> The H.I. UB Libraries Special Collections Fellowships

FELLOWSHIPS

The UB 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 UB Libraries' 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 $4000 to cover the cost of fellows' travel to Buffalo and accommodation and expenses during the time of their stay. In addition to the stipend, fellows will receive library and parking privileges at UB and are invited to participate in any Humanities Institute events that occur during the time of their visit. Fellows are expected to give one public lecture on their research. The timing and duration of the fellows' residence in Buffalo are flexible, though we would anticipate a minimum stay of 2 weeks. Both graduate students at an advanced stage of dissertation research and more senior scholars are invited to apply.

• The James Joyce Fellowship:   For scholars and graduate students whose research is 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.

• The David Gray Fellowship:  For scholars and graduate students whose research is centered on 20th and 21st century English language poetry and poetics. (This fellowship must be held during the academic year, not during the summer).

• The Charles D. Abbott Fellowship:   For scholars and graduate students whose research would be enhanced by any of the books, manuscripts or unique documents in the UB Libraries special collections, which include materials from The Poetry Collection, University Archives, The Polish Collection, The Collections of the Music library, and The History of Medicine Collection. Brief introductions to some of the more notable collection in the UB libraries are below.

Applicants may apply for only one fellowship per academic year.

TO APPLY

The deadline for applications is April 1. Applications must include the following:

1. Cover letter.
2. Brief two to three page, single-spaced research proposal, including length and approximate timing of proposed visit.
3. Current CV, which should indicate in detail previous and upcoming research support (grants, fellowships, leaves, etc.).
4. Letter of support from department chair or dissertation director.

Applicants must submit six copies of all application materials in a single envelope to:

Michele R. Bewley

Assistant Director

Humanities Institute

University at Buffalo

810 Clemens Hall

Buffalo, NY 14260       (716) 645-2711      email:  ub-humanities-institute@buffalo.edu

ABOUT THE COLLECTIONS

The Poetry Collection

Devoted to 20th century poetry in English and English translation, The Poetry Collection contains over 100,000 first edition volumes by poets writing in English, chapbooks, broadsides, 5,000 runs of little literary magazines, as well as recordings, poets' notebooks, letters, and other manuscripts. Of particular note are extensive manuscript holdings of Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Duncan, Helen Adam, William Carlos Williams, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, John Logan, John Montague and others. The Poetry Collection also holds the archives of The Jargon Society, Alcherina, The Wormwood Review, Kayak, Mica, The Lost and Found Times, White Pine Press, Earth's Daughters and the archives of The Hallwalls and CEPA galleries, among many, many others. The Poetry Collection also holds one of the world's premier collections of James Joyce manuscripts. It contains manuscripts, family portraits, Joyce's private library and thousands of pages of corrected manuscripts and dozens of notebooks used in Joyce's composition of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

For more information visit The Poetry Collection or contact Michael Basinski.

The University Archives

The University Archives is a rich and varied special collection. Among the many collections housed in The University at Buffalo Archives are many collections of papers of UB humanities professors. The papers of faculty from Philosophy are particularly well represented. Among the papers available are The Marvin Farber papers on philosophy and phenomenology, ca. 1920s-1980s; The Mitchell Franklin papers, 1922-1986; The Dale Riepe papers, 1937-1980; The Peter H. Hare papers, 1968-1999 and The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: papers of Peter Hare (ed.), 1971-2002; The George F. Hourani Papers, 1927-1984; The William T. Parry papers, 1919-1984; and The Thomas D. Perry Papers, 1957-1982. Other notable collections include: The Leslie A. Fiedler Papers, 1951-1969; The Milton Plesur papers, 1970-1985 and the papers of Charles David Abbott, 1930-1961. Among the unique Collections relating to Buffalo and Western New York Architecture with The University Archives are Frank Lloyd Wright - Darwin Martin House and Graycliff collections. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, architectural drawings related to the design, construction, and use of WNY structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Of additional interest to the work of Wright are the Jaroslav Joseph Polivka papers concerning Frank Lloyd Wright, 1945-1959. The University Archives also house the Buffalo Social History Project and American Dream Series collections, 1976-1978 and The Sound of Swing from 1982-1985 and Jazz Singer from 1994 to 1995, which are audio recordings of UB professor Robert Rossberg's radio programs.

For more information visit The University Archives or contact lib-archieves@buffalo.edu.

The Rare Books Collection

The University at Buffalo's Rare Book Collection houses more than 20,000 titles. The foundation of this Collection rests upon the Library of Thomas B. Lockwood.  The Rare Book Collection also includes The George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection, comprised of well over 25,000 pulp-fiction books and magazines, and The Goldsman Collection of Literature for Boys, which contains more than 500 books and magazines from the period 1890-1920. Additional rare book collections include The Julian Park Collection, The Gran Colombia Collection, The Joseph Brennan Collection and The Frank A. Hartman Ornithology Collection.

For more information contact Michael Basinski or lib-archieves@buffalo.edu.

The Music Library

Among the collections housed in the Music Library are archives of materials related to 20th-century composers Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Allen Sapp, and Leo Smit, as well as other UB faculty members, including Jan Williams and Yvar Mikhashoff. Other special collections of interest include a large collection of manuscripts and first editions of works by Fernando Päer (1771-1839) and a collection of more than three hundred holographs of composer Ferdinand Praeger (1815-1891).

For more information visit the special collections and archives in the UB Music Library or contact musique@buffalo.edu.