fw: 2 PhD Studentships in the field of European Avant-Garde / Edinburgh

[claudia westermann]

2 PhD Studentships are available in connection with an AHRB-funded 
research project on "The European Avantgarde". The project explores 
relationships between avantgarde and neo-avantgarde manifestations in 
fine art, literature and cinema and aims at developing a new 
comprehensive theory of the avantgarde. For further information 
please consult the project's website at 
http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/langgrad/rprojects/

One of the studentships will be based at the University of Edinburgh 
under the supervision of Professor Dietrich Scheunemann. The research 
to be carried out will focus on literary concepts of the avant-garde 
with particular emphasis on visual and sound poetry of Dada and the 
concrete poetry of the neo-avant-garde.

The second studentship will be based at the University of Glasgow. 
The research, supervised by Dr David Hopkins, will focus on 
neo-avant-garde art with particular emphasis on Fluxus, Situationism 
and the post-war reception of Dada and Surrealism. Both studentship 
holders are expected to contribute to project publications.

The studentships are for the period of three years, starting on 1 
January 2003 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants are 
expected to hold a first postgraduate degree or are on course for 
such a degree. The studentships include the payment of tuition fees, 
a maintenance grant and an allowance for travel expenses.

Application is by letter and cv including the names of two referees. 
Please send applications for both studentships to Professor Dietrich 
Scheunemann, University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower, George 
Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JX.

The closing date for applications is 30 December 2002