebase project has created a searchable syllabus archive
(http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/kbase/), which is an ongoing compilation of syllabuses from our English department. The archive contains English Department syllabuses from 1999 to the present. This is a valuable resource for everyone - teachers, students, and researchers:

* Teachers preparing a course can compare syllabi from previous versions of a course, find a selection of anthologies that have been used in the past, and get ideas for companion-readings to accompany a text that they plan to include in their own course.

* Students can search for particular professors and instructors to get a better idea of the kinds of courses, course requirements, and so on they might expect. Or, they can look through a variety of syllabi for a course they are planning to take.

* Scholars can research the varying ways that texts are taught and the background materials associated with them across the department's offerings, from introductory through more specialized and graduate courses.

In an effort to keep the syllabus archive alive and well, we hope that you'll be willing to contribute your own syllabus to the project. If you are willing to participate, please send your syllabus in the form of a .doc or .pdf file to Lindsey Joyce at ljoyce1@mix.wvu.edu.

Free Stuff!

Okay, this is a pretty exciting find. The British Library is making its sound archive available to the public! An article at The Guardian explains a little more. Classical music, traditional songs, dialect recordings, oral histories and wildlife recordings...Free!

More Importantly: included is a gigantic collection of talks from the Institute of Contemporary Arts. This will link you directly to the list of lectures devoted to literature, featuring (as a very small preview) such notables as Iris Murdoch, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro and Kurt Vonnegut. The moderators sound appropriately British and Vonnegut sounds appropriately... like you'd expect. Brilliant!

Enjoy!

Game Plan

In marked contrast to my colleagues, who have some class and who are thus leery of using the blog for obvious self-promotion, I'd like to take this opportunity to unveil my new game plan: I'm going to become a minor celebrity through my academic writing.

Goal: Partying with lesser Kardashians and Jenners, abusive items about me posted on Gawker and Jezebel, possibly a reality tv show.

The Background: A few years back I did a paper for a conference on the Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski entitled "Logjammin’ and Gutterballs: Masculinities in The Big Lebowski.” An edited collection of the conference papers, The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies, is due out in the fall. Today the editors, who apparently scour the internet for any mention of the conference or collection, sent me a link to this article in The Daily Californian.

Interjection: California!

Estimated Time until Paris and I are shopping on Rodeo together: 6 months.

Estimated Time until The Real Professors of Monongalia County airs: 15 months

Estimated Time until I'm found passed out at the computer with only half a paragraph of a think piece on Mad Men that was due at Vanity Fair three months earlier: 2 and a half years

Review of English Studies Essay Award

2009 RES Essay Prize

The Review of English Studies is now inviting entries for its 2009 Essay Prize. The RES Essay Prize aims to encourage scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. The essay can be on any topic of English literature or the English language from medieval times to the twentieth century.

The prize

The winner will receive:

• Publication of the winning essay in the 2010 volume of The Review of English Studies
• A cash prize of £250
• £250 worth of OUP books
• A free year's subscription to The Review of English Studies

How to enter

Please click here to read through the entry guidelines and terms.

Entries should be submitted through our online submission system. Click here to access the system and submit your paper.

The competition rules

The competition is open to anyone studying for a higher degree, or who completed one no earlier than October 2006. The winner's student status verification will be requested from their academic supervisor or head of department. The entry must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Click here for full details of the competition rules.

Promote the prize

If you would like to advertise the RES prize amongst interested students and peers, why not download our pdf poster and display it on your department notice board? Click here to download the poster.

Past winners

Click here to read past winning articles FREE online.

Job Placement Meeting

This year's job placement meeting for graduate students will be held on Friday, September 18, at 4 p.m. in 106 Colson Hall.

John Ernest and Mary Ann Samyn will provide an overview of the application process and entertain attendees with stories of past MLA conventions.

For more info, email John (John.Ernest@mail.wvu.edu).