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The Ruskin Library and Research Centre
Profile
Research Degrees Enquiries
MPhil/PhD Ruskin Centre Administrator
MA in Nineteenth-Century Literary Research tel: +44 (0)1524 510818
(by Research) fax: +44 (0)1524 510857
e-mail: ruskin.library@lancaster.ac.uk
Number of Postgraduate Students
6 Website
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ruskin
Director
Professor Stephen Wildman Location
Institute for Advanced Studies
Associate Director
Dr Andrew Tate
The Ruskin Library and Research Centre actively promotes research on
John Ruskin and his circle by carrying out specific research projects The recently completed reseach project on Ruskin’s Venetian
which result in publications and/or exhibitions; by holding a weekly Notebooks, focusing on material relating to The Stones of
research seminar and an annual public lecture; and by organising
Venice, is now available online from our website.
conferences and colloquia. The Centre leads the research effort
associated with the exploitation of the collections housed in the Ruskin
Library and Brantwood, including the editing of unpublished material.
The Centre has wide associations with other academic centres,
museums and galleries in Britain and overseas.
All postgraduate students are presented with a free copy of the CD-
Rom of the Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin.
RESEARCH DEGREES
Applications are invited for the degrees of MPhil and PhD in any
area of study relating to John Ruskin and his circle. In addition to
individual supervision, you will benefit from the opportunity to
attend and present your work to the weekly Ruskin Seminar and
publish in our in-house journal ‘The Ruskin Review and Bulletin’.
The Ruskin Library
MPhil/PhD
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its The Ruskin Library offers students and other users an
equivalent and a viable research proposal. unparalleled collection in an exceptional building. Designed
Assessment: Original research and thesis.
by the architect Sir Richard MacCormac and opened in 1998,
IELTS: 6.5
it houses the largest single holding of material relating to John
Funding: AHRC - see also page 196.
Ruskin (1819-1900) and his world. Among more than 4000
Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/ruskin
manuscripts are 29 volumes of his diary notebooks, as well as
many hundreds of letters, mostly still unpublished.
MA in Ninteenth-Century Literary Research
(by Research)
Ruskin’s extraordinary range of interests – from art, architecture
Please see entry under English and Creative Writing.
and landscape to geology, botany and economics – offers a
wealth of research opportunities. Along with some 400 books
RESEARCH FACILITIES
from Ruskin’s library is a comprehensive collection of his
As one of our postgraduate students, you will have privileged
writings in all significant editions in English, and many in other
access to the Ruskin Library and will be able to carry out research
languages. Books about Ruskin run from early commentaries
using a variety of materials from the collection.
in the 1850s to the latest academic publications, allowing
STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS
students the rare facility of easy cross-reference.
Prof Stephen Wildman: John Ruskin as an artist; British Ruskin’s output as an artist is represented by over 1000 drawings
watercolours of the 18
th
and 19
th
centuries, especially David Cox; and watercolours, all of which connect with his published work
British art and design 1840s to 1890s, especially the Pre-Raphaelites. and his daily life in England and abroad; there is also a substantial
collection of Daguerreotypes and other historic photographs.
Dr Andrew Tate: Ruskin and religious aesthetics; nineteenth-
century literature and theology; Ruskin and France.
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