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PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY with PLYMOUTH CITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Award 'Reading Plymouth's Cottonian Bequest: Manuscripts, Books and Practices of Collection 1740-1863' Funded doctoral studentship over 3 years Start date: 01 October 2013 The School of Humanities and Performing Arts in collaboration with Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery invites suitably qualified applicants for the above project. The doctoral award covers full time fees for 3 years and a bursary of £13,726 per year. Project description The Cottonian Research Initiative is led by Professor Dafydd Moore, and the supervisory team for this particular studentship will be drawn from a broad range of expertise in English and Creative Writing and Ms Emma Philip (Curator of Art, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery). This doctoral studentship is an exciting new development of our two institutions’ joint Cottonian Research Initiative, which is devoted to the scholarly and public understanding of Plymouth’s nationally designated Cottonian Collection and associated archive, a grouping of objets d’art, books, letters, ephemera, and other cultural materials assembled over several generations by private gentlemen who shaped and passed down the collection. Our aim is to generate new knowledge about the Collection, and about eighteenth and nineteenth-century cultures of collecting and connoisseurship more widely. As an almost totally unexplored National Designated Collection, the Cottonian is of international significance to scholarship, and its ‘recovery’ has the potential to reconnect the people of Plymouth with one of their greatest cultural treasures. This studentship will focus on reading and interpreting the written elements remains of the Cottonian, in particular its collection of books and archive of, amongst other things, letters, diaries, wills, and book manuscripts.. While the exact project will be a matter of negotiation within the project team, we would envisage that the project will provide an opportunity for those with an interest in the cultural values of collecting in the period 1740-1863; and in particular the figure of the gentlemanly collector; the dynamics of scholarly and literary networks; and the public, cultural and gender politics underlying such networks. Based within the Museum (which is co-located with the University), the successful applicant will get the opportunity to work with museum professionals and develop archival, curatorial and public engagement experience and expertise. Eligibility The successful candidate will hold a good undergraduate degree (2.1 or above) in English or other relevant discipline (History, Art History or Curatorial Studies). They will also hold a Masters qualification in a relevant subject. The award is subject to AHRC eligibility criteria, which includes residency criteria. Full details of the criteria can be found here. For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Annika Bautz or Dr Bonnie Latimer ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]). For full details please see: http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/humpa/Study/Pages/Studentships.aspx The closing date for applications is 12 NOON on Monday 1st July 2013. ********************************************************* British Association for Romantic Studies http://www.bars.ac.uk<http://www.bars.ac.uk/> To advertise Romantic literature conferences, publications, jobs, or other events that the BARS members would be interested in, please contact Neil Ramsey <[log in to unmask]> Also use this address to register any change in your e-mail address, or to be removed from the list. Messages are held in archives, along with other information about the Mailbase at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html *********************************************************