Associate Professor in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

Job title:

Affiliate Professor in Literature of the Lengthy Eighteenth Century

Firm

Durham College

Job description

The Division of English Research seeks to nominate an Affiliate Professor in Literature of the Lengthy Eighteenth Century, with analysis specialisms within the broad area of English literary research from 1660 to 1789. We’re significantly keen to listen to from candidates who command vary throughout the interval in instructing and analysis, and who’ve curiosity in contributing to interdisciplinary initiatives within the ‘Transformative Humanities’ at Durham, together with digital, environmental and medical humanities and cultural heritage.

The Division researches and teaches English literary research from the early medieval interval to the current day, in addition to Anglophone literature from throughout the globe. The profitable candidate will play a major function in sustaining its fame as a world-class division for conducting world-leading analysis. Our complete full protection of the topic is a defining characteristic of our tutorial profile and our worldwide fame. English Research is a big division, consisting of over 50 FTE tutorial workers and round 700 undergraduates, 50 taught postgraduates and 50 PhD college students. It’s dedicated to range and inclusion and proudly holds an Athena Swan Bronze award.

The candidate might be becoming a member of a Division with strengths in lots of facets of the Lengthy Eighteenth Century, together with: poetry and poetics; textual enhancing and the historical past of the e book; classical, biblical, cross-European and Atlantic legacies; drama, music and folklore; slave narrative; the historical past of science and the senses. Colleagues are actively concerned within the work of College Institutes and Centres, together with the Institute of Superior Examine (IAS), the Institute of Medieval and Early Trendy Research (IMEMS) and Durham World Heritage Website, the Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH), the Centre for Catholic Research (CCS), the Centre for Visible Arts and Tradition (CVAC), the Centre for Loss of life and Life Research, and the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. In depth uncommon e book, manuscript and object collections can be found at Durham Cathedral, Cosin’s Library, Palace Inexperienced, the Oriental Museum, and Ushaw School, an excellent architectural ensemble designed by Pugin with not but ful ly catalogued materials from medieval instances to the nineteenth century. Quite a lot of websites within the area (Raby Fort, the Bowes Museum at Barnard Fort, John Vanbrugh’s Seaton Delaval Corridor, amongst others) invite collaborations on the general public engagement of educational analysis. At Richmond (North Yorkshire), the Georgian Theatre Royal is the oldest surviving playhouse within the UK, providing alternatives for archival analysis and efficiency workshops with college students of all ranges. Lastly, the North East Discussion board in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research brings collectively workers and college students from the Universities of Durham, Newcastle and Northumbria, fostering analysis into literature, historical past and tradition within the Lengthy Eighteenth Century ( ).

This put up provides an thrilling alternative to make a significant contribution to the event of internationally glorious analysis and instructing whereas permitting you unrivalled alternatives to progress and embed your profession in an thrilling and progressive establishment. For extra info, please go to our Division pages at .

£57,696 to £64,914. Grade 9, each year

Anticipated wage

£57696 – 64914 per 12 months

Location

Durham

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 06:01:59 GMT

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