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			Warwick Italian Postgraduate Bursary

Applications are invited for a Postgraduate Bursary in the Department of 
Italian with effect from 1 October 2006. The award is open to students with 
an excellent knowledge of English and Italian who wish to study for a 
doctoral degree in Italian Studies while at the same time undertaking up to 
6 hours undergraduate teaching or related activities a week during term 
time. The bursary will be tenable for three years, subject to satisfactory 
progress. The bursary offers:

•	 The payment of your academic fees at the Home/EU rate (currently £3168)
•	 A maintenance grant of £ 11.000 per annum
•	 The opportunity to gain valuable work experience with the Department

You are expected to obtain or have obtained at least an upper second class 
honours degree (or equivalent) in Italian Studies or in a joint degree that 
includes Italian and an MA in Italian Studies or related field (or 
equivalent).  Candidates will be expected to show evidence of their ability 
to carry out independent research. In addition the proposed area of research 
must be in a field in which the Department has the necessary expertise to 
supervise you (see below).

Those considering applying are welcome to contact Dr Loredana Polezzi, Chair 
of Italian, Department of Italian (email: [log in to unmask]  tel:  +44 
(0) 24 7652 4126) or Dr Simon Gilson (email: [log in to unmask] tel:  
+44 (0) 24 7652 4126) for an informal discussion.

Applications should include a full curriculum vitae and a statement of the 
proposed area of research of no more than 700 words; applications should be 
sent directly to Mrs Josie Williams, Department of Italian, University of 
Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL (email: [log in to unmask]). You should 
also contact two referees to arrange for them to send references directly to 
Mrs Josie Williams at the above address.

Closing date for applications is 1st June 2006.
We shall, where possible, seek to interview suitable applicants in late 
June, early July.

The teaching staff of the Department of Italian comprises 1 Professor, 1 
Reader, 2 Senior Lecturers, 1 Lecturer and 2 Postgraduate Tutors (2 Language 
Tutors). We admit about 35 undergraduates a year who take Italian either as 
Single Honours or in combination with one of the following: European 
Literature, French, German, English, Film Studies, Theatre Studies, 
International Studies, and Classics. At graduate level members of the 
Department are currently involved in the supervision of 6 PhD students. With 
Birmingham University we run a joint Birmingham-Warwick taught MA in Italian 
Studies:  Culture and Communication and a highly successful cycle of talks 
and symposia. Most recently members of the Department organised an 
international conference 'Borderlines' on migration and writing, on Italy 
and the Classical Tradition, and on Nonsense literature.

Research interest within the Department extend from Dante to Italophone 
writing with particular strengths concentrated in the Middle Ages and the 
Renaissance and in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Research interests of 
individual members of staff are listed below:

Jenny Burns (MA, MSt, DPhil) Post-war narrative fiction, political and 
ethical issues in literature, immigrant writing, cinema.

Carlo Caruso	(Dott.Lett., DPhil, Dott di ricerca) Latin and vernacular in 
the Renaissance, Renaissance and Baroque literature, classicism in Italian 
literature.

Simon Gilson (BA, PhD) Dante, relations between literature and science, 15th 
and 16th century Florentine culture, Renaissance reception of Dante.

Ann Hallamore Caesar (MA, PhD) the rise of the modern novel, 19th and 20th 
century narrative, Pirandello, literary modernism, women writers and 
readers.

Loredana Polezzi  (Dott.Ling Lett., MA, PhD)  history of travel writing, 
translation studies, Italian as a foreign language.

The Department was awarded a 5 in the 2001 RAE.

The Faculty of Arts of which the Department of Italian is a member has a 
large postgraduate community which includes about 180 PhD students.  The 
successful candidate will find that although his or her home is in the 
Department, there are many opportunities to meet with other staff and 
students through a range of activities including workshops, day schools, 
reading groups and conferences supported both by subject departments and the 
interdisciplinary research centres which exist both within the Faculty, such 
as the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, or the Centre for 
Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies and outside, such as the Centre 
for Research in Philosophy and Literature. The University Library which 
holds over 90.000 volumes and about 5.500 periodical and statistical series 
supports our postgraduate students through our specialist subject librarian. 
One of the University's greatest assets is the Arts Centre, the largest 
outside London, with a cinema, two theatres, art gallery and concert hall, 
restaurant and bookshop.

Further information about the Department of Italian, and the research 
interests of staff, can be found on 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/Italian

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