About Rare Book School Calendar for Applicants to the 2012–13 RBS-UVA Fellowship Program Rare Book School (RBS), located in Alderman Library, is an affiliated foundation of the University 15 February 2012 of Virginia. Directed by University Professor and Open House for UVA Faculty 11:30 am−2:30 pm Professor of English, Michael F. Suarez, S.J., RBS engages in advocacy, education, and outreach to pro- 17 February 2012 mote the study, care, and uses of written, printed, Open House for UVA Students 3−5 pm and born-digital materials. Every year, RBS offers continuing education opportunities for students 15 March 2012 from all disciplines and skill levels to study with Information Session 4:30−6 pm leading scholars and professionals in the fields of bibliography, librarianship, book history, 23 March 2012 manuscript studies, and the digital humanities. Application Deadline. Applications due by 5 pm

Accepted applicants will attend a week-long course RBS-UVA Fellowship Program Activities at RBS in 2012, and will submit a final project to RBS for publication to its website by 12 April 2013. Undergraduate and graduate students attend seminars at RBS that directly inform year-long projects (viz., a Distinguished Major’s thesis, a Learn More scholarly article, a dissertation chapter, a con- ference paper, a public exhibit) that they are under- To view a 2012 summer course schedule, please visit taking. Once accepted to the program, Fellows: www.rarebookschool.org

* prepare readings for the RBS course to which they For more details about the RBS-UVA Fellowship have been accepted; Program, see www.rarebookschool.org/fellowships * attend an RBS course offered during 2012 (most or contact RBS Program Director Amanda Nelsen RBS courses are offered at UVA in June and July). at [email protected]

During their year in the program, Fellows and their UVA faculty sponsors will continue to participate in “T he teaching materials drawn from the RBS and the program through: UVA special collections were better than any I * visits to RBS and consultation with RBS faculty had ever seen in bibliographic seminars given at and staff during the conduct of their research; Harvard or Princeton. What I didn’t expect was * the submission of final projects (due by 12 April […] a sense of camaraderie among us that lasted 2013) for the Fellows’ interactive module on the long after the courses ended.” RBS website; Donna Sy The Rare Book School * the program’s annual forum and awards luncheon; ph.d. candidate & rbs alumna * the completion of a year-end evaluation of the department of history Fellowship Program at program. princeton university the University of Virginia hanks to a generous grant made possible 2011–12 RBS-UVA Fellows Eligibility by The Jefferson Trust, an initiative of T In 2011, RBS awarded seven fellowship to two Candidates apply to the program during the spring the UVA Alumni Association, Rare Book undergraduate and five graduate students at the semester. To be eligible for the program, candidates School (RBS) invites students at the Uni- University. Their projects include: must gain admission to an RBS course, and they versity of Virginia to apply for a fellowship must be enrolled at UVA through the spring of the * a thesis examining UVA’s collection of Borges following academic year (e.g., a third-year UVA designed to enhance UVA student research manuscripts; undergraduate applying in March 2012 would employing special collections, including * a papermaking and printmaking project explor- attend a course at RBS in the summer of 2012, complete a project during the semesters spanning written, printed, and born-digital materials. ing gardens and landscapes, and responding to evidence in gardening books held by UVA Special fall 2012 and spring 2013, and submit a final The RBS-UVA Fellowship Program Collections; project in April 2013). Students cannot apply to the program during the same academic year in provides UVA undergraduate and graduate an electronic edition, in XML, of the marginalia * which they are graduating. students with scholarships to attend RBS’s from the B-text of the Vision of Piers Plowman;

celebrated courses on the history of books * a dissertation chapter researching seventeenth- and printing—classes that are not available century typography and printing in Italy in con- Financial Support junction with Propaganda Fide and its Polyglot through UVA course offerings. The program Press (one of the first presses in Europe capable Fellows attend a course at RBS for free (tuition introduces Fellows and their faculty spon- of printing works in Arabic); is currently $1,095 or $1,195, depending on the course) and receive a $250 stipend. In addition, sors to visiting peers and professionals in a * a critical edition of 15 poems written by the C17 the program will award a $500 prize to the most dynamic environment that fosters hands-on English poet Katherine Philips; distinguished project from each cohort. collaborative research and interdisciplin- * an article-length paper on the printing and circu- lation history of the literature surrounding New ary learning. The RBS-UVA Program not England’s 1721 smallpox inoculation controversy; Application Process only provides Fellows with new tools and * a dissertation chapter on the N-Town manuscript, methods for engaging with primary source an English cycle of scriptural (or “mystery”) plays Applications are due no later than 23 March 2012. materials, it also publishes the scholarship dating from the latter half of the fifteenth century. To apply to the program, students must:

of its participants (via its highly visited web- “Ev eryone in my course and in the July 4 session * submit a proposal to attend an RBS course offered site), thereby providing other students with in general was very friendly, open, supportive, in 2012 that will substantially inform a year-long project (viz., a Distinguished Major’s thesis, an and willing to make connections across disci- aspirational models of scholarly work and article, a dissertation chapter, a conference paper, plines, age groups, and geographical differences. intellectual achievement. an exhibition); It’s a wonderful community consciously centered * secure a letter of recommendation from a UVA “Nowhere else does an undergraduate have the around the love and defense of books—what could faculty member who has agreed to sponsor the chance to interact as a fellow student—as an equal— be better?” project; and Christine Schott with people who can teach him or her so much.” complete a standard application to RBS, turning 2011–12 rbs-uva fellow * Theresa Goodman doctoral candidate it in along with the proposal and letter of clas 2012 department of english recommendation, plus a c.v.