Raising Voices: The Legacy of Citizen John Thelwall
Funding is available for up to 4 graduate students (MA or PhD level) to join a team of scholars in the tightly-knit, dynamic and egalitarian Department of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, in a project to raise the voice of Romantic-era radical John Thelwall , and connect it to communities that still struggle to realize the democratic rights and liberties for which he fought.
Working-class champion, orator, journalist, political theorist, poet, playwright, speech therapist, scientific materialist, John Thelwall devoted his life to the “voice of the people.” A target of government “Gagging Acts,” Thelwall was almost forgotten after his death, his papers scattered and his biography left incomplete. Now, Dr. Judith Thompson, a leader in the rapidly growing field of Thelwall Studies, is beginning a project to overcome the fragmented state of Thelwall’s archive, and restore his legacy.
While Thompson writes the first complete biography of Thelwall, her graduate students will be trained in editorial and archival methods, both traditional and digital, in order to develop their own independent MA and PhD projects on previously unpublished or inaccessible Thelwall works, with an aim to publish them on the project website Citizen Juan: Words and Work (http://myweb.dal.ca/jthompso/Research/citjt.html) .
An innovative feature of this project is its activist, community outreach component. Following Thelwallian values, in which arts and acts are equally important, all participants will forge links between their editorial, biographical and critical work, and communities, local or virtual, academic or (especially) non-academic, which those works might mutually benefit.
One student will serve as the team technical coordinator who will help redesign and maintain the project website, and mentor students with their digital editorial projects. Preference will be given to a PhD applicant with experience in digital editing and web design, who wishes also to work on his or her own Thelwall project.
• For further information about “Raising Voices,” contact Judith Thompson at [log in to unmask]
• For further information about Dalhousie’s English graduate program, see http://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english/programs/graduate.html
• For information about postdoctoral funding available at Dalhousie, see www.dal.ca/faculty/gradstudies/postdoctoral/prospective.html and http://www.dal.ca/dept/killam-laureates/how-to-apply/postdoctoral-fellowships.html
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