Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): > Supernumerary Teaching Fellowship In Classical Language & Literature > St. John’s College, Oxford
>
> St. John’s College invites applications from suitably qualified > candidates for a five-year fixed-term Supernumerary Teaching > Fellowship (without membership of Governing Body) in Classical > Languages and Literature, with effect from 1 October 2010. The > successful candidate will have research interests in the literature of > the Classical period (that is between ca. 800 BC and ca. AD 500), in > Ancient Greek and/or Latin, and the ability to teach a range of core > subjects in one, or, preferably, both, languages and their literatures. >
> The person appointed will teach undergraduates reading for the Honour > School of Literae Humaniores and the associated Joint Schools > (Classics and English, Classics and Modern Languages, Classics and > Oriental Studies) up to a maximum of eight hours each week during > term. He or she will take responsibility for the character, > organisation and delivery of all the College’s undergraduate teaching > in Ancient Greek and Latin languages and literature, including > supervising arrangements made from time to time for extra language > teaching, and will represent these subjects, in collaboration with the > Tutors in Ancient History and Philosophy and the Joint Schools, in the > planning of all aspects of these degree courses at St. John’s. He or > she will also, therefore, participate in the undergraduate admissions > process, share pastoral duties, and take part in College outreach > activities. The election to the Fellowship will be for one year in the > first instance, and renewable thereafter for up to four years, subject > to a satisfactory report on the first year’s duties. The Fellow will > be a member of the University’s Classics faculty (Sub-faculty of > Classical Languages and Literature) and so part of Oxford’s lively and > successful Classics community, but will not be required to undertake > University teaching, examining, or administration, though he or she > may do so with the approval of the College; and the Fellow will be > encouraged to offer one course of eight University lectures each > academic year during the first four years of the appointment. >
> The person elected will already hold a doctorate and will be expected > to engage in original research. A period of sabbatical leave will be > made available in the final year of the appointment, to permit the > Fellow to further his or her research. The annual salary will be on > the incremental scale of £27,183 – £30,594 (subject to revision in > line with any general salary increases). >
> See the Further particulars at > > for information about how to apply for this post. Applications must > reach the College by not later than 29th January 2010. Please note > that E-mailed applications will not be accepted, nor will applications > received after the closing date. E-mailed references will be accepted > provided they are sent in the form of a scanned copy of a letter which > must include a signature.

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):

Statius and his epics: Work in Progress

The Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham and the Flavian Epic Network cordially invite participants for the following conference:

The University Club, University of Nottingham, Friday January 22 2010

10.00 ARRIVAL AND COFFEE

Gender:

10.15 Alison Keith (Toronto) on female monsters

11.00 Mairead McAuley (King’s College, Cambridge) ‘Bodies and narrative in Statian Epic’

11.45 Dalida Agri (Nottingham) on pudor

12.30 LUNCH

Genre:

1.30 Martin Dinter (King’s College, London) ‘Intermediality: Ekphrastic Modes in Statius’

2.15 Peter Heslin (Durham) ‘The Hypsipyle Epyllion’

3.00 Jörn Soerink (Gröningen) ‘The significance of the Opheltes episode’

3.45 TEA

Commentaries:

4.15 Philip Mottram (Liverpool) and Alberto Pavan on Thebaid 6

5.15 Antony Augoustakis (Baylor) on Thebaid 8

6.00 CLOSING REMARKS AND WINE RECEPTION

If you would like to attend, please send a cheque (made payable to ‘The University of Nottingham’) for £20 (£15 students/unwaged), with an indication of any dietary requirements, by Monday January 11th to:

Helen Lovatt,

Department of Classics,

University of Nottingham,

University Park,

Nottingham

NG7 2RD

It is also possible to pay by credit card: please contact me for a form. There are 40 spaces in the room, so book early to avoid disappointment!

I am also organising dinner at a local restaurant; please let me know if you would like to join us. Information on travel to the University of Nottingham and campus maps is available from:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/universityparkcampus.aspx

The University Staff Club is no. 8 on the printable PDF map:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/documents/universityparkcampusmap.pdf

If you need accommodation overnight, there are some cheap B&Bs in Beeston, reasonably near to Beeston station and the place where I am planning to go for dinner. These are the Andrews hotel and the Hylands hotel; you can find many options on the tourist information site at http://www.visitnottingham.com/, although it doesn’t bring up the hotel nearest to campus, which is the Toby Carvery:

http://www.innkeeperslodge.com/lodgedetail.asp?lid=45 (a bit more expensive at £60 per night).

The university also has a hotel reservation service, which might be an easier way of doing it. Advisors provide up-to-the-minute information and will match a hotel to your particular requirements, taking care of all the administration for you. You will also benefit from pre-negotiated preferential rates with major city hotels providing you with substantial savings.

For further details please contact one of the Hotel Reservation Service advisers on:

Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 5011 / 13640

Fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5018

Email: hrs AT nottingham.ac.uk

If there are any other problems or questions, please do get in touch with me by e-mail: helen.lovatt AT nottingham.ac.uk.