PhD in Humanities

The Faculty of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex seeks to appoint a postgraduate research student to the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project ‘Promiscuous Print: Legal Deposit Libraries, Rejected Texts, and New Methods for Negative Bibliography’ (PromPrint). Hosted by the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (SHL Digital) and led by Principal Investigator Dr Hannah Field, PromPrint uses digital tools and quantitative analyses to uncover the rejects of legal deposit: the printed texts excluded from the ostensibly universal archive promised by copyright libraries. The PhD project will focus on the relationship between obscenity and deposit, and explore key questions related to the preservation or suppression of obscene texts in nineteenth-century Britain.