Applications are invited for one fully-funded PhD studentship for the period 1 October 2011 to 31 September 2014, working under the supervision of Professor Alison Sinclair (Spanish and Portuguese) in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. The studentship offers tuition fees and a maintenance grant in accordance with Research Council eligibility criteria, which means that the studentship is not available to citizens of non-EU countries.
Applicants are asked to submit a cv, and sample piece of written work. They are also asked to propose a research topic within the scope of the project. They should submit this proposal on one side of A4. Topics proposed are expected to fall within the framework of the project and/or drawing on the pliegos sueltos. Some general approaches and possible topics are indicated below.
- Crime and the fictional imaginary in Spain
- Against wrongdoing’: discourses of warning and admonishment in the writings of wrongdoing
- Patterns of response to delitos de sangre (violent crime) in Spain 1800-1900
- The aesthetics of wrongdoing: excitement and incitement
- Crime, city and country
- Imaginaries of retribution and come-uppance
- ‘Against agency’: original sin, heredity, the environment in fiction and non-fiction
Scholarship Application Deadline: 7 March 2011
