News and Events
Claiming a Place - International Women's Day 2013
In association with the Queens Gender Initiative, Moyra Haslett (School of English) will give an illustrated talk - 'Claiming a place: group portraits of women, 1779-2003' - on Wednesday 6th March, 12.30-1.30 in the Council Chamber, QUB.
New Crops, Old Fields: (Re)Imagining Irish Folklore
5th - 7th September 2013 Queen's University Belfast
This conference aims at exploring the rich traditions of Irish folklore, and looking at the various ways it is being, has been or indeed was, re-purposed and reinvented. We hope to bring together researchers at various stages of their careers, both professional and postgraduate, working on any and every aspect of the folklore of Ireland, its reappropriation and dissemination up to the present day or indeed the reuse of traditions.
Confirmed keynote speaker:
Prof. Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre-Dame).
Please submit proposals of 300 words and a short biography to newcrops@qub.ac.uk by 1st May 2013.
Visit the conference website for more information.
McGahern Conference - Registration
Registration is now open for A Way of Seeing: 50 Years of John McGahern in Print to be hosted at the School on March 15th and 16th. Please visit the conference page or register directly here.
QUB Medieval
The second issue of the QUB Medieval Newsletter is now available to download. The newsletter represents staff and student activities across the Schools of English, History, and Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology. Congratulations and thanks to editors, Natalie Calder, Aisling Reid and Craig Wallace.
Medieval QUB Newsletter Sem 1 2013
Medieval Studies at Queen's is also on Twitter, with nearly 1100 followers! See: twitter.com/medievalqub
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference 2013
The School of English is delighted to host the
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference
Themed PhD studentship awards, commencing September 2013
The School of English, Queen’s University Belfast, is pleased to announce THREE PhD studentship awards, for designated topics, commencing in September 2013.
Further details of these awards follow below. In summary form, these studentships are as follows:
1.) A DEL doctoral studentship in ‘Geography and National Identity in Anglo-Saxon England’
Supervisors: Dr Marilina Cesario and Dr Keith Lilley
Eligibility: UK residents
2.) A DEL Creative Writing doctoral studentship in ‘Radical Crime Fiction’
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Pepper and Dr Dominique Jeannerod
Eligibility: UK residents
3.) An international doctoral studentship in ‘Anglo-Dutch-Spanish Politics in Early Modern Literary Culture’
Supervisors: Dr Adrian Streete and Prof Isabel Torres
Eligibility: EU and International students
Further information on the projects: Themed PhD projects, 2013
Applications for these awards must be submitted through the Queen’s online application system (on the prospective students’ portal) before the closing date of FRIDAY 22nd February, 2013. Applications are similar to those invited for ‘open’ PhD studentships, but applicants are not required to upload a description of the intended thesis.
Applicants for these ‘themed’ awards should indicate the title of the award to which they are applying in the application form and should supply, instead of the thesis description, a personal statement (maximum 1500 words) outlining the distinctive contribution they could make to the research for the thesis.
Informal enquiries are very welcome and should be directed to the relevant supervisors named here or to the School’s Director of PG Education: Dr Adrian Streete (a.streete@qub.ac.uk).
Congratulations to Kelly McCaughrain
Kelly, a part-time Stage Two student in the School who is on the Creative Writing pathway, has had her novel for teenagers shortlisted in the Times Chicken House Children's Fiction Award. The School wishes Kelly the best of luck for the award!
Congratulations to Sheila Llewellyn
Congratulations to Sheila Llewellyn, a PhD student in the School of English, who is a finalist in this year's Costa Short Story Award. From the Costa press release:
SHEILA LLEWELLYN Dislocation
A painting in an Irish art gallery triggers off painful memories for one of the art gallery attendants originally from East Germany.
Sheila had two careers before turning to creative writing - firstly working for the British Council in Iran, Africa and Singapore, before retraining as a psychologist specialising in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She now lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Queen's University, Seamus Heaney Centre. In 2011, her radio play The House on Shareni Street won the PJ O' Connor Radio Drama Award and in 2012, Sheila was shortlisted for the Seán Ó 'Faoláin International Short Story Prize and for the Bridport Prize. She is currently studying for a PhD and writing a historical novel.
Postgraduate Open Days 2013
The School will be hosting Open Days for prospective MA and PhD applicants in January. The PhD Open Day will take place on Monday 21th January, 2013, 11.00-1.30 in the Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Building and School of English. The Open Day for prospective MA applicants will be held the following Monday, January 28th, 11.00-1.30 in the Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Building and School of English.
