Houghton Library

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.  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.  Each fellow is expected to be in residence at Houghton for at least four weeks during the period from July 2013 through June 2014 (these do not have to be consecutive weeks), and each fellow is expected to produce a written summary of your experience working with the collection. The stipend for each fellowship is $3,000. Other than the Pantzer Fellowship, applicants need not apply for specific fellowships, as the Selection Committee would determine which fellowship is best suited to your research.

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Fellowships to be Awarded in 2013-2014

  • 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
    Successful applicants must either be an ASECS member in good standing, or be willing to become a member, in order to receive this fellowship.
  • Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts
  • The Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship
  • 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
  • Joan Nordell Fellowship
  • Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography
    This fellowship is available to assist scholarly research in descriptive bibliography at Houghton Library and carries a stipend of $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.
  • Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship in Dance
  • John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre

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Applying for Fellowships

Applicants should write directly to The Fellowship Selection Committee, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, and provide the following material:

  • Application form;
  • 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 (these may be included with your application packet, or sent directly from your referees).

The deadline for submissions is January 11, 2013.  For further information call 617-495-2441.

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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.

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Houghton Library 2012–2013 Visiting Fellows

Victor Bedoya
Researcher, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sevilla
 “Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts in Houghton Library”
Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in American History

Sydney Bufkin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
“Walter Hines Page’s Publishing Career and the Turn-of-the-century Purpose Novel”
Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History

Frederic Clark
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
“Compiling Texts and Dividing Time: Bibliography and the Making of Historical Periodization, c. 1500-1750”
Joan Nordell Fellowhsip

Michael Patrick Cullinane
Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
“Remembering Theodore Roosevelt”
William Dearborn Fellowship in American History

Angela Dressen
Andrew W. Mellon Librarian, Villa I Tatti
“The stones of the wise – the marble pavement in Siena Cathedral between Neoplatonism and Apologetics”
Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts

Alice Eardley
Research Fellow in Early Modern Poetry, Reading University UK
“Hyder Edward Rollins and Early Modern Miscellanies”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Timothy Erwin
Professor of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas
“Houghton MS Hyde 31, Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage (1744), and Richard Savage’s Sir Thomas Overbury (1777)”
Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for the Study of Dr. Samuel Johnson and his Circle

Patricia Fumerton
Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara
“Moving Media, 1569-1789: Broadside Ballads, Cultural History, and ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor’”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Jane Fiegen Green
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
“The Boundary of Youth: Labor, Adulthood, and Citizenship in the Early United States, 1790-1850”
Joan Nordell Fellowship

Simon Horobin
Professor of English, University of Oxford UK
“Editing Chaucer: the Great Tradition?”
Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History

Zoe Jaques
Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge University UK
“Alice through the Ages”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Randall McLeod
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
“Aristotle’s losophia:  Printer’s copy for the Aldine princeps, 1495-98”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Domhnall Mitchell
Professor of 19th Century American Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
“Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Elizabeth Holland:  A Study of Dickinson’s Manuscript Punctuation”
Houghton Library Fellowship

Jonathan R. Olson
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Liverpool
“Humphrey Moseley, Bookseller and Literary Editor”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Carmen Font Paz
Associate Lecturer, Department of English, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Textual revision of seventeenth-century women’s prophecy in England: from Lady Eleanor Douglas to Katharine Evans”
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography

Julia Randel
Associate Professor of Music, Hope College
“Taking Flight with The Firebird: Ballet and the Formation of Stravinsky’s Musical Style”
Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship in Dance

Rachel Schneider
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
“The Scrappy Eighteenth-Century: Print Fragments, Publics, and the Book Trade”
W. Jackson Bate/Douglas W. Bryant, American Society for 18th-Century Studies (ASECS)

Tanya Sheehan
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
“Blacks and Whites:  Race and Photographic Humor”
Beatrice, Benjamin, and Richard Bader Fellowship in the Visual Arts of the Theatre

James Steichen
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, Princeton University
“George Balanchine in America:  Institutions, Economics and Aesthetics of the Nonprofit Performing Arts, 1933-54”
Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship in Dance

Brian Valencia
D.F.A. Candidate, Yale School of Drama
“American Performance Histories of 19th-Century Musical Local Dramas”
John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre

James Williams
Stipendiary Lecturer in English, Jesus and Brasenose Colleges, University of Oxford UK
“Getting to Know Mr. Lear:  Edward Lear’s Journals and Letters”
Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts

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