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New Research Awards
Two Faculty members, Dr Peter McCullough and Dr Abigail Williams, have recently been awarded significant external funding for their research.
Dr McCullough has been awarded funds by the AHRC for a five-year project, working with an international team of scholars, to produce an edition of the Sermons of John Donne. This project will produce the first annotated critical edition of the sermons. The edition will be published in 16 volumes by Oxford University Press, and will also be made available in electronic format. The project will provide an unmatched resource for those interested in Donne's writings (students, teachers, scholars, and the wider public), but it will also be invaluable to students of the history of preaching, religion, the law, the court, and politics in the period.
Dr Williams has been awarded funds by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year project to create an online and freely available index to the contents of approximately 1000 eighteenth-centry poetic miscellanies. She will be collaborating on the project with Professor Michael Suarez, of the University of Virginia, and Dr Adam Rounce, of Manchester Metropolitan University.
The Digital Miscellanies Index will enable users to search collections of verse by poets, titles, first lines of poems, publishers, themes, or formats. Based primarily on the most extensive collection of poetic miscellanies in English in the world (the Harding Collection in the Bodleian Libary, Oxford), this database resource will be the first of its kind, allowing scholars and students to trace in detail the availability and popularity of any individual work or poet throughout the period. It is an interdisciplinary venture, drawing together scholarship and expertise from the combined disciplines of eighteenth-century literary studies, musicology, the History of the Book, and applied statistical analysis. The Index will be hosted by and in collaboration with the Bodleian's Centre for the Study of the Book, and will also involve a public concert, radio programme and exhibition based on material from the miscellanies.