Star.ac.uk
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STAR Project home
Description
We are delighted to announce that the STAR (Scotland's Transatlantic Relations) Project has been awarded one year’s continuation funding by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, which follows the Trust’s initial three-year grant. Convened by Professor Susan Manning (University of Edinburgh), STAR’s mission is to provide a focus for international circumatlantic research with a Scottish dimension. Through a combination of seminars, conferences, publication ventures, and other collaborations, it fosters interchange and discussion; it also makes relevant information and resources available to a wider audience via this website.
In the three years since its inception, the STAR group has expanded from a small body of interested scholars into a recognised international network. STAR members have initiated the new Literature and Transatlanticism, MSc at the University of Edinburgh as well as the series Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literature (forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press). Regular sessions of the STAR Seminar are continuing to provide a rich source of interdisciplinary exchange for colleagues from across the Scottish universities and beyond. Further, we are in the process of building up the STAR Archive’s unique online collection of resources, including digitised texts.
The coming year will be a critical period for the future of STAR, in which we develop our plans for continued growth and expansion and, hopefully, establish STAR on a more permanent basis. We are actively pursuing closer collaborations with our North American partners, particularly in the form of joint research projects and exchange programmes with American scholars and institutions.
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