Visiting Scholars Program
The Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University is currently accepting applications for research fellowships for 2024-2025.
The primary focus of the Library's collections are the lives and works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; included are original letters and manuscripts, books from the poets' library, first and successive editions of their poetry, as well as criticism and other secondary works and materials. In addition to the world's largest collection of material on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (over 3,400 original documents; plus an additional 8,000 letters of British and American figures and 27,000 books), the library has a growing collection of nineteenth-century women poets, over 1400 nineteenth-century British sermons and religious pamphlets, significant research materials in many areas of Victorian culture, and research holdings of Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George MacDonald, Joseph Milsand, J. H. and F. W. Newman, John Ruskin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and other Victorian writers. The Milsand Archive contains over 50,000 items, mostly in French, relating to Browning, the Milsand family, and the Anglo-French literary scene from the 1860s to 80s. Additional information about the Library's collections is also available in the online The Brownings: A Research Guide.
The Library offers one-month fellowships to visiting scholars pursuing doctoral, post-doctoral, or equivalent research. Fellows are expected to be in residence and to conduct research in the collections during the majority of the award period and are invited to produce a written summary of their experience working with the collections for the library's blog. The fellowship is primarily designed to provide access to the Library for scholars who reside outside the immediate area. The stipend for recipients within the continental United States is $1,500 (pre-tax) and for those from outside the U.S., $2,000 (pre-tax). Housing is provided.
To apply, candidates should send a formal letter of application that includes the preferred dates of study, a brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages) emphasizing the relationship of the Armstrong Browning Library collections to the proposed project, and a curriculum vitae to: Jennifer Borderud, Director, Armstrong Browning Library. Applicants should also arrange to have two confidential letters of recommendation sent by email to the Director.
Application documents and letters should be received by April 1, 2024. Awards will be announced for the following academic year (September through August) by April 30, 2024. For additional information, contact Christi Klempnauer by email or by phone at (254) 710-4968.
One Month Fellowship Recipients
2024-2025
- Huw Edwardes-Evans, Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Justin Gilbert, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Joseph Phelan, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Aubrey Plourde, University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Virginia
- Amanda Vernon, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Crystal Veronie, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2023-2024
- Susan Carlile, California State University, Long Beach, California
- Bysshe Coffey, Balliol College, University of Oxford
2022-2023
- Eric Bontempo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Laura McNeal, Independent Researcher, Coronado, California
- Kevin Morrison, Henan University, China
2021-2022
- Alexander Abichou, Durham University, United Kingdom
- Víctor García Ruiz, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
- Laura McNeal, Independent Researcher, Coronado, California
2020-2021
- Michael Meredith, Eton College, United Kingdom
- Fabienne Moine, Paris Est Créteil University, France
- Joshua Brorby, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- Jordan Welsh, University of Essex, United Kingdom
- Lindsey Chappell, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
- Kevin Morrison, University of Connecticut, Henan University, China
2019-2020
- Jerome Wynter, BMCC/Hostos, The City University of New York
- Jonathan White, University of Essex, United Kingdom
- Susan Carlile, California State University, Long Beach, California
- Michael John Tilby, Selwyn College, Cambridge, United Kingdom