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New PhD Scholarship announced
The Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago invites applications for a new doctoral scholarship in literary studies: The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship.
The scholarship celebrates the granting of UNESCO City of Literature status to Dunedin, New Zealand, where the main campus of the University of Otago is located. The scholarship is open to applicants of any nationality and to any area of literary studies.
The Department of English and Linguistics welcomes applications for PhD projects across a broad range of areas ranging from medieval to digital literature. Department strengths include New Zealand and postcolonial literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, eighteenth-century literature, Romanticism, comparative literature, global modernism, cognitive approaches to literary studies, literature and language pedagogy, linguistic approaches to literature, contemporary poetry and fiction, creative writing, Irish and Scottish studies, the history of the book, and new media literature.
Applications for the inaugural University of Otago City of Literature Scholarship are invited on or before 1 February 2018.
Burns Fellowship 60th anniversary event
Saturday, 8 September 2018
This event will be part of a series of events to celebrate the Burns Fellowship 60th anniversary.
Burns Fellowship 60th anniversary event
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Burns Fellowship 60th anniversary event
Meet the 2018 University of Otago Arts Fellows
Sunday, 29 July 2018
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, Dunedin
The Fellows will talk about their work and aspects of the creative process, and you can ask them questions.
Jane Austen and the women’s rights movement in Georgian England
Friday, 22 June 2018
- Burns 2 lecture theatre, 95 Albany Street
Professor Sheryl Craig (U of Central Missouri) speaks on Jane Austen's influence upon on the women's rights movement in Georgian England. Please note change of venue - Burns 2, no longer Castle C
Otago hosts Jane Austen 200
Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:00am
Professor Paul Tankard will kick off the University’s commemorations of the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death this evening with a talk exploring the times, life, works and legacy of the 18th century novelist.
Accent reveals Shakespeare’s meanings
Monday, 17 July 2017 9:21am
Author and actor Ben Crystal visited Otago last month, giving an eye-opening talk about what can be learned from hearing and speaking Shakespeare’s works as they were originally pronounced.
Special Collections offers weekly tours of new exhibition
Friday, 9 December 2016 1:38pm
Weekly tours through the University’s latest Special Collections exhibition will offer visitors a chance to hear some of the more complex stories of the literary families on display.
2016 Arts Fellows given warm reception at the Hocken
Tuesday, 15 March 2016 1:50pm
This place is charming, eclectic, even seductive, according to the Arts Fellows for 2016.
“Perfect guest” at Otago for World Book Day
Wednesday, 2 March 2016 12:48pm
In a significant coup for Otago, rare book dealer, writer, broadcaster and founder of two private presses Dr Rick Gekoski will give the 2016 World Book Day Lecture tomorrow evening.
Ackerley “part of a very lucky generation”
Wednesday, 15 July 2015 10:57am
“I had a moment in my youth, slightly inebriated, sitting on some Christchurch student flat floor, when I thought, ‘oh dear, I’ve fallen in love with literature’,” recollects Otago English Professor Chris Ackerley, who retired this month.
