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PhD Studentships with the Department of French Studies
The Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick currently has a thriving postgraduate research community with 18 PhD students, and welcomes applications for the following fully-funded PhD studentships (academic fees at home/Euro rates + maintenance or academic fees at overseas rates + maintenance) commencing October 2014.
* 3 prestigious Wolfson Foundation Scholarships in the Humanities recently awarded to the University in the areas of History, Literature and Languages. The first 2 Warwick Wolfson Languages Scholarships in 2012 and 2013 have gone to students from French Studies. The Wolfson scholarships include £6000 a year to spend on research travel, books, etc.
* 25 University-wide Chancellor's scholarship studentships for entry October 2014. Funding is for 3 1/2 years and covers academic fees at either home or EU rates + maintenance.
* 25 University-wide International Chancellor's scholarship studentships for entry October 2014. Funding covers academic fees at oveseas rates + maintenance.
The competitions are combined; applicants only apply once and will be considered for all awards for which they are eligible. More information about the application process can be found here.
To be considered for these awards, you must have applied for admission to the University by 13 January 2014.
Potential candidates should make contact initially with the Department's Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Katherine Astbury: katherine.astbury@warwick.ac.uk, preferably as soon as possible but by mid-December at the latest in order to allow sufficient time to work on the research proposal before the funding deadline.
Fabienne Viala to speak at Islands in Between conference, Aruba, 6-10 November 2013
Fabienne Viala
will speak on bilingual Creole/French street theatre in Martinique in the paper “Performance and Collective Memory in Martinique: Teat’lari and the Caribbean anamnesis,” to be delivered at the Islands in Between: Language, Literature and Cultures of the Eastern Caribbean, Aruba, 6-10 November 2013.
New collection of essays on Rancière
Dr. Oliver Davis, Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies, has edited an important new collection of specially commissioned critical essays on Rancière, published by Polity Press. Oliver has also contributed an essay and a substantial interview with Rancière to the volume. The essays encompass Rancière’s early historical research of the 1960s and '70s, his critique of pedagogy and his later political theory of dissensus and disagreement, his ongoing analysis of literature and 'the aesthetic regime of art', his resistance to psychoanalytic thinking, and his recent publications on film and film theory.
Christabelle Peters to speak at The Traveller's Eye conference, Bucharest, 24-26 October 2013
Christabelle Peters will be giving a paper entitled "Présence Africaine and the Post-WWII Construction of Mobile Africanicities" at The Traveller’s Eye: Narrating Dis/Location in 20th Century Travel Literature conference, to take place at the University of Bucharest from October 24th-26th 2013.
Kirsty Hooper to speak at Iberian & Latin American Transatlantic Studies Symposium, Oregon, 1-2 November 2013
Kirsty Hooper will speak on 'Extraimperial Archives: Other Mobilities and Memories in the Hispanic Transatlantic World' at the Iberian & Latin American Transatlantic Studies Symposium to be held at the University of Oregon from 1-2 November 2013.
Christabelle Peters awarded Santander mobility grant for travel to Brazil
Congratulations to Dr Christabelle Peters, who has been awarded a Santander Mobility grant to fund research visits to Bahia, Minas Gerais and São Paulo in order to investigate the concepts of ‘Bahianess’(bahianidade) and ‘mixedness’ (mestiçagem). Dr Peters plans to travel to Brazil in May 2014.
Fabienne Viala to speak at Black Jacobins Revisited conference in Liverpool, 27-28 October 2013
Dr Fabienne Viala will deliver a paper, 'Sabotage, commemoration and performance: The Black Jacobins and Maryse Condé's An Tan Revolysion', at the conference The Black Jacobins Revisited, International Slavery Museum / The Bluecoat, Liverpool, 27-28 October 2013.
The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession
Dr Kirsty Hooper, Hispanic Studies
Dr Hooper is writing up a book called The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession, which explores the early 20th-century boom in British interest in Spain. The book considers academic and cultural scholarship, art and museums, travel and tourism, popular fiction, and the illustrated press, all of which brought ordinary people into closer contact with Spain and its culture than ever before. You can read more about the project on the Leverhulme Trust website.
