Junior visiting research fellowship
The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture is establishing a Junior Visiting Research Fellowship scheme aimed at exceptional emerging international scholars. The Institute invites postgraduate students to consider applying for a Fellowship. While the Fellowships do not include a stipend, they do give students an academic habitat in the heart of London, a community of like-minded colleagues and students working across the arts, humanities, and cultural institutions, a University library card, access to a dedicated postgraduate room, a computer terminal, and so forth. For enquiries contact the Institute's Director, Dr Marquard Smith.
Courtney Hoft
Courtney Hoft will be a Visiting Junior Research Fellow in the Institute from July 2010. She is currently completing a PhD at University of California, Davis provisionally entitled 'Story Networks: The Politics and Poetics of Mass Collaboration', on the narrative possibilities of Web 2.0 and its convergence of media forms such as internet serial narratives, alternate reality games, and viral marketing. Her research traces a trajectory across the twentieth century from collaboratively authored novels, through developments in film, to the rise of internet platforms as participatory environments. We look forward to welcoming Courtney later in the year.
Andrea Díaz
Andrea Díaz is completing her PhD in the Department of Art History at University of Barcelona. Her doctoral thesis offers a critical dialogue between video installation and the gallery audience, and addresses questions of experience, temporality, and the public. Andrea will be at the Institute from July 13th - October 15th, 2009.