Fellowships and visiting posts

Staff frequently attract offers of visiting fellowships and professorships. Recent examples include:

• Dr. Matthew Birchwood: Visiting Scholar at AHRC-funded Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (2003-) and Research Fellow at University of Leiden (2003)
• Dr. Brycchan Carey: Research Associate of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2005-6)
• Dr. Norma Clarke: Stipendiary Visiting Fellow at Institute of Advanced Study, University of Indiana, Bloomington (US) (September 2002)
• Professor Vesna Goldsworthy: Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UCL, with affiliation to the Bartlett School of Architecture (2005-)
• Professor Rafey Habib: Fulbright Scholar to Kuala Lumpur International University, Malaysia (2004-5)
• Emeritus Professor Avril Horner: Visiting Professor, University of Zaragoza (April 2007 and May 2005) and Visiting Professor, University of Toulouse le Mirail (February-July 2002); Visiting Scholar at the Beinecke Library, Yale University (October/November 2004; funded by the British Academy)
• Dr. Erica Longfellow: Visiting Short-term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington) (2004)
• Dr. Andrew Teverson: Visiting Fellow at the Krishna Somers Foundation, Murdoch University (2007)

The quality of staff work has been recognised by various awards and prizes, including:

• Dr. Brycchan Carey was awarded the Society of Early Americanists' Annual Essay Writing Prize, 2004.
• Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' and her novel The Lucky Ones was nominated for the Whitbread Prize Best Novel. In 2005 In the Fold was nominated for the Booker Prize Best Novel (2005). In 2007 her novel Arlington Park was short-listed for the Orange Broadban Prize for Fiction.
• Liz Jensen (Writer in Residence) was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006 and was awarded an Arts Council grant in 2001. In 2002, her novel War Crimes for the Home was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her 2004 novel, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, is being adapted for film by Anthony Mingella.
• Hanif Kureishi's novel Intimacy was adapted for the film Intimacy by Patrice Chereau in 2001; this won two Bears at the Berlin Film Festival, a Gold Bear for Best Film, and a Silver Bear for Best Acress (Kerry Fox). His drama The Mother was adapted for film by Roger Michell and won a joint First Prize in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes Film Festival. Kureishi's 2006 screenplay, Venus, was nominated for the following awards: Oscar, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Broadcast Film Critics Association and Golden Globe; Peter O'Toole was nominated for the Best Actor Category. Kureishi has been the subject of a number of academic monographs, including Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi (Manchester University Press, Contemporary World Writers series, 2001), Ruvani Ranasinha, Hanif Kureishi (Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2002) and Hanif Kureishi by Susie Thomas (Palgrave, 2005). Kureishi's story, Weddings and Beheadings, was short-listed for the National Short Story Prize.
• Dr. Erica Longfellow was nominated by Cambridge University Press for the Times Higher Education prize for Young Academic Writer of the Year for her book Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (2005).
• Winsome Pinnock was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre to write a play for Cottesloe Theatre (2006).