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** ** Please bring this opportunity to the attention of your distinguished colleagues who study Shakespeare.**** * * * * I am writing to alert you to a new U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant opportunity to the United Kingdom for academic year 2014/15 that might be of interest to you or your colleagues:**** **** *FULBRIGHT –GLOBAL SHAKESPEARE CENTER DISTINGUISHED CHAIR*<http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=4356&dc=UK> **** Hosted jointly by the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London, the Global Shakespeare Center Distinguished Chair will contribute to the intellectual life of the two host universities by conducting research, teaching graduate-level seminars, delivering public lectures and consulting on curriculum development. The newly created Center is intended to shape future research agenda in Shakespeare studies, focusing particularly on ways in which different global perspectives may impact on the field of Shakespeare studies, and on the contribution to this field of performance-based work on Shakespeare. The Distinguished Chair will spend one semester in residence at the University of Warwick and one semester at Queen Mary, University of London, respectively, for a total of eight months. The Global Shakespeare Center has close links with both the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare’s Globe in London. There will be opportunities to draw on these linkages to establish lasting connections and ties with both institutions.**** Qualified applicants in Shakespeare studies, theater studies, drama, performance studies, translation studies, any area of English literature, history or cultural studies that would fit within the broad remit of the newly established Global Shakespeare Center are encouraged to apply. ** ** **** The largest Fulbright Scholar Program in Europe, the UK now offers 35 Core grants for U.S. faculty and professionals to conduct research, teaching or a combination of the two in a variety of fields. This includes: two grants open in all disciplines at any viable UK institution; two grants under Police Research or Criminal Justice Scholar award; two grants under Northern Ireland Governance and Public Policy award; three Distinguished Chair grants; four Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorships. In addition, unique to the program are 20 university-partnership awards at designated host universities.**** *Applicants must be U.S. citizens* and hold a Ph.D. or appropriate professional/terminal degree at the time of application. *The application deadline is August 1, 2013. ***** For eligibility factors, detailed application guidelines and review criteria, please follow the link *http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/ *. You may also wish to register for one of our webinars at http://www.cies.org/Webinar/ (including one on the UK), or to join our online community, My Fulbright <http://www.cies2.org/s/1064/index.aspx>, a resource center for applicants interested in the program.**** I would greatly appreciate if you could share this opportunity with members of your listservs, newsletters or social media group. For further information, please contact Krisztina Miner, Program Officer, at [log in to unmask]**** Best wishes,**** **** *Krisztina Miner, Ph.D.***** *Program Officer, Europe and Eurasia***** *Fulbright Scholar Program***** Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)**** Institute of International Education (IIE) **** 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 700**** Washington, DC 20005**** Ph: 202-686-8645 | Fax: 202-686-4029**** [log in to unmask] | www.iie.org/cies**** **** The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is administered by CIES, a division of IIE.**** Twitter <https://twitter.com/FulbrightSchlrs> | Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/fulbright> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3709849>| Google+ <https://plus.google.com/111585226276527305578/posts>| Vimeo<https://vimeo.com/fulbright> | Blog <http://fulbrightscholarblog.cies.org/> | My Fulbright<http://www.cies2.org/> **** **** *Opening Minds to the World®* <http://www.iie.org/Our-Global-Reach>* ***** Addis Ababa | Bangkok | Beijing | Budapest | Cairo | Chicago | Denver | Hanoi | Hong Kong | Houston | Jakarta | Kyiv |Mexico City | Moscow | New Delhi | New York | San Francisco | Washington**** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** -- David Lee Miller University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-4256 FAX 777-9064 [log in to unmask] Center for Digital Humanities <http://www.cdh.sc.edu/> Faculty Web Page <http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/miller.html> *Dreams of the Burning Child<http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100865590&CFID=8776879&CFTOKEN=5f96265f3e78e4c1-CD8CDD45-C29B-B0E5-3A132DAF587030F4&jsessionid=8430cfc86f9c780302f52b2158647f227d5dTR> * *A Touch More Rare<http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823230303> *