Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK & University of Nottingham

Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship worth £4,000 per year, commencing in the 2012-13 academic session.  The award is for one year in the first instance, renewable for a further two years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The successful candidate will be based in the Department of American & Canadian Studies, part of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at Nottingham.

Applicants must be British or Canadian citizens who are permanent residents of the UK eligible to pay home/EU fees. Research proposals are invited on a broad range of subject areas relevant to Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences. The research project should contain a substantial Canadian element. We particularly welcome research proposals in the following areas of specialism:

• contemporary Canadian writing in English;
• Canadian film, television and popular culture;
• hemispheric or border studies;
• women's writing;
• writing by First Peoples;
• queer writing.

Todd Swift will be having a launch reading-reception, at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, to be held 6.30-8.00pm, Thursday, August 16th, 2012.

This will be for Swift's 8th poetry collection, When All My Disappointments Came At Once, from Tightrope Books (Toronto, 2012).

He will be joined by three other Canadian poets, Ian Burgham, Catherine Graham, and Griffin-winner A.F. Moritz, who will each read briefly.

Swift is Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing, The Kingston Writing School, Kingston University, and a widely-published Canadian poet, critic and anthologist.    Please RSVP by 2 August.

Ian Burgham is the author of three highly regarded poetry collections; A Confession of Birds (MacLean Dubois), The Stone Skippers (Tightrope Books), and The Grammar of Distance (Tightrope Books). His fourth volume of poetry will be published in November of this year by Quattro Books of Toronto. Burgham is the winner of the Queen's University Poetry Award and has been nominated for the Relit Award for his collection, The Stone Skippers, released in 2008. His work has appeared in many literary journals including the Literary Review of Canada, the Dalhousie Review, the Queen's Quarterly, the Journal of the Poet's Union of Australia, the New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, the Antigonish Review and others.

Catherine Graham is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections: The Watch (Abbey Press) and the poetry trilogy Pupa, The Red Element and Winterkill (Insomniac Press). Anthologized in The White Page /An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets and nominated for three ReLit Awards, her work has appeared in such journals as The Malahat Review, Descant, Poetry Ireland Review, The New Quarterly, Literary Review of Canada, The Fiddlehead and The Frogmore Papers. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where she was nominated for an Excellence In Teaching Award. 

A. F. Moritz's most recent book of poems is The New Measures (2012). The Sentinel (2008), was awarded the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize in 2009. His poetry has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Award of Poetry magazine, selection to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and other honors. His poems have appeared regularly in such magazines as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Hudson Review, Yale Review, Agni, Partisan Review, etc. 

Applications are now sought for Conference Grants for scholars working on any aspect of the Americas. At least six conferences will be funded under this scheme in 2012-13, to a value of up to £2,200 per conference.

For full terms and conditions, selection criteria and other particulars, please click here.

Closing date: 1 August 2012 (mid-day UK time).