The English Department in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis seeks to fill a research associate position in Shakespeare Studies, beginning in August 2011 (with a one-year contract, renewable up to four years). The research associate will join a team working on a new multi-platform edition (print and digital) of Shakespeare’s Complete Works, to be published by Oxford University Press (general edited by Terri Bourus, John Jowett, and Gary Taylor).

Preference for Ph.D. in hand, but ABD candidates will also be considered. Candidates must have training in, and enthusiasm about, early modern bibliography and/or textual studies, performance or book history. We will begin considering applications immediately and continue until the positions are filled.

Applications, including a cover letter, c.v., and three letters of recommendation, should be submitted online as Word or pdf files, addressed to Dr. Terri Bourus at tbourus@iupui.edu. We hope to conduct Skype interviews of select applicants before June 30, 2011. IUPUI is an EEO/AA Employer, M/F/D.

Book Encounters, 1500-1750

Friday 1 July 2011, Corsham Court Centre, Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University’s newly formed Book, Text and Place (1500-1750) Research Centre is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, ‘Book Encounters, 1500-1750’. In keeping with the Centre’s focus on early modern literary culture, place, and the history of the book broadly defined, this conference explores a wide variety of encounters with the book: from different cultural and geographical sites of production, circulation and reception to various disciplines and periods within early modernity.

Conference fees: £30; £20 students (note: a conference subvention covering fees for students has been generously provided by The Bibliographical Society; students interested in attending the conference should contact Chris Ivic c.ivic@bathspa.ac.uk)

Information on the Book, Text and Place (1500-1750) Research Centre is available at http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/humanities-and-cultural-industries/researc h/book-text-and-place/

PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK

A PhD fee-waiver scholarship in the School of English at the University of Leicester is available for a research student. PhD proposals should be in the area Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, or The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period.

The award is for a student registering in October 2011 and covers fees up to £3,732 (the equivalent of Home/EU fees) for 3 years. Only new PhD students are eligible. The financial package covers full-time Home/EU fees only, but international and part-time students are encouraged to apply. Successful international students would themselves pay the difference between the Home/EU fee award and the international fee. Details can be found at
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/postgraduate/funding

22nd July, University of Warwick

Keynote: Professor Margaret Ezell, Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts, University of Texas A&M

Speakers: Helen Hackett, Gillian Wright, Elizabeth Clarke, Sarah Ross, Jayne Archer, Rebecca Bullard, Johanna Harris, Sajed Chowdhury, Elizabeth Scott Baumann

This interdisciplinary one day symposium will explore meanings and dynamics of the structures of early modern female miscellanies and commonplace books, the histories of reading they reveal, notions arising of authorship and miscellaneity, the role of women as ‘vouchers’ or adjudicators of literary materials, and the transmission of knowledge in these female compilations.

For registration & programme see website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/femalemiscellanies

For more information contact Dr Femke Molekamp (Warwick): f.s.molekamp@warwick.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2011-12, renewable)

The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seeks a post-doctoral fellow in the History and Future of the Book, with expertise in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. This position is based in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Victoria, U Western Ontario, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow’s work will bridge between digital humanities and the history of books and reading, collaborating with INKE’s Textual Studies team, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The fellow will be expected to teach a light course load in the Faculty of Information and the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture, to be remunerated in addition to the fellowship’s salary.

The original ad may be found here: http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/alumni-careers/work-at-the-ischool

to Dan Wakelin, who is leaving Cambridge to take up the Jeremy Griffiths Professorship of Medieval English Palaeography at Oxford. Dan has been a convenor of the History of the Book/HMT seminar for many years, and has been a key player in the CMT from the start. We will miss him greatly, but hope that this will be the start of many a collaboration.

The New York Public Library is pleased to announce the availability of 20 fellowships to support visiting scholars conducting studies in the Library’s unique research and special collections between June 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. The Fellowship stipend is $2,500. Scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, or independent research are invited to apply. Applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents with the legal right to work in the U.S. Applications must be received by April 1, 2011, in order to be considered.

Complete guidelines are posted at: http://www.nypl.org/short-term

Fellowships are open to academic and non-academic researchers. All applications should indicate how the Library’s unique collections are essential to the proposed research. Identify specific material(s) to be consulted during the fellowship period and their relevance to the project. Include the location of collection items within the Library’s research divisions and special collection units.

Please visit www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-collections for detailed information about the research resources of The New York Public Library.

The deadline for applications is April 1, 2011.

Since Cambridge’s Lent term is rapidly drawing to an end, it may be worth reminding everyone that for this term only readers are allowed to take cameras into the University Library for fairly unrestricted use in Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Maps (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/photog.html). We hope that this pioneering experiment will prove successful and that the freedom to photograph for research purposes will be made permanent. And that it will become a model for rare books libraries and archives that currently restrict digital photography.

On Thursday 10 February, our first Lent Term seminar will take place from 1-2 (with
opportunity for informal discussion after 2) in the Ramsden room, St Catharine’s College.

Our speaker, Dr B. Zs. Szakacs, will talk about a digitalized manuscript, the lavishly illuminated Angevin Legendary. The original codex having been cut into separate pieces, it now exists as a unified work only thanks to
modern technology.

All welcome. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please email Dr Nora Berend (nb213@cam.ac.uk) Feel free to bring your own lunch!

CMT members may be interested in a new journal to be launched this year entitled EAST ASIAN PUBLISHING AND SOCIETY. The journal is dedicated to publishing in East Asia, from the earliest times up to the mid-twentieth century and will bring together multi-disciplinary research from scholars addressing publishing traditions in China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan. East Asian Publishing and Society envisages to publish articles that cover the production, distribution and reception sides of publishing. It wants to provide a forum for studies directed at the whole spectrum of printed information, such as books, single sheet prints, journals and the like. The journal is however not limited to publishing in woodblock print format only; contributions on manuscript culture and new technologies developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will also be welcomed by the editorial board. Additionally, topics as readership, libraries, relation between government and publishing world and more are to addressed in the East Asia Publishing and Society journal. The members of the editorial board are Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University; Matthi Forrer, Leiden University; Chris Uhlenbeck, independent scholar; and Hilde De Weerdt, Oxford University.

The first issue will be published later this year and will include articles on Korea and China, as well as book reviews. Submissions are welcome! For more information, or to contribute, contact the managing editor, Peter Kornicki, Cambridge University (pk104@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Peter Kornicki
Deputy Warden
Robinson College
Cambridge
CB3 9AN