Postdoc - Lord Chamberlain's Plays Project

Fri Jun 10 12:23:45 EDT 2005

Hello all,
The following call for applications may be of interest.
--Leanore Lieblein

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Sent: 09 June 2005 18:07
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Subject: [SCUDD] job advertisement

Below is a readvertisement for a Research Assistant on the Lord Chamberlain's Plays project, the previous appointee haviong dropped out. The date of appointment this time is October 2005.

Royal Holloway

University of London

Post-doctoral Research Assistant

Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Library, is seeking a postdoctoral research assistant from October 2005 until 30 September 2008, to work on the AHRB-funded project 'Buried Treasure: rediscovering the Lord Chamberlain's Collection of Plays.'  Mid-Victorians agreed with G.H. Lewes that 'drama is extinct as literature.' But during the span of the project, 1852-1866, over 3000 plays were licensed for performance. These undervalued manuscripts were stored for many years in dark and inaccessible cupboards and cellars until transferred to the British Library in 1973, and although they are now stored in optimum conditions, it has so far been difficult to open them up to new critical perspectives or to re-evaluation as performances rather literary achievements. We propose to uncover and publicise a first slice of the hidden wealth of these political pantomimes, imperialist melodramas, versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, farces about feminism, and who knows what more.

The Assistant will be trained in the use of the Manuscript online cataloguing system, and will work through the manuscripts creating entries that describe each of them as fully as possible, tracking down authors, theatres of first production and sometimes sources or analogues, and describing the plays so that they can be accessed by scholars in all disciplines. S/he will be interested in the art, literature and social history of the Victorian period, with a PhD in theatre studies, English or a similar area; a reading knowledge of French would be useful, as would a temperament inclined to perfectionism and accuracy, and an inexhaustible and persistent curiosity about the history of performance. The post could be suitable for a job-share.

Salary will be in the range £21,594 - £24,641 p.a. inclusive.

Further details and an application form are available from the Personnel Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX; fax: 01784 473527; tel: 01784 414241; web-site: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/JobVacancies.htm 

Please quote reference KB/004331

Closing date for the receipt of applications is Noon, Thursday 7 July 2005.

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community

Jacky Bratton

Professor of Theatre and Cultural History

Royal Holloway, University of London

01743 891118 

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Professor Leanore Lieblein
Department of English
McGill University
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Montreal (QC) H3A 2T6
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