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Upcoming Postgraduate Events
Queer Sisterhood in Contemporary Women's Writing Symposium
Wednesday 29th February
2012 Guest speaker: Dr. Tina O'Toole
Full information available at http://pgcwwn.org
Women and Media Conference: Representations Past and Present
A two-day conference to celebrate International Women's Day
Friday 9th - Saturday 10th March 2012
Full information available at: http://womenandmedia2012.wordpress.com
Email: womenandmedia2012@gmail.com
New Voices in Irish Criticism: Legitimate Ireland Conference
A three-day postgraduate conference in Irish Studies
Thursday 19th-Saturday 21st April 2012
Full information available at: http://newvoicesqub.wordpress.com
Email: newvoices2012@qub.ac.uk
A Symposium in Honour of Siobhán Kilfeather
A symposium in honour of our former colleague Dr Siobhán Kilfeather will be held this summer (29-30 June). Speakers include Professor Clair Wills (Queen Mary, University of London); Dr Michael Cronin (NUI Maynooth); Prof. Paul Muldoon (Princeton) and Prof. Katie Trumpener (Yale). For more information, visit our conferences page.
"Armagh novelist celebrates highs and lows of first book"
The BBC profiles Darran McCann, who graduated from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in 2010 with a PhD, on the publication of his first novel, After the Lockout. Congratulations to Darran.
Themed PhD studentship awards, commencing September 2012
The School of English, Queens University Belfast, is pleased to announce 4 PhD studentship awards, for designated topics, commencing in September 2012.
In summary form, these studentships are as follows:
- 1.) An AHRC doctoral studentship in ‘An Historical Typology of Irish Song, from early beginnings to 1800’
Supervisor: Prof Ed Larrissy
Eligibility: UK residents (full award) / EU residents (fees-only award) - 2.) A DEL doctoral studentship in ‘An interdisciplinary study of song, poetry and opera in the early eighteenth century’
Supervisors: Dr Moyra Haslett and Dr Sarah McCleave
Eligibility: UK residents - 3.) A DEL Creative Writing doctoral studentship in ‘Contemporary Fiction and Historical Fact’
Supervisors: Dr Ian Sansom and Prof Keith Jeffrey
Eligibility: UK residents - 4.) An International doctoral studentship in ‘Shakespeare and the Soundtrack’
Supervisors: Prof Mark Burnett and Dr Ramona Wray
Eligibility: International students
Download the further particulars for more information: Themed PhD Studentships
We are currently completing updates to the new School website and ask that visitors who cannot find information they expect to see contact us at: english@qub.ac.uk.
We expect to complete the transition to the new site by the end of January.
January 23rd, 2012:
Congratulations to Rebecka Gronstedt on successfully defending her PhD thesis, 'The rise of the female critic, 1673-1754'.
On February 2-4 2012, the School will host the Fifth Joyce Postgraduate Conference, entitled 'Polytropic(al) Joyce: North, South, and Beyond'. The programme is now available:
Polytropical Joyce - Final programme
Open-Days
The School of English will host two postgraduate open days on February 3rd and February 10th, 2012. The February 3rd event will introduce prospective students to the School's MA programmes and they will be able to meet staff and talk to students currently enrolled on the School's MAs. The February 10th event will be directed at students considering doctoral research. At both meetings, staff will explain application procedures and opportunities for funding.
Postgraduate Funding 2012-13
The School has a number of awards to offer students applying for postgraduate studies in 2012-13. The awards are highly competitive and must be applied for by March 2nd, 2012.
Guidelines for Creative Writing Applicants
Please note that applicants to the MA in Creative Writing for entry in 2012-13 must comply with the following MA Creative Writing - Guidelines 2012-13
Congratulations to Megan Minogue who is this year's recipient of the Margaret Frazer Bursary, awarded annually to a PGR student studying some aspects of Northern Irish writing.
Congratulations to the following PhD students who have successfully defended their theses at recent viva examinations:
Richard Barlow, 'Scotographic Joys: Joyce and Scottish Literature, History and Philosophy'.
