University of Virginia Library

WINNERS OF THE BATTESTIN FELLOWSHIPS

These fellowships, inaugurated in 2013, are named in honor of Martin Battestin, emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia, and his wife Ruthe, a literary scholar and member of the Society's Council. The aim of the fellowships is to provide summer support for research in the UVa library by UVa graduate students who are working on bibliographical or textual projects.

2013

Nora Benedict

(Text and Image in the Borges Collection)

Natasha Mikles

(Illuminating the Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Descriptive Bibliography of UVA Manuscript 14259 and Its Place in the Historical Production of Tibetan Books)

Zachary Stone

(William Lambarde, A. L. Hench, and Early Modern Bibliography at the University of Virginia)

2014

Laura N. All

(The Secret History of Aster*sks and D-shes: Highlights from the G-rd-n Collection)


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James P. Ascher

(The Features of American and French Books in 1785: Toward a Historical Dictionary for Bibliographical Analysis)

Michael Pickard

(The Ledgers of William Strahan: A Selection)

Sarah Anne Storti

(The Prehistory of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Rossetti at Work, 1840–1850)

Kristina Warren

(Shape Notes: Printing, Lyrics, and Ritual in the U.S. South)

2015

Andrew Ferguson

(The Shoaf Collection: William S. Burroughs's Texts in Flux)

Christian F. Howard

(Reconstructing Faulkner's Universe: The Fictional Status of the Extra-Textual Material in the World of Yoknapatawpha)

Benjamin D. Lee

(The Manufacture of Books and the Making of Robert Frost)

Ethan C. Reed

(The Novels of John Dos Passos in the 1930s: Physical Features and Literary Reception)