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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 honorary 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. Each
award carries a stipend of $3500.

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 Asterisks and Dashes: Highlights from the Gordon
Collection."

James P. Ascher, "The Features of American and French Books in 1785: Toward a Histori-
cal 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 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."

2016

Jarek Paul Ervin, "Music Criticism, Material Culture, and the Case of New York Rock."

Samuel Vincent Lemley, "The Antiquarian Origins of the Scholarly Facsimile."

Loreto Romero Martinez Eiroa, "Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Early Decades of the Habsburg Monarchy and Empire."

2017

Evan G. Cheney, "Diplomatic Character and the Papers of Sir Henry Unton."

Andrew Jacob Hill, "Mapping the Cult of Saint Margaret with French Medieval Books of Hours."

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Emelye M. Keyser, "Political History or Historical Politics? Representations of George Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum historia, 1581–1766."

Peter N. Miller, "Forms Cut in Time: Ezra Pound's Cantos in the Age of Recorded Sound."

2018

Neal D. Curtis, "Researching Surviving Shelf-Marks from the Original Rotunda Library."

Asher Morse, "Charles E. Feinberg, Walt Whitman, and the Sociology of Book
Collecting."

Dylan W. Spivey, "Articulating the Baroque in Eighteenth-Century British Architectural
Books."

Daniel J. Zimmerman, "A Critical Edition of John Florio's Translation of Montaigne's
'Of Physiognomy.'"