*RHUL Call for Applications: PhD programme* The Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London, invites PhD applications for a range of funding opportunities, including AHRC funded scholarships, starting in academic year 2018-2019. The department’s research focuses on the analysis and practice of film, television, digital media and contemporary art, with a specific focus on digital media theory and aesthetics, Hollywood, Asian and European cinemas, screen narrative, television history and technology, the representation of class, ethnicity and gender, cultures of celebrity, digital image, visualisation, data-based cultures and modernist art practices, as well as the production of dramas, documentaries, web-based projects and installations. Students are welcome to apply with any topic. The department has numerous experienced supervisors with a range of expertise. This year, we are particularly interested in applications that address the following topics: - *Subjectivity and technology*, including the changing notions of personhood with the rise of social media, data extractionism, datafied self, profiling, and machine learning; data and selfhood in ethico-aesthetic dimensions of computation as well as socio-political practices of network ecologies. Please contact Dr Olga Goriunova at olga.goriunova@rhul.ac.uk - *Television history,* the exploration of lost, forgotten and critically neglected works of television drama and documentary; the history of canon formation in television studies and the relationship between television history, research and the archive (and related archival issues such as digital availability and access).Please contact Professor John Hill at john.hill@rhul.ac.uk - *World cinema and exoticism.* Encounters with cultural difference in transnational and World Cinema, in particular, contemporary discourses on the exotic and exoticism, as well as the representation of migration and diaspora. Please contact Professor Daniela Berghahn at daniela.berghahn@rhul.ac.uk <Daniela.berghahn@rhul.ac.uk> Submission deadline: *5th of January*. Please contact Director of Graduate Research Dr Olga Goriunova olga.goriunova@rhul.ac.uk ahead of the deadline to discuss your application. For more information, please see: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mediaarts/prospectivestudents/postgraduatere... Reader in Digital Culture Director of Graduate Research Media Arts Royal Holloway University of London Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX