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Funding/Oct 18, 2017

Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, 2017 Competition

Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, 2017 Competition lead image

In July 2017, Rare Book School received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new RBS program, the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Building on the success of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, the Society has been formed for the purposes of advancing the study of texts, images and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship, and enriching humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. The Society’s members endeavor to integrate methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, to foster collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and to share their knowledge with broader publics.

Current RBS-Mellon Fellows have been invited to join the Society as Senior Fellows, responsible for the governance of the Society, for planning the Society’s annual meeting and other programs, and for recruiting and selecting Junior Fellows. The Mellon Foundation’s support will enable eight cohorts of Junior Fellows to join the Society over a period of ten years.

Each year, ten Junior Fellows are selected to join the Society through an open application process. After two years of membership in the Society, Junior Fellows in good standing become Senior Fellows. Program activities for Junior Fellows include:

  • two Rare Book School courses
  • seminars on critical bibliography
  • symposia on critical bibliography
  • bibliographical field school

The Society invites applications for the Junior Fellows program from early-career scholars and researchers from all fields, with preference given to first-time Rare Book School participants. We welcome applications from tenure track faculty, Ph.D. candidates, curators, librarians, those in postdoctoral research and teaching positions, and independent scholars. We ask that applicants be Ph.D. candidates or possess the terminal degree appropriate to their field (Ph.D., M.L.I.S., &c.).

Applicants must be available for an orientation at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on 23 and 24 May 2018. Applicants must commit to participating in two RBS courses before 31 December 2019.

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