Visit the School's page for prospective postgraduate applicants for further details.2013 Schools Programme
The schedule for this year's School Programme, lectures for students and teachers of the A-level English curriculum, is now online. The lectures are free, although a refundable deposit is required in order to book attendance. The programme is available here. In order to book attendance, please email Sandra McMillan. For further information on the programme, contact the Schools Liaison Officer, Dr Malte Urban.
Applying for PhD study commencing 2013
Information has just been posted on the School's Postgraduate Studies pages on the application process for prospective students intending to undertake doctoral research at the School of English. Applicants should contact Dr Ramona Wray or Dr Adrian Streete in the first instance. There is a small number of awards available for doctoral study and application must be made by February 22nd in order to be considered for funding.
Recent Doctoral Successes
Congratulations to the following students who successfully passed their viva voce examinations in recent weeks:
- Mary Ellen Donaghy - Gender, Nation and the Sacred in the Writings of Eva Gore-Booth
- Peter Ferry - Masculinity in Manhattan: Reading Hegemonic Masculinity in Selected Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Jed Reubenfield
- Laura Gallagher - The Virgin Mary in the Early Modern Literary Imagination
- Claire Heaney – Ethics and Imagination in J M Coetzee
- Milena Mendes – Humourous texts in coursebooks: an Investigation of Pedagogical Tasks and Readers Reactions
- Jane Lugea – Building a Narrative Text-World Through Deixis and Modality: A Contrastive Study of Spanish and English
- Elizabeth Switaj – “The fame of an English Teacher”: James Joyce, Language and Pedagogy
- Vander Viana – Disciplinary variation in academic writing: A corpus study of PhD theses in English Language and Literature
Conference: A Way of Seeing - Fifty Years of John McGahern in Print
Deadline for submissions extended until Friday 11 January 2013.
2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of McGahern’s first novel, The Barracks, for which he was awarded the Æ Memorial Medal and Macaulay Fellowship. It announced the emergence of a unique literary vision, his ‘way of seeing’ the world. With the publication and subsequent censorship of The Dark two years later, McGahern became a cause célèbre. Like so many Irish writers, he embarked on a period of self-imposed exile; however, he returned to his native soil in the 1970s as a writer and farmer.
The School of English will host a conference on McGahern on 15-16 March 2013. Please visit our conference page for more details.
Postgraduate Funding 2013-14
Applications are invited for any of the School's MA programmes and for PhD study in all aspects of English Studies.
Please note that the university has imposed a new application deadline of February 22nd, 2012.
MA Studentships in English
The School of English invites applications for the following MA awards:
- TEN home/ EU fee scholarships for MA study (fee-only award)
- Up to ONE AHRC MA award (fees and maintenance)
PhD studentships in English 2013-14
The School fo English invites applications for the following PhD awards:
- Up to TWO AHRC PhD awards (fees and maintenance for three years)
- ONE DEL PhD award (fees and maintenance for three years)
Deadline for Applications for Funding: February 22nd, 2013
(Deadline for self-funded places: June 3rd, 2013).
See the School's Prospective Students pages for more information.
Commemorative reading for Michael Allen and launch of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
On Thursday 6th December, Crescent Arts Centre, at 8pm the School hosts a reading to commemorate the late Dr Michael Allen, by poets Michael Longley, Ciaran Carson, Frank Ormsby, Medbh McGuckian and Alan Gillis. The readining will be followed by a reception in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at 9pm to mark the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, ed. Fran Brearton & Alan Gillis.
Louis MacNeice Memorial Lecture 2012
The BBC Louis MacNeice Memorial Lecture 2012 will be given by Sir Peter Stothard in The Great Hall, Queen's University, Belfast at 6pm on Wednesday 28 November, 2012. His title is 'Louis MacNeice and the Man Booker Judge.
Sir Peter Stothard is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement and will be talking about the influence of Louis MacNeice's writing and poetry on his own career as a journalist, author and newspaper editor. His lecture will also include reflections on the importance of the Classics and the state of contemporary fiction, drawing on his recent experiences as Chair of the Man Booker Prize 2012.
This annual lecture is an established and popular feature of the BBC's cultural calendar in Northern Ireland. It celebrates the contribution which Louis MacNeice made to broadcasting and the arts and is a joint initiative with Queen's University.
The School of English Newsletter
The November issue of the School of English Newsletter is now available and can be downloaded here: School of English Newsletter - Nov 2012
Shakespeare, Performance, Place
2-3 November 2012 Queen’s University, Belfast
Registration has now closed.
