SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, SHEFFIELD, UK

One Year Research Fellowship
in English Literature

The Post

The post is a one year post-doctoral fellowship to be held within the 
English Subject-Group. The fellow will be engaged on the Corvey Project, 
funded by the British Academy.


The Corvey Project

Funded by the Humanities Research Board of the British Academy, the Corvey 
Project is one of the largest research projects of its kind in Britain. The 
core of the project is the University's copy of Edition Corvey, a 
collection of novels, poems, plays and literary miscellanies from Schloss 
Corvey in Germany, published on microfiche by Belser. The collection covers 
the period 1770-1850, with the bulk of the material falling in the period 
1800-1830, where the collection of novels represents something like 80% of 
the total published. The Corvey Project has a two-fold purpose: to map the 
writing by women as it is represented within Edition Corvey, and to make 
the results available to the international scholarly community using 
information technology. The grant was awarded to Professor Judy Simons and 
Dr. Noel Williams and runs until Feb., 2000. The Corvey Project team 
includes the two British Academy Fellows, Dr. Emma Clery and the new 
appointment; the current project director, Prof. Michael Worboys (who is 
also the head of the Cultural Research Institute); four literature 
specialists, Prof. Judy Simons, Prof. Robert Miles, Dr. Philip Cox and Dr. 
Lisa Hopkins; two Information Technology specialists,  Dr. Noel Williams 
and Dr. Glenn Dibert-Himes; and a visiting Professor, Dr. Stephen Behrendt 
from the University of Nebraska. There are currently three research 
students working on material directly relating to the Project, and six 
students completing their undergraduate dissertations on Corvey Project 
authors. Candidates may wish to visit the Project's web site at: 
http://www.shu.ac.uk/corvey

Job Description

The fellow will be expected to work closely with the Corvey Project team. 
The project is entering the final year of its four year lifespan. The 
fellow will be replacing Dr. Glenn Dibert-Himes, who has recently been 
appointed  to a Principle Lectureship in Information Technology in the 
Humanities, within the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam.

The Corvey Project has two main goals. The first is to provide a critical 
'map' of the women's writing found in Edition Corvey; the second is to 
utilize Information Technology to make the results available to the wider 
scholarly community. Dr. Dibert-Himes was responsible for delivering the 
project's Information Technology  goals, a responsibility he will maintain 
in his new post.

The Corvey Project team has decided that the best way of disseminating its 
findings is through a refereed web-site. An advisory board has been 
created. Board members include Anne Mellor, Clifford Siskin, Peter Garside, 
James Raven,  Janet Todd, Isobel Grundy, Edward Copeland, Stuart Curran, 
Stephen Behrendt, Jane Spencer and Isobel Armstrong.

The fellow will be responsible for:

*	Researching the women's writing within the collection.
*	Working with the Dr. Emma Clery in administering the refereed web-site.
*	Working with Dr. Glenn Dibert-Himes in maintaining the Corvey web-site 
and database. The candidate will participate in the onsite management of 
this system.

The successful applicant will have scholarly expertise in women's writing 
of the Romantic period and a close knowledge of the kind of material 
contained within Edition Corvey. Information Technology experience will be 
an advantage, as will publications in the field.

Further information and application forms are available from the Human 
Resources Department, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard 
Street, Sheffield S1 1WB (tel.: 0114 225 3950).  Please quote reference 
324/98.  Closing date: 5 February 1999.  It is planned to hold interviews 
on 17 February 1999.




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