St Anne S College and St Hilda S College, Oxford

Brasenose and St Anne’s Colleges, Oxford

FIXED-TERM STIPENDIARY LECTURERSHIP IN ANCIENT HISTORY

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The Appointment

Brasenose and St Anne’s Colleges invite applications for a fixed-term Stipendiary Lectureship in Ancient History for a period of six months, starting on 1 October 2008; the post is to cover the research leave of Dr E.H. Bispham, and may be extended for a further three months if an application for further funding is successful. No university post is associated with this Lectureship, which is open equally to men and women.

The Colleges

Brasenose College is one of the older foundations in the University of Oxford. Originating in one of the Medieval halls of the University – the gate of which was presumably adorned by its still surviving ‘brazen nose’, or sanctuary door-knocker – it was founded by Royal Charter as the King’s Hall and College of Brasenose in 1509.

The College today has some 370 undergraduates and 170 graduate students. There are some 40 fellows and 35 lecturers. There is a non-academic staff of about 80. Brasenose is one of the medium-sized Oxford colleges and is known for its friendly atmosphere.

The College is a self-governing institution. The ultimate authority for all decisions rests with the Principal and Fellows. The Governing Body is serviced by a structure of committees, including the Academic Committee, concerned with academic policy and administration, and the Finance Committee and the general purposes Committee, concerned with other aspects of the management of the College.

The College values academic excellence and is concerned to foster research as well as high-quality teaching. It has a substantial library, mainly for undergraduate use, including a separate Law library, and well-developed IT provision. This is an exciting time for the College as its quincentenary approaches, and a number of new academic initiatives are planned.

The objectives of the College are to:  contribute to providing an excellent education for high-ability undergraduates;  support the University’s graduate programmes within the College framework;  promote research and scholarship;  provide pastoral care and material support to all members engaged in education and research;  establish and maintain links with all those interested in supporting its activities;  enhance and pass on to future generations its inherited values and assets.

1 Detailed information about Brasenose College may be found at http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk.

St Anne’s College can trace its origins back to 1878, when it was established to promote the education of women. The College has always had pioneering ambitions, and it went mixed in 1979. It was the first college in the University to provide Nursery facilities for its Fellows and Staff. There is currently a roughly equal mix of men and women in both the Senior and Junior Common Rooms. At present the College has 50 members on its Governing Body.

St Anne’s is committed to developing subjects at the boundaries of traditional disciplines and to integrating undergraduates, graduates and research and tutorial fellows in ‘Subject Families’. Subject family evenings are held regularly, with lectures by graduates and researchers, organised by our Research Fellows in each of 4 subject areas (Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences). We also hold a termly Domus seminar, where Fellows present aspects of their own research to the Fellowship, and hence we aim to ensure a broad and stimulating intellectual environment for our Fellows, and the post- and undergraduate student body.

Additional information about the College can be found at the St Anne’s web site: http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Classics at Brasenose

Brasenose has an established strength in Classics and Joint Schools. The College hosts the Camden Chair of Ancient History (current incumbent, Prof. A.K. Bowman); the Tutorial Fellows are Dr Ll.W.G. Morgan (Classical Languages and Literature), Dr Edward Bispham (Ancient History) and Dr Thomas Johansen (Ancient Philosophy); Dr D. Robinson (Director, Oxford Hilti Institute for Maritime Archaeology) holds a William Golding Junior Research Fellowship at the College; Dr O. Bobou is a Junior Teaching Fellow in Classical Archaeology. The research excellence of the College can be seen in the research outputs of the faculty, and in the recent award of a Leverhulme Fellowship to Dr Morgan. There are some 28 undergraduates currently reading Classics, as well as another four reading for Joint Schools (Classics and English, Classics and Modern Languages, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History). The College’s results are strong: this year saw four Firsts in Classics Mods and one in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Mods; three Firsts in Classics finals (Greats) and one in Ancient and Modern History finals. These results are representative of the level of achievement in recent years, and make Classics one of the top-performing subjects within Brasenose. The College has close teaching and research links with St Anne’s (see below); and there is a thriving Ancient History/Classical Archaeology Graduate discussion group (organised with Lincoln College).

2 Classics at St Anne’s

St. Anne’s has a strong and long-established Classics School. This consists of Prof. Matthew Leigh (Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature); Dr. Roger Crisp (Tutor in Philosophy); Dr. Edward Bispham (Lecturer in Ancient History); Dr. Fabianne Marchand (British Academy Research Fellow, Ancient History). The research excellence of the Classics School is reflected in the award of Leverhulme Fellowships to both Prof. Leigh and Dr. Crisp in the course of the last 6 years. There are currently 23 St. Anne’s undergraduates studying Classics and Joint Schools rising to 27 next year. Results in Mods and Greats are strong; we have recorded Firsts in each exam for the last 5 and 3 years respectively; our last 7 students in Classics and English, Classics and Modern Languages, and Ancient and Modern History all took firsts; and we are now the top- performing Humanities discipline in St. Anne's. Our students have also been successful in competition for University prizes.