In May 2013 she spent a day filming in Madrid with Michael Portillo, for the new series of 'Great Continental Journeys' and was very excited to walk down the aisle at Los Jerónimos church with Señor Portillo.
Post-Columbus Syndrome: Cultural Nationalisms and Commemorations in the Hispanic, French and English Caribbean
Dr Viala is finishing a book entitled Post-Columbus Syndrome: Cultural Nationalisms and Commemorations in the Hispanic, French and English Caribbean, which analyses representations of Christopher Columbus in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinque and Jamaica at the time of the 1992 anniversary.
Written Corrective Feedback on Written Work in the Process of Second Language Acquisition
Dr Clemencia Rodas-Perez, Hispanic Studies
Dr Rodas-Perez is researching written corrective feedback on written work in the process of second language acquisition.
Her work is initially focused on three European languages, from which she expects to identify the practices, opinions and perceptions of Language tutors and their students.
Race and National Identity in Angola
Dr Christabelle Peters, Hispanic Studies
Dr Peters is developing a book project that examines the interconnection between race and national identity in Angola.
Her current research is a critical comparative study on the impact of a range of social discourses on anti-colonial and post-colonial projects in the Iberian Atlantic, particularly in Angola, Brazil and Cuba.
World Film Locations: Buenos Aires
Dr Santiago Oyarzabal, Hispanic Studies
Dr Oyarzabal is currently co-editing a book called 'World Film Locations: Buenos Aires' which includes a trip to the Argentine capital to discover and photograph locations for iconic films such as 'Nueve reinas' or 'El secreto de sus ojos'.
He is also writing on Argentine film star Ricardo Darin, and is preparing a book proposal to publish his PhD thesis, which investigates representations of crisis in recent Argentine films.
Global Circulations of Cultural Memory Debates in the Luso-Hispanic Worlds
Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Professor Ribeiro de Menezes is starting to research the topic of global circulations of cultural memory debates in the Luso-Hispanic world. Her research took her to Lisbon, Portugal in July and to Derry, Northern Ireland, in Autumn 2013.
Hispanic Liverpool
This project aims to uncover the traces of Liverpool’s role as a hub in the 19th-century networks that connected Spain and Portugal with Latin America. The core of the project is a database of some 2000 19th-century Liverpool residents born in the Luso-Hispanic world; another part of the project aims to trace and record the locations where Hispanic Liverpudlians lived and worked, many of which have already disappeared, or exist only as ruins.
The Atlantis Project: Women and Words in Spain 1890-1936
Literary histories of Spain give the impression that women writers disappeared entirely from cultural and intellectual life in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, but there is evidence that hundreds of women were reading, writing, publishing and commentating in Spain on issues of individual, social, local, and national interest during the first decades of the 20th century. The goal of this project is to track down, recover, collect and analyse bio-bibliographical information about women writers in Spain during the first decades of the 20th century: the project database currently contains over 500 women writers, 1,600 works and 180 translations from the period 1890-1936.
Embodying Memory in Spain
Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Hispanic Studies has finished a book entitled 'Embodying Memory in Spain', discussing contemporary debates on the legacies of the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship
Welcome to all our incoming students!
Hispanic Studies are thrilled today to welcome their first-ever cohort of undergraduate students, as well as three new MA students!
Italian at Warwick ranked 3rd in Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2014
Italian at Warwick has been ranked in 3rd place in the latest Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide. This impressive result places Warwick just below Cambridge (1st) and Oxford (2nd).
The full rankings can be found at http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/University_Guide/
Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies Annual Conference 2015
The newly established Department of Hispanic Studies is delighted to have been chosen to host the annual conference of Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies (WISPS) in 2015.
Date to be confirmed nearer the time
Major research award: Transnationalizing Modern Languages
Researchers in Italian at Warwick are central in a £1.8m research project recently funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its ‘Translating Cultures’ theme.