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Niklaus-Cartwright PhD Studentships
University of Exeter

Proposals due by 15 November 2015

Through the generosity of Professor Michael Cartwright (French, Exeter 1960), and the Professor Robert Niklaus fund, established to support and strengthen eighteenth-century French studies, the Department of Modern Languages at Exeter is delighted to be offering excellent funding opportunities for exceptional researchers in the area of French Studies. Three Doctoral Studentships (open to UK/EU students only) will provide full tuition fees and an annual maintenance grant for three years. The maintenance grant will be £14,057 per year. At least one studentship is expected to be awarded in the field of eighteenth-century French studies.

The Department prides itself on its vigorous research culture, in which postgraduate research students play central roles. Our academic staff produce excellent research across a wide variety of disciplines including European and other global literature and culture, Art History and Visual Culture, Film, Linguistics, Medieval studies, Gender studies, and Translation. Modern Languages at Exeter is ranked in the Top Ten within the UK and in the top 150 language departments worldwide. Committed to providing outstanding, research-led teaching, the department maintained its momentum in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) with nearly a third of its research classified as ‘world-leading’—more than double that of the previous assessment. The REF also underlined what a great place Exeter is to pursue research in languages and culture: the department was rated 100% for providing ‘an environment that is conducive to producing research of world-leading (70%) or internationally excellent (30%) quality’. In French we have a wide range of research specialists and research interests, covering many aspects of French literary and visual culture from the medieval to the contemporary, linguistics, and French thought.

Research interests in French

•Specialists in linguistics carry out research in the sociolinguistics and linguistic variation of contemporary French.
•Recent and contemporary writing: including biographical fiction, women’s writing, and modern critical theory.
•Medieval French literature and culture
•Renaissance thought and literature
•French and Francophone cinema
•Seventeenth century literary studies
•Eighteenth and nineteenth-century visual art and literature.

Research carried out by staff in French deals with issues including the reception of Classical myth, sexuality, gender, war and trauma, and questions of ‘race’, citizenship, and national identity.

Entry criteria

We invite applications from candidates with a strong academic background and a clear and engaging research proposal which can be developed through available research supervision. Successful applicants normally have a good first degree (at least 2.1, or international equivalent) in Modern Languages or a Humanities discipline, and have obtained, or are currently working towards, a Masters degree at Merit level, or international equivalent, in Modern Languages or a Humanities discipline. If English is not your native language then you will also need to satisfy our English language entry requirements.

There is a French language requirement for candidates taking up these opportunities. All candidates will have achieved at least A-level French or equivalent.

To apply

To be considered for these doctoral awards, you must complete an online web form where you must submit personal details and upload a full CV, research proposal, transcripts, details of two referees and, if relevant, proof of your English language proficiency, by 15 November 2015. In addition you must also ensure that your referees email their references to the Postgraduate Administrator at humanities-pgadmissions@exeter.ac.uk by 15 November 2015. Please note that we will not be contacting referees to request references and so you must arrange for them to be submitted to us by the deadline. References should be submitted by your referees to us directly in the form of a letter. Referees must email their references to us from their institutional email accounts. We cannot accept references from personal/private email accounts, unless it is a scanned document on institutional headed paper and signed by the referee.

Please note that if you have already submitted references to support your application to one of our MPhil/PhD programmes you may re-use these to support your funding application.  However, this is not automatic and you must email us at humanities-pgadmissions@exeter.ac.uk to confirm that we have two references on file to support your application, and to request that they be used to support your funding application.

All application documents must be submitted in English. Certified translated copies of academic qualifications must also be provided.

For more information contact:
Dr Matt Barber, Graduate School Administrator
humanities-pgadmissions@exeter.ac.uk
College of Humanities Graduate School, University of Exeter
Queen’s Building, The Queen’s Drive
Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QH

For informal enquiries, contact Professor Melissa Percival, M.H.Percival@exeter.ac.uk

MA in the Art Market and the History of Collecting
The University of Buckingham

Full and partial scholarships available

A one-year MA offered by the University of Buckingham and the National Gallery in association with Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collections) investigates American and European art markets and cultures of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day. The course is taught by staff from the University of Buckingham, the National Gallery and Waddesdon Manor.

A unique feature of the course will be access to two of the greatest surviving art dealers’ archives: Agnew’s, acquired by the National Gallery in 2014, and Colnaghi’s, housed since February 2014 in the Windmill Hill Archive, Waddesdon Manor. It is the first MA in the UK to offer, under the guidance of experts, practical training on how to use, unlock and analyse these rich holdings.

Full and partial scholarships available generously funded by P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd. Apply now for January 2016. For further information see the website  or contact: Claire Prendergast, Claire.Prendergast@Buckingham.ac.uk or Jeremy Howard jeremy.howard@buckingham.ac.uk.

From caa.reviews:

Dissertation Listings

PhD dissertation authors and titles in art history and visual studies from US and Canadian institutions are published each year in caa.reviews. Titles can be browsed by subject category or year.

