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Subject: Research Fellowship
Hello all, please see below a job ad for a Research fellowship in the in the
Heritage and Material Culture of Shakespearean England. Best wishes Laura
This is a permanent position, subject to the normal probationary procedures.
The fellowship will last five years and the successful candidate will be
required to do some teaching in the last three years of the fellowship as
preparation for a long-term academic appointment.
Candidates should have a Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline and be engaged
in research into the heritage and material culture of sixteenth and early
seventeenth century England. Heritage and material culture are to be
understood in their broadest sense as encompassing research into the history
of a wide variety of artefacts and their uses, and also into the ways in
which the past has been, and is currently, interpreted and represented.
Appropriate research areas might include clothing culture and identity, the
use of building and domestic space, or the study of the material culture
associated with print and books, religion, or gentility.
Material culture is a major thematic priority of the Centre for Reformation
and Early Modern Studies at Birmingham which brings together early modern
historians, literary scholars, art historians, and all those researching the
philosophy, theology and ideas of the period, within the university and
beyond. CREMS hosted a successful colloquium in 2005 on 'Putting objects in
their places' which linked literary, art historical, archaeological and
museum studies, and set an agenda for future research. The successful
candidate will primarily be responsible for developing research activity in
this area, preparing bids for grants and developing postgraduate programmes.
More specifically, this will involve helping with the preparations for an
international conference on material culture scheduled for 2007 and planning
for an MA on the Heritage and Material Culture of Shakespeare's England .
The Fellow will be based initially in the Shakespeare Institute in
Stratford-upon-Avon and will work with Dr Richardson and the staff there,
and with John Carman (Heritage Research Fellow). There will be opportunities
to develop links with local bodies such as the National Trust and
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford, with a view to setting up
research projects based on resources like the Shakespeare Houses and the
Stratford-upon-Avon records. .
Further details are available from www.personnel.bham.ac.uk/researchfellows
Electronic applications are preferable and should be submitted to
[log in to unmask] by 30 June 2006, or University of Birmingham,
Personnel Services, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2 TT. Letters of application
should state the area(s) of research achievement and should be accompanied
by a full CV.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held in late July 2006.
For further information, please contact Dr Richard Cust, Head of the
Department of Modern History at The Department of Modern History, University
of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Email:
[log in to unmask] (telephone 0121 414 5764).
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