St. Anne’s has an active Classics Society, which organises termly speaker meetings, various social events and summer reading parties to Cornwall. We also hold a termly symposium with Brasenose College, in which one speaker from each college discusses an aspect of his or her research. Further opportunities for intellectual exchange are also provided by the Principal's regular Subject Family Seminars, the organisation of which is the responsibility of current Junior Research Fellows and Career Development Fellows. There is a very lively academic culture within St. Anne's and considerable opportunity for the lecturer to share ideas and discuss his or her work.

College Duties

 To undertake 9 hours per week of teaching in tutorials and classes averaged over the two 8-week terms which constitute the tenure of the post (some of the teaching may be of students from other colleges, under exchange arrangements).  To provide academic and curricular guidance and support to the students reading Classics and Joint Schools.  To be responsible for organising the teaching for these undergraduates and for arranging such external teaching as is necessary at the usual rates agreed by the University’s Senior Tutors’ Committee.  To have pastoral responsibility for undergraduates reading Classics at both Colleges  To support the activities of the BNC/St. Anne’s Research Symposium, the St Anne’s College Classics Society and the BNC/Lincoln Archaeology & History discussion group.  To play a full supporting role in the December admissions exercise for both Colleges.  To undertake general administrative duties in relation to the teaching of Classics, which will include participation in undergraduate recruitment activities such as Open Days.  To oversee the setting and marking of collections (i.e. internal examinations).

3 Qualifications; Areas of Expertise

The successful applicant will normally be expected to hold a doctorate, or to have submitted (or be certain to submit before the end of September 2008) a thesis for a doctoral degree in Ancient History.

No particular area of expertise within Ancient History is sought, but teaching experience (of text-based and non text-based papers) in more than one of the following fields will be an advantage:

Greek History: Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic Roman History: middle Republic/Hellenistic, late Republic, early Imperial

The following special subjects / topic papers are also taught; again experience in teaching one or more will be an advantage:

 Religions of the Roman World  Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World

The successful applicant will also be expected to contribute to the team-taught interdisciplinary Texts and Contexts paper on the following topics: the Symposion in Archaic Greece (with special reference to Greek lyric poetry); State and Individual (with special reference to fifth century B.C. Athens); Games and Spectacles (with special reference to late republican and early imperial Rome).

Remuneration and Facilities

The Lecturer will receive a salary on the scale £17,252 - 19,417 (subject to annual review). In view of the fact that teaching is not required for the full year, the successful applicant will be paid two thirds of this amount. This sum is pensionable.

The Lecturer will be entitled to a teaching room in Brasenose College, SCR rights at Brasenose, and membership of the Senior Common Room of St Anne’s. The Lecturer will be entitled to five meals per week during term and vacation free of charge at the Common Table at Brasenose; and to a fixed number of meals per week (to be decided) at St Anne’s.

The Colleges will pay for the cost of entertaining colleagues and students to a maximum figure, currently £ 125.00 per annum (under review). The Colleges will pay up to a maximum figure of £ 130.00 per annum (under review) to support the Lecturer’s teaching and research.

4 Application Procedure

Applications (four copies) should include the ‘Appointing Committee’ form [below], a curriculum vitae and a statement indicating your suitability for the post and which subjects you would be willing to offer. Please send or email your application to the College Secretary, Mrs Wendy Williams, Brasenose College, Oxford OX1 4AJ (email is acceptable: [email protected]), by 5pm on Tuesday 22 July 2008. Applicants should also ask two referees to write directly to the College Secretary, Mrs Wendy Williams (address as above), by the same date (email is acceptable: [email protected]). We hope to interview for this post in the week beginning 11 August.

Selected candidates may be asked to submit copies of written work to the College. As part of the interview process, candidates will be asked to give a short talk of 15 minutes’ duration on an aspect of the current their research, suitable for a general academic audience.

5 FIXED-TERM STIPENDIARY LECTURERSHIP IN ANCIENT HISTORY

Candidates are requested to complete this form for the information of the Selection Committee

Name in full Title

Date of birth Are you eligible to work in the UK? Yes/No If No, do you require a visa/work permit?

Please provide here the address, telephone, fax and email address where you can be contacted if you expect to be away from your permanent address (please give dates when you will be away)

Current (or most recent) university

Degrees held, with dates

Names and addresses of the two referees who have been asked to write directly to the College Secretary, by Tuesday 22 July 2008 1.