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Eighteenth Century Studies
Research Fellowships at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Applications are being accepted for Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants
for the 2008-2009 academic year.
The Lewis Walpole Library has reopened its doors to readers after eighteen
months of extensive building renovation. The new spaces include a splendid
reading room, state-of-the-art collection storage, and new staff and
conservation workspace. The Library's fellowship programs have resumed as
well, and applications are invited for the 2008-2009 year (July through June).
The Library, a department of the Yale University Library located in
Farmington, Connecticut, forty miles from New Haven, has significant
holdings of eighteenth-century prints, drawings, manuscripts, books, and
paintings. Fellows in residence also have access to additional materials
at Yale, including those at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
and the Yale Center for British Art.
The Library offers visiting fellowships, normally for four weeks, as well
as travel grants of lesser duration, to scholars engaged in post-doctoral
or equivalent research and to doctoral candidates at the dissertation
stage. In a typical year the Library awards up to a dozen fellowships and
travel grants.
The visiting fellowships, which include the cost of travel to and from
Farmington, provide a stipend of $1,800 per month in addition to
accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on site. The travel grants,
which vary in duration and amount, also include accommodation. Additional
information about the library, its collections, facilities, and programs,
may be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/.
To apply for a fellowship or travel grant, candidates should send a
curriculum vitae, including educational background, professional experience
and publications, and a brief outline of the research proposal (not to
exceed three pages) to: The Librarian, The Lewis Walpole Library, P.O. Box
1408, Farmington, CT 06034, USA. FAX (860) 677-6369. Two confidential
letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline,
which is January 18, 2008. Awards will be announced in March.
Additional information may be obtained by email: walpole@yale.edu.
Susan Odell Walker, Head of Public Services
The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 154 Main Street, Farmington,
CT 06032
phone: (860) 409-7096 ext. 235 or (860) 677-2140 fax: (860) 677-6369
susan.walker@yale.edu
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1408, Farmington, CT 06034