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Arts Prizes and Fellowships 2019-2020

2020

  • Professor Alison Cooley from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. “The Evolution of Tiberian Political Discourse” will revisit one of the most exciting discoveries to have been made in recent decades, which illuminates political life in early imperial Rome. Read more…
  • Dr Christopher Sirrs from the Department of History has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to undertake a project entitled "Hazardous Hospitals: Cultures of Safety in NHS General Hospitals, c.1960-2012." He will analyse the development, promotion and institutionalisation of ‘safety cultures. This includes attitudes, values and behaviours attuned to safety, as well as the systems and processes that have supported and sustained them. Read more...

  • Dr Maria Barrett from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies has been awarded a POST Parliamentary Academic Fellowship for a project entitled “ Widening the Pool: Engaging with More Diverse Expertise in the Cultural Field in a Covid and Post-Covid Environment.” Dr Barrett will work with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee to diversifying the pool of experts who advise it - amplifying the expertise, knowledge and opinions of previously unheard voices. Read more...

  • Dr Claudia Daniotti from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project entitled "Morally Ambiguous Ancient Women in European Art, c. 1350-1620." Dr Daniotti will investigate literary and iconographic traditions during the medieval and Renaissance period of women from antiquity who defied contemporary social expectations by exercising ‘masculine’ virtues or vices, such as strength, courage and ambition. Read more...
  • Dr Esther van Raamsdonk from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled “The Politics of Biblical Narrative in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Context.” She will conduct an extended comparative study of the two key bible translations of the 17th century – the King James and the Statenvertaling – that connects the editions’ editorial and theological decisions with contemporary re-tellings of biblical narratives. Read more…
  • Dr Federica Coluzzi from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to develop her new project entitled "Dante's Transnational Female Public in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789–1921)." Read more...
  • Dr Grace Redhead from the Department of History has been awarded an ESRC Research Fellowship for research exploring identity, citizenship and sickle cell anaemia in the postcolonial NHS. Through her research, she will capture varied experiences of sickle cell anaemia and healthcare across Britain, where services have evolved in a patchwork, ad-hoc fashion. Read more...
  • Dr Harry Warwick from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project “Pipework: Energy, Environment, and Dystopia in Post-1960 Anglo-American Culture." It will focus on post-1960 Anglo-American fictions in relation to the era of growing public climate change awareness in the UK and USA. Read more...
  • Professor Helmut Schmitz from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship. The Fellowship, entitled “Love and Intimacy in Contemporary German Language & Literature” will be the first full-length study in English of contemporary literary representations of love and intimacy in contemporary German language and literature. Read more…
  • Professor Kirsty Hooper from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. “Hispanic London: Culture, Commerce and Community in the Nineteenth-Century City” will aim to produce an empirically-grounded history of London’s nineteenth-century Spanish community and its cultural, intellectual and material legacy. Read more…
  • Dr Michelle Devereaux from the Department of Film and Television Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Entitled “Gender, Trauma and Cavellian Scepticism in Contemporary Film and Television”, Dr Devereaux will analyse a variety of screen stories that feature central characters undergoing sceptical crises stemming from past trauma. It will specifically study how characters express such crises in relation to their gender. Read more...
  • Dr Pedzisai Maedza will join Theatre and Performance Studies in January 2021 to undertake a Newton International Fellowship to work on a project entitled "Chains of Memory in the Postcolony: Performing and Remembering the Namibian Genocide." Read more...
  • Professor Peter Marshall from the Department of History has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project entitled “Culture and Belief in Orkney, 1468-1800.” He will explore the history of early modern Britain from the perspective of its geographical edge – specifically Orkney, which is situated at the intersection of the British and Scandinavian worlds. Read more…
  • Professor Rebecca Earle (History) and Professor Mark Harrison (Economics) have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding research. They were among 52 new Fellows announced in July 2020 by the prestigious institution, which supports and promotes the humanities and social sciences in the UK and around the world. Read more...
  • Dr Tomos Hughes from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for his project “Shadowing the Master Class: Proslavery in the Black Radical Imagination.” His research will uncover the contradictory utopian dreamworlds of nineteenth-century pro-slavery print culture in the USA, and asks what it means to take seriously black radical writers’ creative engagement with this understudied tradition. Read more…
  • Dr Xiaona Wang from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance has secured a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Her project, entitled "From Falling Bodies to Orbiting Planets: A New History of Gravitational Theories in Europe", will examine the history of gravity from 1200 to 1800. She will address the conceptual, methodological, and disciplinary aspects of key theories, and relate them to religious and metaphysical concerns of the period. Read more...

