The Centre for Textual Studies at the English Department, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, <http://cts.dmu.ac.uk> is inviting applications for PhD studentships from students whose research interests include:
· textual criticism
· book history
· manuscript studies
· the editing of literary and/or historical texts
· genetic criticism
· the sociology of authorship and/or publication and/or reading
· enumerative, analytical (descriptive/physical and/or historical) and/or textual bibliography
· computational stylistics
· print technologies
· digital publication
Students with an interest in Romanticism and the eighteenth-century are welcome to apply. De Montfort faculty in this area includes Prof Tim Fulford and Dr Philip Cox.
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/tim-fulford/tim-fulford.aspx
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/philip-cox/philip-cox.aspx
Fulford’s current projects include editing the Collected Letters of Robert Southey and of Humphry Davy.
www.davy-letters.org.uk
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters/
The studentships are part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded scheme, the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, which will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the arts and humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between De Montfort University and the universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, Birmingham and Birmingham City, provides research candidates with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate, subject-specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.
The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 9 January 2014, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact [log in to unmask] .
For informal enquiries concerning areas of interest, email [log in to unmask]
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