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Subject: [BASEES-MEMBERS] PhD studentships, University of Sheffield for 2014
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission to
PhD study in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, to begin during
the 2014-2015 academic year.
We offer research expertise and supervision in the following broad areas:
critical theory and the history of ideas (Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko, Prof.
Craig Brandist)
Russian and Soviet literary and film studies (Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko,
Prof. Craig Brandist)
history of art, visual culture and the aesthetics of everyday life in
twentieth century Russia and the Soviet Union (Prof. Susan E. Reid)
the linguistics of Slavonic languages, especially corpus linguistics,
cognitive linguistics, studies of variation, and language policy, with
respect to Russian, Czech, Polish and Serbian (Prof. Neil Bermel, Dr Dagmar
Divjak)
In addition, we offer the possibility of co-supervision with staff in the
other Departments of the School (French, Hispanic Studies, Germanic Studies)
via our School Research Clusters
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/slc/research/clusters:
Linguistics
Visual Culture, Film and Performance
Gender Studies
Intellectual History and Politics
Migration, Culture and Communities
Literary Studies
Applications for the following scholarship opportunities must be submitted
by 3 February 2014:
1) Following the announcement that the White Rose College of the Arts &
Humanities (WRoCAH) has received £19m from the AHRC to establish a Doctoral
Training Partnership that will create over 300 PhD studentships and join the
expertise of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, we are pleased
to announce a range of AHRC-funded PhD opportunities. Further details can be
found on the White Rose College website:
http://www.arts-and-humanities.whiterose.ac.uk/
2) Applications for the University Prize scholarships, the Harry Worthington
scholarships, the Wolfson scholarships and Faculty scholarships are also
open and further details about all of them can be found here:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/uk
Before submitting a funding application, scholarship applicants must have
been accepted by the Department for a place on our programme. We strongly
encourage applicants to discuss their research proposal with one of the
research supervisors in the Department (listed above) in advance of
submitting the application.
Further information about postgraduate study can be found here:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/russian/postgraduate
Please direct enquiries to the Graduate Tutor: Professor Susan E. Reid:
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3) Caucasus Scholarship: In addition to the above scholarships, the
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies also invites applications to the
Caucasus scholarship for doctoral research in one of the following areas:
a) The study of Caucasian folklore in the Marr circle;
b) The use and re-use of folklore in 20th-century Georgian literature.
For further detail concerning the Caucasus Scholarship, or to discuss your
proposal please contact Professor Craig Brandist:
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