    • Professor Charlotte Brunsdon from the Department of Film and Television Studies has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Television Cities (2018), Law and Order (2011), London in Cinema (2007) and The Feminist, the Housewife and the Soap Opera (2000). Read more...
    • Dr David Grundy from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Never by Itself Alone: Sexual Poetics in San Francisco & Boston, 1944-Present.” His research will focus on the history of gay poetry in San Francisco and Boston from 1944 to the present. Extending from the 1950s through to Stonewall and the AIDS crisis, it will provide a reassessment of literary movements of historical and contemporary relevance. Read more...
    • Dr Giovanna Laterza from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has received a Newton International Fellowship for her project entitled "Material Worlds: Making Knowledge in Vitruvius' De Architectura." One of the most significant manifestations of the Augustan Revolution was a radical "epistemic shift", a fundamental change in the conceptualisation of knowledge. Her project will focus on material representations by which Vitruvius' 'On Architecture' depicts knowledge and cognitive processes. Read more...
    • Dr Hannah Boast from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project entitled "Water Crisis and World Literature." Dr Boast will analyse literary works from countries experiencing water crisis to explore how literature registers or resists dominant ways of managing and imagining water, both reflecting the water crisis and imagining a way out of it. Read more...
    • Dr Imogen Peck from the Department of History has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Dr Peck will undertake the first dedicated study of annotations inscribed in almanacs - annual publications listing events in the forthcoming year - in Britain and North America during the early modern period. Read more...
    • Dr Justin Tackett from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project entitled "Hearing Pictures: Poetics, Intertitles, and the Afterlives of Silent Film." Dr Tackett will develop the first comprehensive poetics of silent film in the period of 1880-1930. He will explore how everyday practices of reading, memorizing, and performing nineteenth-century poetry guided film’s development. Read more...
    • Professor Mark Knights from the Department of History has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project entitled "Corruption and the Abuse of Office in Britain and its Empire, c.1600-c.1850." His research focuses on political culture in early modern Britain and its empire - particularly corruption in Britain and its empire, the integration of political and social history, the nature of public discourse, the role of print, and the interaction of politics, literature and ideas. Read more...
    • Dr Micaela Canopoli from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled "The Sacred Landscape of Attica Under Roman Rule (1st cent. BC - 4th cent AD)." The research project will analyse the characteristics of Attic religious sites under Roman rule between the first century BC and the fourth century AD. Read more...
    • Professor Nadine Holdsworth from Theatre and Performance Studies has been awarded the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) David Brady Prize for Outstanding Research for her book entitled "The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre" (Palgrave, 2018), which was co-written with Professor Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Professor Jane Milling (University of Exeter). Read more...
    • The School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures will hosts three of the eleven 2019 Leverhulme Early Career Fellows announced by the University. The researchers awarded Early Career Fellowships in the School are Dr Kate Moffat, Dr Julia Peetz and Dr Bethany Rex. Read more... 
    • Dr Shrikant Botre from the Department of History has received a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for his project entitled "The invention of vegetarian India: Marathi dietary politics, 1900-1960." He will analyse early 20th century popular western Indian (Marathi) nutrition literature on meat, milk, fasting and a balanced diet, and explore the complex interrelationships that connect foods with social orders in India. Read more...
    • Dr Shrikant Botre from the Department of History has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for a project entitled The invention of vegetarian India: Marathi dietary politics, 1900–1960. He will analyse the early 20th century popular western Indian (Marathi) nutrition literature on meat, milk, fasting and a balanced diet. He will explore the country's complex interrelationships that historically connect food with social orders. Read more...
    • Dr Timo Schrader from the Department of History has received a Fritz Thyssen Foundation Research Fellowship for his project entitled “Super Citizenship: American Veterans and the Fight for Human Rights.” The project will produce the first comprehensive history of veteran activism and protest in the US. Read more...
    • Professor Will Eaves from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has been awarded the Wellcome Book Prize for his book entitled "Murmur" - a fictionalised account of the chemical castration of mathematician and World War Two code breaker, Alan Turing. Read more...