Amy Kieran, 'Modalities of Reform in late Medieval England'
Clara Neary, 'Gandhi’s ‘Style’: Autobiography, Language and Identity in The Story of My Experiments with Truth'
The Postgraduate Research Students Handbook is now available to download here:
Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce its 1st Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (ILinC), a student-led initiative co-organized by the Schools of Education, English, and Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts. This two-day conference is designed to offer participants a stimulating and friendly forum in which they may present and discuss their research findings. Additionally, the event aims at bringing together researchers from different academic divisions carrying out language studies in order to foster cross-disciplinary contact......>>>>read more >>>>Registration is now open
The MA Handbook 2011-12, for all incoming MA students commencing their degrees in September 2011, is now available to download:
MA Handbook 2011-12
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The School of English and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry have secured their second round of UK/US Fulbright Commission Distinguished Scholar Awards. Three awards have been offered and accepted, building upon the two inaugural awards made last year. Last year’s winners, Don Bogen of the University of Cincinnati and Rebecca Black of the University of North Carolina, have been in post at Queen’s since January; but the School of English has been permitted to release the names and profiles of next year’s cohort of visiting Fulbrighters. read more>>>>
The School of English would like to congratulate the following PhD students on their recent viva successes:
- Kathrin Preitzel whose thesis title was 'Anglo-Saxon Authorities: Constructions of Kingship and Concepts of Power'
- Paul Frazer whose thesis title was 'The Geography of Vagrancy in Early Modern Language and Culture'
- Clare Gill whose thesis title was 'Olive Schreiner and the Literary Marketplace, 1883-1914'
The School of English would like to congratulate;
Congratulations to Sheila Llewellyn (MA in Creative Writing), who has won joint First Prize in the RTE P J O'Connor Radio Drama Awards for 2011 with her play @The House on Shareni Street'. The play is set against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 and Sheila has been developing it since starting the MA in Creative Writing at the Centre last year. The play will be produced and broadcast sometime in July in the RTE Radio One Drama slot on Sunday evenings. For more information go to http://www.rte.ie/radio1/pjoconnorawards/
Peter Ferry has been awarded £2500.00 from the Helen Ramsey Turtle Fund to research aspects of his Ph.D on 'Masculinities in Manhattan' at SUNY Stonybrook and Columbia.
Yi-peng Lai has been awarded at €4000.00 grant from the Zurich Joyce Foundation and £1000.00 from the William and Betty McQuitty Fund to fund doctoral study at the Joyce Research Centre in Zurich. She has also been awarded a major Taiwanese State Educational Grant to complete her doctoral studies in the School of English, QUB.
Congratulations to Clare Gill, who has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment at the Harry Ransom Center, Texas, to continue aspects of her doctoral study on Oliver Schreiner.
Congratulations to Paul Maddern, whose first collection, The Beachcomber’s Report (Templar Poetry, 2010), has been shortlisted for the 2011 Rupert and Eithne Strong Award, which recognises first collections published in English or Irish by Irish poets in the previous year.
The School of English would like to congratulate the following research students for successfully completing their Ph.Ds:
Peter Eakin on successfully passing his Ph.D. Peter's thesis was on the topic, ‘The Kingdom of Man? Models of Nature and Society in the Fiction of HG Wells’.
Clare Clarke, ‘Shadows of Sherlock: British Crime Fiction, 1886-1900’
Anna Dillon, 'Toward a Supreme Poetry: The Ecstatic Self in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath'
David Falls, ‘Love’s Mirror before Arundel: Audiences and Early Readers of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ’.
Lisa Keogh, 'Ahab’s Daughter: Towards a Unified Approach to Dialogue'
Tammy Moore, A novel, 'Carny Queen', and a critical dissertation on 'The Development of the Outsider in Detective Fiction'.
Elizabeth Scarborough, 'Continental Drift: the reception of European Visionary Writing in Medieval England'
Kath Stevenson, '"Of the holy londe of Irlande": A reconsideration of some Middle English texts in late medieval Ireland.'
Congratulations too to Clare Gill, who is the 2011-12 recipient of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment at the Harry Ransom Center, Texas. Clare will pursue postdoctoral study there on Olive Schreiner.
English Language and Literature has performed outstandingly well in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, the preliminary results of which were published on 18 December 2008. These results show overall quality profiles per unit of assessment (UOA), to be followed in January 2009 by a subject overview report for each UoA, and in spring 2009 by the sub-profiles themselves.
For more information please click here
Congratulations to Naomi Frisby, a 2010 graduate of Creative Writing in the School, and Neil Vallelly, currently completing the MA in English (Reconceiving the Renaissance).
Naomi Frisby, a graduate of Creative Writing MA program in 2010 has won the Coffee and Roses short story competition: "It is my great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2011 New Rose Short Story Prize is: NAOMI FRISBY with her story Because I Was Too Much. This story was a unanimous choices of the judges because of its fantastic sense of place, great tension, pace and excellent composition. Of all the entries submitted, Because I Was Too Much remained in our minds the longest after we had read it - the proof of a truly special story. Massive congratulations to Naomi, who wins a place on one of Ruth Saberton's writing weekends in beautiful Polperro, signed goodies and the title of New Rose Short Story Prize 2011 Winner!"
Neil Vallelly has been awarded a four-year Commonwealth Scholarship to study for a PhD in Renaissance Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He will be commencing his studies in January next year. Congratulations, Neil and Naomi.
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