This two-day conference investigates Shakespearean performance and its relationship to place, location and geography. The themes are chosen to coincide with the first Shakespearean production to be staged at Belfast’s new Lyric Theatre and performance is defined broadly to encompass theatrical event, film, television and mass media. Plenary speakers include Dr Patrick Lonergan (Galway), Dr Lucy Munro (Keele), Prof. Stuart Hampton-Reeves (University of Central Lancashire) and Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB). The conference is a collaboration between the School of English, Queen’s University, the British Shakespeare Association and the Irish Renaissance Seminar. The conference fee is £30, which includes a tour of the new Lyric Theatre, a ticket to see Macbeth (directed by Lynne Parker), a new Shakespeare film showing, coffee, lunches and reception.
If you are interested in offering a paper or just attending the conference please contact Dr Ramona Wray before 28 September 2012. A number of postgraduate bursaries have been generously provided by the BSA – again please contact Dr Ramona Wray for details.
UPDATE: Registration has now closed.
The Annual Belfast Book Fair
The annual Belfast Book Fair takes place on Saturday 13th October, in the Wellington Park Hotel, Malone Road. 10.00am to 5.00pm.
There will be thousands of Antiquarian, Secondhand & Out-of-Print books on offer on a wide variety of subjects. Further details of some of the highlights can be found by visiting the website - http://www.belfastbookfair.com/
Peer Mentors' Halloween SPOOKtacular
The Peer Mentors are hosting a Halloween party on October 29th, from 7.00pm in the Social Space.
Autumn Events at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
The programme for Autumn at the Heaney Centre is available here. All events are free and unticketed unless otherwise stated.
Presented in collaboration with the Crescent Arts Centre.
Macmillian Coffee Morning at the School of English
This Friday, 28th September, Macmillan Cancer Support is having their 'World's largest Coffee Morning' in aid of sufferers of cancer and their families all over the UK. Last year, coffee mornings raised over £10,000,000 for this worthy cause.
Staff and students are encouraged to support Macmillan coming along to the Coffee Morning in the Social Space in the School of English from 9.30 to 10.45 on Friday. You can help by making a donation, baking some cakes or just coming along to support! If you cannot make it to the event, you can text CUP 112J to 70550 to donate £5 from your phone to this event.
Congratulations to Erin Halliday
Many congratulations to Erin Halliday (PhD: Creative Writing), who has won a 'Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Award' for 2012, the prize for which is the publication of her first short collection, 'Chrysalis'. This will be launched at the Derwent Poetry Festival 16-18 November 2012.
Welcome to New and Returning Students
The School welcomes new undergraduate students to their first semester at university and returning students at all levels. Lectures and tutorials for most modules commence this week. The introductory lectures for Stage Two and Stage Three take place on Monday September 24th, in PFC G/07, at 3.00pm for Stage Three and 4.00pm for Stage Two. There will be visits from staff in the library, the Learning Development Centre and the Careers Service.
Stage One Handbook 2012-13
The Stage One Handbook for students commencing their degree in English in September can now be downloaded as a PDF file here. Students will receive printed copies at the Induction lectures during Welcome Week.
The University's Open Days take place on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th of September. Staff and students from the School of English look forward to meeting prospective students and their parents at the English desk in the Open Day marquee.
The School will also host two talks on each day, at 11.00am and 12 noon, in the Emeleus Lecture Theatre where staff will describe the distinctiveness of the English programme at Queen's; discuss the content of programmes in English Literature and Language and Creative Writing; describe the value of an English degree for future careers; and answer questions students and parents might have about English at Queen's.
For further information, see the University's Open Days portal here.
ILinC 2012 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference - Exploring contexts: language at crossroads of society and culture
Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce its Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference 2012 (ILinC 2012), a student-led venture co-organised by the Schools of Education, English, and Modern Languages. Given the success of the last ILinC, this two-day conference will give researchers studying language in all academic disciplines the opportunity to exchange information about their research practice in the presence of distinguished and esteemed academics in the field of linguistics.
Conference details | conference website | Facebook | Twitter
MA Handbook and Reading Lists for Incoming MA students
Reading lists for first semester modules on the School's MA programmes will be available here until the end of September (and here indefinitely). MA convenors will be adding reading lists over the next few weeks.
The MA Handbook for 2012-13 is also available here
Volunteer for Speech Research
Volunteers are sought for speech research. See the Speech Research Volunteer for further details.
Congratulations to Joanne Burns
The School would like to congratulate Joanne Burns on being granted a 'Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award' by the British Association of Romantic Studies. This will allow Joanne to conduct archival research on the poetry of Thomas Moore in the University of Reading.
