Visiting Scholars Program
Armstrong Browning Library
Baylor University
Waco, TX
Applications due: 1 April 2024
The Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University is currently accepting applications for research fellowships for 2024-2025.
While the library is primarily known for the world's largest collection of material on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, we also a robust center for materials related to a variety of Victorian issues, genres, and authors. Some of our other collections include nineteenth-century women poets, pamphlets and tracts, minor English poets, Victorian letters and manuscripts collections, Victorian photographs, a Julia Margaret Cameron collection, and children’s literature.
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.