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University researchers awarded distinguished fellowships
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:14:00 GMT
University researchers awarded distinguished fellowships
Dr. Natalya Vince and Dr. Páraic Finnerty have both been successful in their application for an early career fellowship with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The awards are a significant achievement as fewer than 10% of applicants are successful and two have been awarded to University researchers within a few days of each other.
Dr. Natalya Vince
Dr. Natalya Vince is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Area Studies and a researcher attached to the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR). Her current research explores the relationship between nation building, gender and narratives of the past across different generations and geographical spaces in Algeria. It is based on extensive fieldwork, notably oral histories with women who participated in the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), and a case study of how trainee teachers in Algiers receive and reproduce dominant histories and familial memories of the conflict.
Dr. Vince is a graduate of Balliol College, University of Oxford, completing her PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. She lived and worked in Paris before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2007. Dr Vince has already published a number of journal articles and book chapters, and the AHRC award will enable her to complete her first monograph. Faculty Strategic Funding enabled Dr. Vince to complete additional research for the project which enhanced the quality of her bid and increased its potential for success.
Dr. Páraic Finnerty
Dr. Páraic Finnerty is a researcher at the Centre for Studies in Literature. His current research is on the American poet Emily Dickinson and how she read and responded to major British writers such as the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. The research will be published as a monograph in Edinburgh University Press’s transatlantic series.
Dr. Finnerty is a graduate of University College Dublin, where he studied English and Philosophy. He completed his PhD at the University of Kent and joined the University of Portsmouth in 2004. Dr Finnerty attributes his success in obtaining this fellowship to his track record, having already published his first monograph on the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Dickinson. He is also working on a co-authored book on Victorian celebrity culture, which is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.
These awards are an excellent example of the flourishing research agenda in the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences. For further information on grant funding or to contact an academic directly please contact the University’s research office on 023 92846191 and they will arrange to put you in contact with the relevant person.