A Symposium in Honour of Siobhán Kilfeather
A symposium in honour of our former colleague Dr Siobhán Kilfeather will be held this weekend.
The programme is now available here: Kilfeather Symposium - Programme
Saints and Scholars: New Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture in Honour of Hugh Magennis
Friends, colleagues and former students of Professor Hugh Magennis gathered in No Alibis bookstore on Botanic Avenue on Friday June 15th to celebrate the publication of a festschrift in Hugh's honour. Edited by Dr Stuart McWilliams, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh whose QUB thesis was co-supervised by Hugh, the book contains contributions from leading scholars of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture globally. Contibutors include, from Queen's, Prof Ciaran Carson, Dr Marilina Cesario, Dr Ivan Herbison, Medbh McGuckian and Prof John Thompson and more widely, Prof Mary Clayton (University College Dublin), Prof Joyce Hill (Leeds), Prof Malcolm Godden (Oxford), Dr Chris Jones (St Andrews), Dr Christina Lee (Nottingham), Dr Stuart McWilliams (Edinburgh), Dr Juliet Mullins and Dr Elisabeth Okasha (University College Cork), Prof Jane Roberts (London), Prof Donald Scragg (Manchester), Dr Mary Swan (Leeds), Prof Elaine Treharne (Florida State), Dr Robert Upchurch (North Texas), Professor Gordon Whatley (City University of New York), and Dr Jonathan Wilcox (Iowa).
Dr Stuart McWilliams and Professor Hugh Magennis
Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays in the volume. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate, they draw especially on Hugh Magennis’s own interests in hagiography and issues of community and reception. Taken together, they provide a ‘state of the discipline’ account of the present, and future, of Anglo-Saxon studies. The volume includes contributions from Heaney Centre staff and leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian.
Postgraduate Conference: Common Ground III
The third iteration of the School's 'Common Ground' postgraduate conference takes place on June 11th and 12th, with papers ranging from Anglo-Saxon concepts of geography, Robert Lowell and the American family, the representation of the new media in late Troubles fiction to 'wierd medievalism' in the fiction of M.R. James and music in the poetry of John Berryman.
The Literatures of Belfast
Monday 11th June, 1pm, Crescent Arts Centre
This illustrated lecture by Dr Eamonn Hughes will consider some of the lesser known and more unusual writing about Belfast with the aim of letting us look again at the city around us.
Dr Eamonn Hughes teaches in the School of English at Queen's University. He specialises in Irish History and Cultural Studies. His short history of Irish Literature was broadcast by BBC NI in 50 episodes in 2009. He is also a contributor to the LiteraryBelfast.org website and accompanying iPhone app.
Tickets are £3 and can be purchased from www.belfastbookfestival.com or in person from Crescent Arts Centre.
www.facebook.com/BelfastBookFestival
Twitter: @BelfastBookFest
Hashtag: #belfastbook
Congratulations to Erin Halliday
Many congratulations to Erin Halliday who has successfully defended her PhD thesis in Creative Writing entitled:
Chrysalis: Cuncta Fluunt: The Georgics and The Metamorphoses in Contemporary Flux
English students bring medieval play to streets of Belfast
The latest issue of Queen's Now reports on the efforts of students at the School of English to bring medieval drama to life on the streets of Belfast and around the Queen's campus, as part of practice-based research on a final year module. Congratulations to all the students involved! Read more
Congratulations to Yvonne McGivern and Elizabeth Scott
Congratulation to Yvonne McGivern on successfully passing her PhD viva. Her thesis was entitled: 'A novel, Buried: an historical forensic analysis of contested letters in the Forrest Reid Collection.'
And congratulations to Elizabeth Scott (PGR student in English) who has won the postgraduate ‘Research with Impact’ competition for the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences Faculty. The competition required Lizzie to write a 500-word article on why her research is important, explaining this to a non-specialist audience. Lizzie’s piece was on her PhD project: ‘Monologue to dialogue: linguistic factors affecting the interactive conversation of children with autism’.
Post-Feminism and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Professor Sarah Edge from the University of Ulster will be speaking on Friday 27 April on Post-Feminism and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland as part of the Ireland & Modernity seminar series. The seminar will take place at 1pm in the Senate Room, Lanyon Building. It will be followed by a workshop at 2.30pm in which postgraduate students will have the opportunity to discuss their research with Professor Edge and their peers.
All staff and students are welcome to attend Professor Edge's lecture. Any students interested in coming along to the PG workshop should register their interest by emailing irelandandmodernity@qub.ac.uk.
