2025-2026 Award Recipients

Fellowships

Maria Teresa Bruno, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples), A new edition of Pensées philosophiques

Allison Cardon, Hamilton College, Influential (Mis)reading of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, ASECS-LWL Fellow

Julia Carlson, University of Cincinnati, Representation and Accessibility in Romantic-Era Print Culture

Taryn Duffy, University of Missouri, Agents of Empire: Media, Monarchy, and Museums

Guy Hansen, National Library of Australia, Views of the colonies: British graphic satire in the age of Empire

Emma McEvoy, University of Westminster, Touring Britain: Domestic Travel Journals and Amateur Literary Culture 1785-1825, Charles J. Cole Fellow

Rose Mckean, University of York, ‘Objections of Terror’: Replication and Adaptation in Gothic chapbooks 1765-1830

Anna Myers, University of Edinburgh, ‘Tongues in trees’: Wood and Cultural Identity in Britain from 1650 to 1850

Hannah Straw, University of Warwick, ‘I am Grammont Mad’: Horace Walpole, the Count de Grammont, and the Making of the Restoration

Kate Tunstall, University of Oxford, Julie de Lespinasse and Marie Du Deffand: women, posterity and the literary bequest

Charles Upchurch, Florida State University, ‘Called it Macaroni’: A British Queer History of the Revolutionary Era, Joseph Peter Spang III Fellow

Benjamin Weisgall, Columbia University, Patterns, Books, and the Vernacularization of Architecture in Imperial Britain, 1745-1801, George B. Cooper Fellow

Eliza Alexander Wilcox, University of Tennessee, Between Femmes: A Literary Prehistory of Femme Embodiment

Georgina Wilson, University of York, Literary Criticism and the Craft of Books, Roger W. Eddy Fellow

Edward Yang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ‘To Innovate, to Instruct, and to Entertain’: Horace Walpole, and Imagining the English Reader

Travel Grants

Rosalind Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Touching the Elements:  short cultural history of touch in relation to each of the four elements (earth, air, fire and water) in the long eighteenth century.

Sarah Bliss, Florida State University, Transgressive Forms: Manuscript and Print in Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother

Jonathan Conlin, University of Southampton, D’Eon: A Self Made Woman

Julie Gammon, University of Southampton, Dressing Up: Fashion and Nightlife in the Eighteenth-Century Town

Jennifer Golightly, Colorado College, Gendered Licentiousness: Print Culture, Sexual Morality, and the Camp at Coxheath

Maria Hayward, University of Southampton, ‘Dressing Up: Fashion and Nightlife in the Eighteenth-Century Town’

Adam Kozaczka, Texas A&M International University, Pinkerton’s Racialism and the Law-Literature-Architecture Axis in Walpole and Scott

Una McIlvenna, Australian National University, ‘Singing the News: Ballads as News Media in Europe and Australia, 1550-1920’

Catherine Packham, University of Sussex, Persuasions and Prejudices: The Culture of Eloquence and Oratory, 1750-1830

Kate Retford, Birkbeck, University of London, Cutting and Pasting: Interacting with Print in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1840

Virlana Shchuka, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Writing Childbirth Complications and Postnatal Health Trauma, 1700-1850

Brendan Tam, University of Warwick, ‘Pledged by Habit, Connection or Personal Honour’? Friendship and Politics in the late Hanoverian Period: 1760-1837