Congratulations to Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Dr Barraclough will hold her fellowship in the Faculty of English, with an affiliation to The Queen’s College, and will be working on a research project mapping the literary landscape and conceptual geography of the […]
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Dr Denis Casey awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey for being awarded a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society for Renaissance Studies (http://www.rensoc.org.uk). Dr Casey’s project proposes to analyse Christopher Nugent’s primer for Queen Elizabeth I, within the contexts of Renaissance second language teaching and mnemonics, and Gaelic grammatical tradition.
Continue ReadingWallenberg Prize 2011
The Scandinavian Studies Fund Managers agreed to award this year’s prize to two candidates – Moa Höijer (Hughes Hall – Department of ASNC) for her work entitled ‘Perceptions of an Outcast: Loki’s Motivation in Lokasenna’ and to George Walkden (Clare College – Department of Linguistics) for his work entitled, ‘The Correspondence Problem in Syntactic Reconstruction’. […]
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