PhD Bursary Competition: 19th Century Children's Literature (20 March 2009)

[Maeve]

Hello,

The Department of English at The University of Exeter is currently
running a competition to fund 7 fully funded, and 16 part-funded PhD
projects. The competition is open to both UK and international
students, and does *not* require dual-applications to other external
funding (e.g. AHRC). The deadline for applications is the 20th March
2009.

*See Competition Details:
http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/academic/scholarships/search/scholarship.php?id=202

This is an open call competition, and applicants do not need to have
arranged a supervisor in advance. However, I thought members might be
interested to hear that there is a particular interest in the
department in developing two strong collections on 19th century
children's literature held in the Exeter area:

1. The Chris Brooks Collection in our library special collections
(predominantly Victorian fiction for boys, the collection also has a
large number of children's periodicals.)

2. The Devon Collection of Children's Books: contains a large number
of Victorian texts, plus some remarkable examples of 17th and 18th
century texts for children.

*See My Research Resources at Exeter:
http://americanchild.wordpress.com/research-resources/

There are two members of staff with expertise in Children's Literature
and Culture in the English Department: myself, Maeve Pearson and
Robert Mack.

My main specialism is 19th century transatlantic exchanges (especially
Henry James); representations of childhood in literature for adults
and children, and authors who have written for both children and
adults (Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, etc). Robert Mack has taught
extensively on children's literature from the 18th century onwards,
and is currently working on The Arabian Nights (on which he is a world
class expert) in children's literature.

The department is also home to one of the largest research groups in
Victorian Literature and Culture in the UK.

* See Staff Interests

Maeve Pearson: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/english/content/view/1284/3/

Robert Mack: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/english/content/view/222/3/

* Exeter Centre For Victorian Studies.
http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/centres/cvs


Please contact me if you have any queries (m.pe...@exeter.ac.uk):
and thank you in advance to the moderator for posting this.