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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