Visiting Fellowships

Overview

Houghton Library is the principal rare book and manuscript library of Harvard College. The library's holdings are particularly strong in the following areas: European, English, American, and South American literature, including the country's pre-eminent collection of American literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion; history of science; music; printing and graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows will also have access to collections in Widener Library as well as to other libraries at the University.

Short-Term Fellowships to be Awarded in 2008-2009

Thirteen short-term fellowships are available to assist scholars who must travel to work with library collections.  Each fellow is expected to be in residence at Houghton for at least one month during the period from July 2008 through June 2009. The stipend for each fellowship is $3,000. See Applying for Short- and Long-Term Fellowships.

  • Beatrice, Benjamin, and Richard Bader Fellowship in the Visual Arts of the Theatre
    W. Jackson Bate/ Douglas W. Bryant, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
    (ASECS) Fellowship*
  • Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts
  • The Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Fellowship for the Study of Emerson
    and his Circle
  • Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts
  • Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History
  • Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for the Study of Dr. Samuel Johnson and his Circle
  • Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Literary Manuscripts
  • Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Theatre History
  • Joan Nordell Fellowship
  • Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography
  • Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship in Dance
  • John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre

*An ASECS fellowship holder must:

  1. Be a member in good standing of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award.
  2. Be an ABD graduate student or a post-doctoral, holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree at the time of the application.

Long-Term Fellowships to be Awarded in 2008-2009

This fellowship is available to assist scholarly research in descriptive bibliography at Houghton Library.  Fellowships are $3,000 per month up to twelve months (maximum $36,000). Fellows are expected to be in residence at Houghton Library for the duration of the fellowship. See Applying for Short- and Long-Term Fellowships.

  • Katherine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Description Bibliography

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

Houghton Library also participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Please visit the consortium's Web site for further information and to apply.

Applying for Short- and Long-Term Fellowships

Preference is given to scholars whose research is closely based on materials in Houghton collections (especially when those materials are unique); fellowships are normally not granted to scholars who live within commuting distance of the library. Applicants should write directly to The Fellowship Selection Committee, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, and provide the following materials:    

  • a statement of not more than three pages describing the research project and the importance of the library's collections to the applicant's work;
  • a current curriculum vitae; and
  • two letters of recommendation.

The deadline for submissions is January 18, 2008.

Houghton Library 2008–2009 Visiting Fellows

Pablo Alvarez
Curator of Rare Books, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester; History of the Book Instructor, Department of History, University of Rochester
“The Teaching of Hell in Sixteenth-Century Venice: The Evidence from Book Illustration and Mnemonic Treatises”
Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts

Jonathan Arnold
Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
“Book History Analysis of Theodore Roosevelt’s Published Works”
Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History

Noelle Baker (joint application with Sandra Petrulionis)
Independent Scholar
“The Almanack of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Edition”
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Fellowship for the Study of Emerson and his Circle

Lisa Berglund
Associate Chair, English Department, SUNY Buffalo State College
“College Editions of the Principal Works of Hester Lynch Piozzi”
Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for the Study of Dr. Samuel Johnson and his Circle

Mark Bland
Senior Lecturer in English, De Montfort University, UK
“Unresolved STC Problems”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Peter Collister
Independent Scholar
“Henry James’s Autobiographical Writings”
Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Literary Manuscripts

Tracy Davis
President, American Society for Theatre Research, Northwestern University
“Nineteenth-Century British Repertoire”
Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Theatre History

Robert Júlio Decker
Ph.D. Candidate, Anglo-American History, University of Leeds, UK
“The Immigration Restriction League and the Political Regulation of Immigration, 1894-1924”
Joan Nordell Fellowship

Carolyn Eastman
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
“Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”
W. Jackson Bate/Douglas W. Bryant, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship (ASECS)

Michael Eisenberg
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Keyboard Seconda Pratica in the Engraved Toccatas of Girolamo Frescobaldi”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Kathryn Gucer
Visiting Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Northwestern University
“Revolution across the Channel: Parliament and Parlement in 17th-Century England and France”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Heather Helinsky
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy, University of Arizona
“In Perfect Harmony: Stage Compositions of Theodore Komisarjevsky”
Beatrice, Benjamin, and Richard Bader Fellowship in the Visual Arts of the Theatre

Daniela Macchione
Research Consultant, University of Chicago, Department of Music
“OperaCat Opera for Sale”
John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre

Sylvie L. Merian
Independent Scholar
“A Codicological Study of Armenian Manuscripts”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Paola Modesti
Lecturer, Venice International University; Research Fellow, Universitario di Architettura in Venice
“Antonio Visentini’s drawings in the Houghton Library”
Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts

Matthew Moore
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College
“Charles Sanders Peirce’s Writings on the Philosophy of Mathematics”
Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts

Catherine Parisian
Independent Scholar
“A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Sandra Petrulionis (joint application with Noelle Baker)
Professor of English and American Studies, Penn State University
“The Almanack of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Edition”
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Fellowship for the Study of Emerson and his Circle

Nicholas Roe
Professor of English Literature, School of English, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
“John Keats in the papers of Amy Lowell and other Harvard Keatsians”
Joan Nordell Fellowship

Fred Schurink
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of English, Newcastle University
“Translation, Reading and War in Tudor England: Gabriel Harvey’s Marginalia in the Houghton Library”
Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship

Christina Smylitopoulos
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University
“A Nabob’s Progress: Graphic Satire, The Grand Master and British Excess, 1770-1830”
Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship

Janet Spurgeon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Aesthetics, Hybridity and Idealist Painting in the Late Nineteenth-Century Japan”
Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship

Geoffrey S. Taylor
Research Scholar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints; Founder-Collaborator, Octavo Research
“Encountering Serlio: Il terzo libro and Architectural Drawing Practices”
Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts

Robert Torre
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Ritual, Myth, and Performance in Naples, 1707-1737”
John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre

Ann Walsh
Independent Scholar
“Robert Lowell’s Art of Rewriting: Revision, Translation, Adaptation”
Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship

 

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