The Department of Humanities is delighted to invite applications for 15 University-funded Studentships. Successful candidates will be awarded a full fee waiver (home and EU students only) and £5,000 per annum bursary for three years (all students, including international), to commence in September 2010.

Schools of study include the following areas in English:

Creative Writing

* Two Creative Writing Studentships are available.

English Literature

* Early Modern Appropriations: Responses to the Renaissance Literary Canon from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day
* Republicanism in the Early Modern Period: Reading, Writing and Practice
* Fashioning the Body Politic: Medical and Political Discourses of the Body in the Eighteenth Century
* Female Authors and the Romantic-period Literary Salon
* Trains, Planes and Automobiles: Modern Literature and New Technologies of Transport (1880-1950)
* Contemporary Sexualities / Contemporary Places: Theories and Representations of Sexualities and Place, 1990s to the Present

Linguistics

* World Englishes / English as an International
* Variability and Redundancy in Linguistic Representation
* Learning Words from Context in L2
* Cognitive Linguistics

Further Particulars and Applying: We are looking to recruit candidates of the highest quality, with the capability of submitting excellent theses within the standard PHD duration of 3 years. You will need to demonstrate a strong performance in your first degree (probably a first) as well as a good MA qualification. We will, however, consider applicants straight from undergraduate degrees where there is evidence of exceptional academic ability. Prospective candidates from overseas should contact us concerning entry requirements.

Once you have chosen your thesis topic, please apply to gill.drinkald@northumbria.ac.uk (Telephone 0191 227 3880) for further particulars and the relevant application form.

The closing date for applications is 18 March 2010.

Further information is available on our website http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/phdstudentship/>view=...