BEINECKE LIBRARY VISITING FELLOWS 2008-2009

In Alphabetical Order

Click here for List in Chronological Order (Arrival dates updated throughout the year; PDF file download)

Links to information about the fellows' academic backgrounds and research interests will be added as we receive permission to publish it; please see this information below as it is updated throughout the year.

                 
Name, Topic, Fellowship                          Affiliation                                _______

Anderson, Misty                                 University of Tennessee          
Enthusiastic Methods: Methodism, Satire, and the Modern Self
John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship (Early Modern Books & Manuscripts)

Battigelli, Anna                                     SUNY Plattsburgh                 
John Dryden, Catholicism, and English National Identity: Religion and Politics in Restoration Literary Culture
James M. Osborn Fellowship in English Literature and History (Early Books & Manuscripts)

Bernstein, Robin                              Harvard University               
Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in US Racial Formation, 1852-1930
Betsy Beinecke Shirley Fellowship (American Literature / Shirley Collection)

Bischof, Elizabeth               University of Southern Maine               
Maine/Modern: Georgetown, Maine, and American Modernism through a Collaborative Lens
Donald C. Gallup Fellowship (American Literature)

Bonner, Robert E.                             University of Connecticut                  
Slaveownians Abroad: Southern Confederates on the Global Stage
Jackson Brothers Fellowship (American Literature)     

Brasseaux, Carl A.                 University of Louisiana at Lafayette     
A Third Opinion: Charles Fauconnet and the Civil War in Francophone Louisiana
Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellowship (Western Americana Collection)

Paola Carlucci                  Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy      
Our Time (Tempo Presente) (1956-1968): An International Journal in Italy
JR Jackson Fellowship (Modern Books and Manuscripts)

Clifton, Nicole                                 Northern Illinois University      
A Prince Out of the North
John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship (Early Modern Books & Manuscripts)

Conti, Brooke           State University of New York at Brockport     
Anxious Acts: Religion and Autobiography in Early Modern England
James M. Osborn Fellowship (Early Books & Manuscripts)

Corn, Wanda (deferred from 2007)        Stamford University                 
Gertrude Stein in Four Acts
H.D Fellowship (American Literature)

Crislip, Andrew                                    University of Hawaii                          
A Critical Edition of Coptic Literary Papuri in the Beinecke Library
H.P Kraus Fellowship (Early Books & Manuscripts)

Dury, Richard            University of Bergamo, Italy                         
A New Edition of the Works of R.L. Stevenson
A. Barlett Giamatti Fellowship (Modern Books & Manuscripts)   

Foster, Brett                                           Wheaton College                              
The Rome Books of John Nichols: Apostasy and Confessional Espionage in Elizabethan England
Elizabethan Club Fellowship (Early Books & Manuscripts)

Foy, Anthony                                        Swarthmore College                   
Black Ideography: Autobiography, Ideology, Image
Donald C. Gallup Fellowship (American Literature / James Weldon Johnson)                                                

Franklin, Paul                           Independent scholar                
Trailblazing the Modern: Marcel Duchamp, Katherine Dreier, and the Societe Anonyme, Inc., Museum of Modern Art: 1920
John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship (American Literature/ Modern Books and Manuscripts)

Haywood, Ian                                    Roehampton University                        
A new scholarly edition of William James Linton, "Bob Thin"; of "The Poorhouse Fugitive" (1845)
Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship (18th Century British collections)

Hickson, Sally                                     University of Guelph                             
The Galleries of Beauties: Serialized Portraits of Women and Their Dissemination and Interpretation in Early Modern Europe
H.P Kraus Fellowship (Early Books & Manuscripts)

Jeanneret, Christine                             University of Geneva                      
The Osborn Organ Book: A Musical Testimony of Political and Religious Persecutions in 17th-Century England
Edith and Richard French Fellowship (Early Modern Books & Manuscripts)   

Lewis, Brian                                         McGill University                 
Queering Britain: George Ives and Sexual Inversion from Wilde to Wolfenden
A. Barlett Giamatti Fellowship (Modern Books & Manuscripts)

Malieckal, Bindu                       Saint Anselm College           
Spice Wars: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Early Modern Literature from India to England
John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship (Early Modern Books & Manuscripts)

McLaverty, James                                   Keele University                     
Faulkner's Presentation of Swift's Text
A. Barlett Giamatti Fellowship (Early Modern Books & Manuscripts)

Nowlin, Michael                                  University of Victoria                             
Literary Ambition and the African American Novel from Chesnutt to Ellison
Donald C. Gallup Fellowship (American Literature / James Weldon Johnson)

Peterson, Rai                      Ball State University                                       
Solita Solano: a Critical Biography
H.D. Fellowship (American Literature)

Powell, Manushag N.                             Purdue University             
The Performance of Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship (18th-Century British collections)

Preston, Claire                                  Cambridge University, UK                   
Retreats of Knowledge: English Literature and Scientific Investigation in the 17th Century
James M. Osborn Fellowship in English Literature and History (Early Modern Books & Manuscripts)

Spargo, R. Clifton                                Marquette University                
Death and Narrativity: The Emergence of the Modern Prose Elegy
John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship (American Literature)

Ruffini, Marco                                   Northwestern University                      
Vasari and his Readers: The Early Reception of the Lives of the Artists
H.P Kraus Fellowship (Early Books & Manuscripts)\

Street, Richard                       Independent scholar                                    
The Delano Grape Strike and Aftermath, circa 1968-1974
Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellowship (Western Americana Collection)

Sutton, Allison                University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign         
Ties that Bind: Langston Hughes, the Librarians and Libraries of the Harlem Renaissance
Donald C. Gallup Fellowship (American Literature / James Weldon Johnson)

Welch, Milton Lamont                    North Carolina State University            
Tortured Shadows: The Lynching Topos of US Modernist Poetry                                                
Donald C. Gallup Fellowship (American Literature / James Weldon Johnson)

Woolley, James                                      Lafayette College                              
The Canon and Chronology of Swift's Poems
Marjorie G. Wynne Fellowship in British Literature (Early Books & Manuscripts)

Worthen, John                      University of Nottingham            
The Correspondence of Frieda Lawrence
H.D. Fellowship (American Literature)

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