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  • Why study at Manchester?

Why study at Manchester?

'I've really enjoyed studying for a PhD at Manchester. The postgraduate community in English and American Studies is very supportive, and my supervisors were excellent. It was also exciting to be involved with an interdisciplinary research environment, with lots of opportunities for interaction with other subject areas.'

• You will be taught by scholars who are at the forefront of their fields and are undertaking and publishing cutting-edge research
• You will be taught innovative, hands-on research techniques as well as key theoretical  approaches
• You will be able to use a world-class research library
• You will be part of a dynamic graduate community

Former members of the EAS postgraduate community who have jobs in academia:

Burcu Alkan, will graduate at the ceremony in July 2009, and will take up a job as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Bogazici University in Istanbul.

Anna Ball, who graduated in 2008, has a job at Nottingham Trent: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/70394-1-2/Dr_Anna_Ball.aspx

 

Dalia Mostafa has a 4 year post-doc in Middle Eastern Studies (with CASAW- Centre for  Advanced Studies in the Arab World) at Manchester:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/dalia.s.mostafa/

 

Holly Craggs, who graduated in 2008, has a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Leicester.

 

Mario Cesario has a lectureship at Brasenose College, Oxford.

 

Letizia Alterno, Editor-in-Chief of the Raja Rao Publication Project (2006) recently completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, a vibrant cosmopolitan venue which has hosted significant encounters during the last four years with current post-colonial critics such as Gayatri Spivak, Gyan Prakash, Neil Lazarus and Homi Bhabha. During her research years at Manchester, she has benefited from the active organization of conferences, seminars and other cultural events sponsored by the Postcolonial and Irish Studies group at the department of English and American Studies. A significant university facility has been The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, which houses some major colonial collections including the East India Company Papers and the India Empire Collection.

 

 

Current Students:

http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/research/phdstudents/