The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the following recipients of visiting fellowships and travel grants for 2016-2017:

Fellowships

Rebecca Barr, National University of Ireland, John Bull and Irish Bull: representations of Irish masculinity in late eighteenth-century visual satire 

David Coast, Bath Spa University, The Voice of the People in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1789

Nicole Garret, Stony Brook University, Early Modern Niobes, ASECS-LWL Fellow

Rhianne Grieve, Australian National University, Conceptions of sociability in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British socialism

Sasha Handley, University of Manchester, Sleep in Early Modern England

Ian Haywood, University of Roehampton, Reforming caricature 1820-1840, Charles J. Cole Fellow

Yu Liu, Niagara County Community College, Changing Chinese Gardening Ideas into a Native English Tradition: The Horticultural Nationalism of Horace Walpole

Kendra Packham, Independent Scholar, The Interplay between Satiric Text and Image in Early Georgian Electoral Culture

Slaney Ross, Fordham University, Fictions of Surveillance in the Long Eighteenth Century

Mark Schoenfield, Vanderbilt University, The Palimpsest of Justice:  Law, Narrative, and the Romantic Self

Jacqueline Thalmann, University of Oxford, The Library of General John Guise (1682-1765)

Dale Townshend, University of Stirling, Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840

Hazel Tubman, University of Oxford, Self-Writing in an Information Age, 1700-1850, Joint LWL / BRBL Fellow

Nicholas Valvo, Northwestern University, Parish of Parnassus, Roger W. Eddy Fellow

Bethany Wong, University of California at Santa Barbara, Imagining Theater in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, George B. Cooper Fellow

Travel Grants

Andrea Coldwell, Coker College, Fictional Lives and Living Fictions

Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh, Assembling the Self: Collage and Identity, 1770-1900

Giovanni Iamartino, University of Milan, Sketching Standard English: Language Norms, Attitudes and Usage in 18th-c. British Prints

Chelsea Phillips, Villanova University, Celebrity Pregnancy, Satire, and Imaging-Making, 1791-92

Andrew Rudd, University of Exeter, Charity in Georgian Literature and Art

Anne Ruderman, Harvard University, Supplying the Slave Trade: How Europeans Met African Demand for European Manufactured Products, Commodities and Reexports 1670-1790

Katherine Thorpe, Princeton University, Figuring the Real, Realizing the Figure: The Nature of Personification in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Each year, the Lewis Walpole Library offers four-week visiting fellowships and two-week travel grants to support research in the Library's rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British). In addition, the Library offers an eight-week jointly funded LWL/Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellowship for work in both collections.  Applications for 2017-2018 will be accepted beginning Monday, November 7, 2016, and the deadline will be Monday, January 9, 2017. For details see: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/research/visiting_fellowships.html

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