PH grants at Durham University

I am writing to let you know about a fully funded PhD opportunity, in case you have any MA students or seniors interested in pursuing a project on Classical portraiture. I am currently working with Prof. Barbara Graziosi at Durham University in the UK, who has been awarded a large grant from the European Research Council for a project on the lives of ancient poets, in antiquity and beyond:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/livingpoetsproject/

This grant will provide funding for several postdocs and doctoral students, including a position for a student to work on portraits of ancient poets. S/he will be funded for three years (including fees, maintenance and travel), based in Durham, with the second year spent at Cornell University working with me under the aegis of the Cornell Classics department, with additional supervision from Prof. Annetta Alexandridis. At a time when funding is so hard to come by and graduate admissions are so competitive, I'm sure you will agree that this is a great opportunity. The project will bring together specialists in ancient biography and portraiture through several conferences, publications and an extensive website, and will give the student in question the chance to study in both the UK and the USA. It would be an ideal position for a student interested in ancient portraiture, the relationship between image and text, reception studies, and/or digital humanities.

If you know of any potential applicants, I would be very grateful if you could direct them to the Durham website. The deadline for applications is April 2012.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/livingpoetsproject/researchposts/

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.

With best wishes,

Verity Platt