The content of the MHRA’s journals has now been committed to Portico for digital preservation:
MHRA Journals now committed to Portico for digital preservation
27 Friday Jan 2012
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University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies from 1907 — database updated
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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The MHRA is pleased to announce the updating of the open-access UTREES database with a further 197 records relating to recent theses.
Beginning in a handful of universities in the early years of the last century, British and Irish postgraduate research on Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe grew rapidly in the post-war period. It has been given further impetus by the fall of communism and the multitude of political, cultural and economic consequences which ensued. This bibliography registers more than a century of academic study devoted to a vitally important area of the world.
The bibliography records doctoral and selected masters’ theses from British and Irish universities – over 4,100 in all. It covers all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as they relate to the area of Russia, the former USSR and Eastern Europe. It is believed to be the fullest and longest record of postgraduate research in any interdisciplinary field of study, and reveals a strikingly broad range of topics and treatments: from Pushkin to Putin; from the Cold War to the transition economies; from the Bogomils to Solidarity; and from health care to human rights.
Slavonic & East European Review (90:1) January 2012 now published
10 Tuesday Jan 2012
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The January 2012 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online through JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program, and includes articles on Turku Romantics and the Question of National Language; The Myth of Vasilii Rozanov the ‘Holy Fool’ through the Twentieth Century; Replacing the Liberum Veto in the Eighteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; and book reviews.
The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.
MLR January 2012 now published
10 Tuesday Jan 2012
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The January issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print (despatch begins 9 January) and online through JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program. This issue includes articles on:
The Tradition of the Female Quixote
Translations of Baudelaire in Spain
The Role of the Periodical Editor
Money in Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana
Love in Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea Voyage
Remembrance in the Folie Tristan Poems
Corneille’s Suspension Points
Victor Hugo’s Poetry of Progress
Utopia, Venice, and Ruzante’s Pavan
Infinity and One in Borges’s ‘El inmortal’
Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Literary Responses to Also sprach Zarathustra
Publitsistika and Nineteenth-Century Russian Crime Fiction
and book reviews.
The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.
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MHRA AGM & Presidential Address 2012
05 Thursday Jan 2012
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The Annual General Meeting of the Modern Humanities Research Association will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday 18 May in the Library at the Institute of Materials, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF (nearest underground stations Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross). The minutes of the 2011 AGM and the agenda for the 2012 meeting will be included in the Annual Bulletin for 2012 which will be despatched in April 2012.
Each year, the Association chooses as President a scholar of international repute who delivers the Presidential Address immediately after the AGM. The Association is delighted to welcome Professor Donald Rayfield, Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary, University of London, as President for 2012.
The Presidential Address will be delivered at the Association’s registered office, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF, on Friday 18 May 2012 at 6:00 p.m. All welcome.
Austrian Studies 19, ‘The Austrian Noughties’, Now Published
12 Monday Dec 2011
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It is far too early to determine whether the noughties constitute a distinct period of literary or cultural history with specific characteristics all of its own. It is, nevertheless, timely and illuminating to take a look at individual phenomena that characterize this decade.
The articles in this volume discuss certain topical debates (for example surrounding the infamous Austrokoffer literary project, or the debates about pension provision and about religion), they identify emerging trends in Austrian film (the hybridization of genres and the use of the mock-documentary as political intervention), and they highlight new departures in literary expression (recent Romani writing and the rise of the multi-generational family novel).
Other contributors to Austrian Studies 19 identify literary engagement with features of contemporary culture (the author as celebrity or the textual exploration of sound and image in the digital age). Finally, The Austrian Noughties volume does not neglect to probe new publications of established authors such as Arno Geiger, Doron Rabinovici, Robert Menasse, Christoph Ransmayr and Josef Winkler.
MHRA Research Associateships 2012-2013
07 Monday Nov 2011
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The Association intends to make up to four research awards of £18,000 for the academic session 2012–2013 (with a start date on or after 1st October 2012). The deadline for applications is 31 January 2012. The awards will normally be for one year only, but applications will be considered from projects that have previously held an Associateship.
One aim of the awards is to provide an interim academic position to scholars who have not yet obtained a permanent academic post. The importance of this aspect of the position is highlighted by the fact that in recent years the tenure of an Associateship has frequently assisted the holder to obtain a permanent university lectureship soon afterwards.
Details are available here.
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MHRA Conference Grants 2012
07 Monday Nov 2011
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The Modern Humanities Research Association intends to make up to ten grants of up to £1,500 p.a. each to support conferences or colloquia within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures (including English) held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland and organised by academics based at UK or Irish institutions. There will be two application rounds in the calendar year with up to five grants awarded in each round; the schedules for 2012 are set out below.
Deadlines and Timescales
Application deadline: 31st January 2012
Decisions expected by: end of March 2012
For conferences taking place between: 1st September 2012 and 28th February 2013.
Application deadline: 31st July 2012
Decisions expected by: end of September 2012
For conferences taking place between: 1st March 2013 and 30th September 2013.
Applications can only be considered in the correct round, based on the planned date of the conference.
The awards will not be made to individuals to attend conferences, but to the organizers of conferences to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students.
Details are available here.
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Slavonic & East European Review (89:4) October 2011 now published
03 Thursday Nov 2011
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The October 2011 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online, and includes articles on Petr Suvchinskii; Austria, Russia, and the Danubian Principalities, 1829-40; Researching MI6 and Romania, 1940-49; and The Body of the Jew in Russian Literature.
The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.
Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature for report year 2010 now published
14 Friday Oct 2011
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Volume 85 of The Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, which covers material published in the year 2010, is now published. This new volume includes more than 20,000 records of articles, books, and reviews relating to English-language literature published throughout the world.
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