The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the recipients of fellowship and travel grant awards for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Visiting Fellows: 2011 – 2012

Jonathan Conlin, University of Southampton, and Laurent Turcot, Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, “Tales of Two Cities: An English Edition of Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s Parallèle de Paris et de Londres (c.1780).”

Paul B. Courtright, Emory University, “Nabobs and Babus: Satire and Caricature in Early British India.”

Sarah Easterby-Smith, European University Institute, Florence, “Remapping Enlightenment: Botany in Cultural and Global Context, c.1700 - c . 1815.”

Robert Howell Griffiths, Université de Savoie, “The Concept and Practice of ‘Moderation’ in England from 1660 to 1800.”

The Lewis Walpole Library-ASECS Fellowship

David Hancock, University of Michigan, “The Cosmopolite: A Biography of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.”

The George B. Cooper Fellowship

John Havard, University of Chicago, “Literature, Party, and Political Systems in Britain, 1760-1830.”

Alex Hernandez, UCLA, “‘The Best of All Possible Worlds’: Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment.”

The Charles J. Cole Fellowship

Geoffrey Kemp, University of Auckland, “Liberty of the Press from Milton to Hume…and Walpole.”

Mary Katherine Matalon, University of Texas at Austin, “A Social and Cultural History of Connoisseurs in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World.”

Theresa H. Nguyen, University of Wisconsin, “Poetic Soundscapes: Noise in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.”

The Roger W. Eddy Fellowship

Allison M. Stagg, University College London, “The Art of Wit: Political Caricature in the United States, 1780-1830.”

Ingrid H. Tague, University of Denver, “Pets and Pet Keeping in Eighteenth-Century England.”

Travel Grants

Brian Cowan, McGill University, “Henry Sacheverell and Political Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”

Mark Crosby, Queen’s University, Belfast, “The Gothic Apprentice: William Blake and the Engraving Studio of James Basire.”

Nick Grindle, University College London, “Mobility and Marginality in George Morland’s Representation of Inns and Alehouses.”

Adam Komisaruk, West Virginia University, “Sexuality and the Public Sphere:  The Bon Ton Magazine, 1791-96.”

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