Visiting Fellows and Travel Grant Recipients:2010-2011
Fellowships
Tim Cassedy, New York University, The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
David Flaherty, University of Virginia, The British Board of Trade, Visions of Empire, and the Aggressive Imperial Project for the North American Frontier, 1713-1783
Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania, Staged Conflicts: A History of English Theatre, 1641-1843
William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University, Reverend Doctor John Trusler (1735-1820): Sermons, Theology, and Politics
Heather Ladd, University of Toronto, Comic Representations of Booksellers and Authors in Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature, 1660-1830
Crystal Lake, Georgia Institute of Technology, Radical Things: Politics and Artifacts in British Literature, The Charles J. Cole Fellow
Peter Lindfield, University of St. Andrews, Reconstructions of the Past: Strawberry Hill, the Gothic, and the Furnishing of a National Aesthetic
Simon Macdonald, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, British Expatriates in Late Eighteenth-Century France
Temi-Tope Odumosu, King’s College, Cambridge, The ‘Image of Black’ through a Walpole Lens, The Roger W. Eddy Fellow
Charlotte Roberts, St. John’s College, Cambridge, Images of Historical Spectatorship, 1776-1837, The George B. Cooper Fellow
Eric Weichel, Queen’s University, ‘Most Horribly Done, and so Unfortunately Like’: Francophilia, Cross-Cultural Influences,and the Emergence of the Rococo in Early Eighteenth-Century British Visual and Material Culture
Alex Wetmore, Carleton University, The Mechanical in the Age of Sensibility: Technology, Sentimentalism, and Eighteenth-Century British Culture, The Lewis Walpole Library-ASECS Fellow
Amit Yahav, University of Haifa, Moments: Duration and the English Novel
Travel Grants
Rachel Brownstein, The Graduate Center, CUNY, James Gillray and Jane Austen
David Hayton, Queen’s University Belfast, Biography of Sir Lewis Namier
Yale Graduate Student Summer Fellows
Christian Burset, The Use of Indigenous Law and Legal Traditions Within the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Meredith Gamer, Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth Century