Farewell to Dr Michael McAteer
The School is very sorry to have to part ways with Dr Michael McAteer who is leaving us to take up a post at Péter Pázmány University in Hungary. He has been a Lecturer in Irish Literature here since 2002, but his connection with us goes back considerably further than that. Michael read for his BA and MA at Maynooth, but came to the School in the early 90s to study for his PhD. While at Queen’s, Michael has come to be recognised as a major figure in his field. His recent Cambridge monograph, Yeats and European Drama (2010), is an extraordinarily learned, subtle and intellectually distinguished work: a field-defining work. A distinctive agenda, to do with the wider topic of the European connections of Irish Literature, is indicated by this title. He will be well placed to develop this agenda with his new colleagues.
Michael has contributed to the School in very many ways, often beyond the call of duty. By their research students ye shall know them? Michael’s former research students are making their way in academe in a manner that is eloquent of the quality of supervision they received. As Examinations Officer he introduced the moderating system for marking at Stage 2.
But there is another contribution that he has made, and that is to foster a spirit of tolerance, forebearance, good will and good humour. These qualities, which I know we all rightly admire, can be hard to maintain in the pressurised life of a modern academic department, and I think we should be grateful to Michael for sustaining them with such grace.
If we will have fond recollections of Michael, it’s worth bearing in mind his own regrets at leaving, which it was characteristic of him to convey to me in the most unaffected and affecting manner. He tells me that he feels that his years here have been extraordinary, and remembers, for instance, attending a poetry reading in what used to be the Common Room while President Bill Clinton was greeting crowds across the road in front of the main Queen’s building. I suppose Yeats must have left his mark on our most refreshingly un-Yeatsian colleague, for there is something Yeatsian about a memory thus struck by a chance encounter with history.
The School wishes Michael every happiness and success in his new life in Hungary. They will certainly be richly deserved.
Professor Ed Larrissy, Head of School
March 1st, 2012
Heaney Centre graduate Miriam Gamble in Culture Northern Ireland Profile
'The Heaney Centre has probably the most impressive group of poets in Ireland.' So says Heaney Centre graduate Miriam Gamble, who is profiled by Culture Northern Ireland on the challenges of a move to Edinburgh following her debut collection The Squirrels Are Dead (2010), which won the Somerset Maughan Prize for first collection.
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize For First Collection 2012
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry has announced its 2012 Prize for First Full Collection, in association with the Glucksman Ireland House at New York University:
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry invites submissions for the Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2012. As part of the prize the winner will be invited to give a reading at the Glucksman Ireland House in New York, including travel expenses, three nights’ accommodation and an honorarium of $1000.
Click here for further information about the prize.
Poetry Summer School 2012
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry offers an intense week of creative practice in the Poetry Summer School 2012 which runs from June 25-29.
The week comprises a variety of sessions with seminars, group workshops and one-to-one tutorials with creative writing tutors. There will also be staff and student poetry readings. This year sessions are being offered by our own poets, Ciaran Carson, Leontia Flynn and Sineád Morrissey as well as by Gerald Dawe from the Oscar Wilde Centre in Trinity College Dublin and Jeff Thomson, a visiting Fulbright Fellow from the USA.
For further information, visit the Heaney Centre website.
The National Student Survey 2012
The National Student Survey is now in its seventh year and enables final-year students from across the UK to provide an assessment of their undergraduate experience, both for the benefit of prospective students, and for their own departments. From the NSS website:
What is the National Student Survey (NSS)?
The NSS is a national initiative, conducted annually since 2005. The survey runs across all publicly funded Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the majority of HEIs in Scotland. Additionally, Further Education Colleges (FECs) in England and Further Education Institutions (FEIs) in Wales with directly funded higher education students are eligible to participate.
The survey asks final year undergraduates to provide feedback on their courses in a nationally recognised format, students on flexible courses will be asked to participate as they near the end of their course but not necessarily in their final year. There are 23 core questions, relating to the following aspects of the student learning experience:
- Teaching on my Course
- Assessment and Feedback
- Academic Support
- Organisation and Management
- Learning Resources
- Personal Development
- Overall Satisfaction
- Students' Union (Association or Guild)
Students are also given the opportunity to give positive and/or negative comments on their student learning experience as a whole at their university/college. If you provide comments at the end of the questionnaire, we may pass these on, anonymously, to your institution to help them identify how they can make improvements.
We will shortly report on how the School has made a positive and proactive response to last year's NSS on our Education pages. To complete the Survey, click here.
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
"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.
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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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