The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the library's research collections. Some of our past Fellows and their topic of study are listed below. The main application and information page for MARBL Research Fellowships is available at: http://MARBL.library.emory.edu/Visiting/Fellowships/fellowships-marbl.html
Past Fellowship Recipients in Modern Literature
2007-2008
Dr. Heather Clark (Marlboro College), "The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes"
Dr. Theodore Leinwand (University of Maryland), "Reading Shakespeare: Ted Hughes"
Gail McConnell (Queen's University, Belfast), "Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, and Derek Mahon"
Dr. Maureen O'Connor (Moore Institute, NUI Galway), "The Life of Edna O'Brien"
2006-2007
Dr. Theodore Leinwand (University of Maryland), "Reading Shakespeare: Ted Hughes"
2005-2006
Diederik Oostdijk (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), James Dickey's hypermasculinity and World War I
Christopher Reid (independant scholar), editing the letters of Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
2004-2005
Prof. Joanny Moulin (University of Provence, France), biography of the poet Ted Hughes
2003-2004
Dr. Colleen McKenna (University College, London), "The Role of the Gallery Press in Modern Irish Publishing"
Dr. Shane Murphy (University of Aberdeen), "Intertextual Relations in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry"
2002-2003
Dr. Robin Peel (University of Plymouth), "Ted Hughes: Poetry and Politics"
2001-2002
Dr. Fran Brearton (Queen's University, Belfast), "Michael Longley: A Study"
Dr. Sinéad Mattar (Pembroke College, Cambridge), "'Our Proper Dark': Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Literary Revival"
2000-2001
Heather Clark (Lincoln College, Oxford), "The Belfast Group: A History"
Dr. Ruth Ling (independent scholar), "'How do you sew the night': Tension and Tact in Michael Longley's Recent Elegies"
1999-2000
Darragh Gallagher (Queen's University, Belfast), "The West of Ireland in the Poetry of Michael Longley"
Dr. Hugh Haughton (University of York), "Out of Place: The Poetry of Derek Mahon"
Past Fellowship Recipients in African American Studies
2007-2008
Dr. Ida Jones (Howard University), "Kelly Miller: A Life in Print and Practice"
Charles Leonard (Northwestern University), "Performing the Public Memory of Lynching: Atlanta and Chicago Respond to the Without Sanctuary Exhibit"
Dr. Craig Prentiss (Rockhurst University), "Religion and African American Theatre Before WWII"
Prof. James Smethurst (University of Massachusetts Amherst), "The Black Arts Movement in the South"
Erica Whittington (University of Texas at Austin) ,"From the Campus to the Globe: Internationalism and American Student Activism, 1945-1960"
2006-2007
Jay W. Driskell (Yale University), "Race Above Party: African American Voters, the NAACP, and Race Formation, 1887-1964"
Katarina Keane (University of Maryland), "African American Women's Activism in the U.S. South, 1960-1977"
Prof. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Ohio State University), "Radicals on the Road: Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism During the Viet Nam Era"
2005-2006
Daniel Hartley (University of Maryland, College Park), "James Weldon Johnson and Early Jazz Blues Aesthetics."
2004-2005
Lindsey Swindall, (University of MA, Amherst), "Intersections in Theatrics and Politics: The Case of Paul Robeson and Othello."
Jacqueline Castledine (Rutgers University), "The Fashion Was Politics: How Progressive Women Shaped Postwar America."
Eve Dunbar (University of Texas at Austin, and Vassar College), "The Crossroads of Race: Racial Passing and Profiling in Twentiety-Century American Literature and Culture."
Tammy Brown (Princeton University), "West Indian Immigrants to New York City and Identity Politics, 1920s-1970s."
LaShawn Harris (Howard University), "Beyond Respectability: The Remaking of Black Women's Activism, 1900-1950."
Soyica Diggs (Rutgers University), "From Repetition to Reproduction: African American Drama in the African American Literary Tradition."
2003-2004
Sarah Silkey (University of East Anglia, Norwich, England), "Evolving Morality in a Transatlantic Society."
2002-2003
Judith Weisenfeld (Vassar College), "Hollywood Be Thy Name."
Valerie Ann Kaalund (UNC Chapel Hill), "African American Writing and Moral Imagination."
Susanna Ashton (Clemson University), "Black Men as Book Men: Studies in W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and William Stanley Braithwaite"
Claire Nee Nelson (Yale University), Black left in the 1930s
2001-2002
Peniel E. Joseph (University of Rhode Island), Institute of the Black World
Jeffrey B. Leak (University North Carolina, Charlotte), Raymond Andrews
Erik S. McDuffie (New York University), "Long Journeys: Four Black Women and the Communist Party, USA, 1930-1956"
2000-2001
Watson W. Jennison, III (University of Virginia), Antebellum Georgia, and Early National Georgia
Yolanda Pierce (University of Kentucky).
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