University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Fellowships

FYI Deadline April 1, 2008
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The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, in collaboration with the UB Libraries, is offering three fellowships for visiting scholars and graduate students working on their dissertations to use the University's outstanding Special Collections, which include, among others, The Poetry Collection, The University Archives, and the University's 20,000 volume Rare Book Collection. The fellowships provide stipends of up to $4,000 to cover the cost of fellows' travel to Buffalo & accommodation and expenses during the time of their stay. Both graduate students at an advanced stage of dissertation research and more senior scholars are invited to apply.

* James Joyce Fellowship: For research centered on the writings of James Joyce, Modernism, Joyce-related research, research on Sylvia Beach, Modernist publishers, Modernist genetic criticism, Joyce's literary circle, his literary colleagues, or his influences.
* David Gray Fellowship: For research centered on 20th and 21st century English language and poetry and poetics.
*Charles D. Abbott Fellowship: For research that would be enhanced by any of the books, manuscripts, or unique documents in the UB Libraries special collections, which includes materials from the Poetry Collection, University Archives,The Polish Collection, The Collections of the Music Library, and the History of Medicine Collection.