Translating Cultures: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in a World Context

Code: RPAS2009NOV06
Please ensure that you quote this code on your application form under 'Intended Source of Funding' if you wish to be considered for funding under this research theme.

We are interested in exploring how the arts matter internationally, taking up central questions of translation as it is understood in the AHRC's future research theme Translating Cultures: not merely translation from one language to another, but translation as cultural exchange, in the form of translation from one media or discipline to another, or between theory and practice. This is to focus on the political dimension of translation in the present, a time in which translation has a key role to play in matters of war and peace.

Candidates interested in joining the project who do not yet have a Masters degree can apply for funding to take one of our Research Preparation Masters: the MLitt in Comparative Literature or the MLitt in Visual Culture.

Available studentships

In addition, the committee awarding studentships for the project will be able to allocate some funds towards maintenance.

Closing date: Friday 23 April

Possible Research Titles and Topics

Principal Investigator: Dr. Janet Stewart
Applicants are strongly advised to contact the principal investigator or a member of the supervisory team before submitting their application form and research proposal.

While these are not exhaustive of the thesis topics the project may consider supporting, they do give a fairly clear idea of the types of projects which the supervisory team would be keen to see investigated.

• Minor Cinema and Art
• The Politics of Landscape (Film and Photography)
• Investigating Art as Thought in the Literature, Film and Music of the Haitian, Antillean and West African Traditions
• Writing (in) the Museum: Constructing Knowledge Through Text
• The Role of the Art Institute in Oil Cities
• The City as a Space of Experiment
• The Laboratory as a Creative and Critical Site in Contemporary Art
• Cinema and the Construction of the Critical Spectator
• Performing Self and Community
• Spaces for Creation / Spaces for Performance: A Study in Electroacoustic Music
• Thinking the Archive
• Developing a New Concept of the Working-Class Aesthetic