Titles are submitted once a year by each institution granting the PhD in art history and/or visual studies. Submissions are not accepted from individuals, who should contact their department chair or secretary for more information. Department chairs: please consult our dissertation submission guidelines for instructions. The annual deadline is January 15 for titles from the preceding year.

In 2003, CAA revised the subject area categories of art history and visual studies used for all our listings, including dissertations. These categories are listed in the Dissertation Submission Guidelines.

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The index for 2014 lists eight eighteenth-century dissertations completed, including:

• Cannady, Lauren, “Owing to Nature and Art: The Garden Landscape and the Eighteenth-Century French Interior” (IFA/NYU, T. Crow)

• Fox, Abram, “The Great House of Benjamin West: Family, Workshop, and National Identity in Late Georgian England” (Maryland, College Park, W. Pressly)

• Francis, Razan, “Secrets of Enlightenment Spain’s Contested Islamic Craft Heritage” (MIT, D. Friedman)

• Marchand, Marie-Ève, “L’histoire de l’art mise en pièces. Analyse matérielle, spatiale et temporelle de la period room comme dispositif muséal” (Université de Montréal, J. Lamoureux)

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and forty-one dissertations in progress, including:

• Brosnan, Kelsey, “Seductive Surfaces: Anne Vallayer Coster and the Eighteenth-Century Still Life” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)

• Cooper, John, “Imperial Balls: The Arts of Sex, War, and Dancing in India, England, and the Caribbean, 1780–1870” (Yale, T. Barringer, R. Thompson)

• DiSalvo, Lauren, “Micromosaics as Grand Tour Souvenirs in Europe from the Early Eighteenth Century to the Late Nineteenth Century” (Missouri, M. Yonan, K. W. Slane)

• Gratta, Eva, “‘Great Links of the Chain’: Maritime Imagery in North America, 1750–1850” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)

• Greenberg, Daniel, “A New Imperial Landscape: Ritual, Representation, and Foreign Relations in the Qianlong Court (1735–1796)” (Yale, Y. Kim)

• Mitchell, David, “Mimetic Heresies: Waxworks in Paris, 1661–1723” (McGill, A. Vanhaelen; R. Taws)

• Presutti, Kelly, “Terroir after the Terror: Landscape and Representation in Nineteenth-Century France” (MIT, K. Smentek)

• Rado, Mei, “Xiyang Textiles in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Imperial Court: Fabrication, Display, and Representation of the West” (Bard Graduate Center, F. Louis)

• Ridlen, Michael T., “Prud’hon and the Graceful Style” (Iowa, D. Johnson)

• Szalay, Gabriella, “Materializing the Past: The History of Art and Natural History in Germany, 1750–1800” (Columbia, K. Moxey)

• Von Preussen, Brigid, “The Antique Made New: Commercial Classicism in Late Georgian Britain” (Columbia, A. Higonnet)

• Wunsch, Oliver, “Painting Against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)

Historians of British Art Travel Award
Proposals due by 15 October 2015

HBA is accepting applications for this year’s Travel Award. The award is designated for a graduate student member of Historians of British Art who will be presenting a paper on British art or visual culture at an academic conference in 2016. The award of $750 is intended to offset travel costs. Applicants must be current members of HBA. To apply, send a letter of request, a copy of the letter of acceptance from the organizer of the conference session, an abstract of the paper to be presented, a budget of estimated expenses (noting what items may be covered by other resources), and a CV to Kimberly Rhodes, Prize Committee Chair, HBA, krhodes@drew.edu. The deadline is October 15, 2015.

Richard Livesay, Captain Richard Grindall and His Family, ca. 1800 (Greenwich: National Maritime Museum). More information about the painting is available here»

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From AAH:

Portraiture and the British Naval Officer, ca.1740–1805
Full-time Collaborative PhD Studentship, University of East Anglia, 2015–2018

Applications due by 11 May 2015

The University of East Anglia, in partnership with the NMM and the NPG (both part of the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, the Thames Consortium), is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a full-time collaborative PhD studentship undertaking the first sustained critical study of British naval officers’ portraits (paintings and prints) between the period of Britain’s emergence as a world maritime power and that power’s consolidation at Trafalgar, for three years commencing 1 October 2015. The research will address the production, reception, dissemination and significance of eighteenth-century British naval officers’ portraits whilst also contributing to related online publications, research and events within the NMM and the NPG.

The successful applicant will be based at the NMM, the NPG and the Department of Art History and World Art Studies (UEA). The studentship is funded through the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award programme, and includes tuition fees up to the standard Home/EU amount and an annual stipend. Funding for PhD studentships from AHRC is available to successful candidates who meet the UK Research Council eligibility criteria. Applicants should hold (or expect to achieve) a Master’s degree and either a 1st Class or Upper 2nd Class Honours degree in a relevant discipline.

More information is available here»