The S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship

for research relating to H.P. Lovecraft,

his associates, and literary heirs

The John Hay Library at Brown University, home to the largest collection of H. P. Lovecraft materials in the world, is pleased to offer an annual fellowship for research relating to H. P. Lovecraft, his associates, and literary heirs. The S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship, established by The Aeroflex Foundation and Hippocampus Press, is intended to promote scholarly research using the world renowned resources on H. P. Lovecraft at the John Hay Library. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of $2,500 for up to two months of research at the library. The S. T. Joshi Fellowship is open to individuals engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent research. Applicants who do not reside in the U. S. must either indicate their citizenship or already hold the J-1 visa or equivalent documents that will allow them to accept the stipend.

Requirements

Cover letter

Curriculum vitae

Project proposal (not to exceed 2,500 words) Abstract Project description Statement of research significance Schedule of Lovecraft and associated collections to be consulted

Two letters of reference from individuals familiar with the applicant's scholarship

Submission

Applications must be formatted as a single-PDF document following the order described under requirements above.

Letters of reference should be submitted electronically by the recommender.

Application materials should be sent to Heather Cole, Curator, Literary & Popular Culture Collections

Timeline

Application deadline: March 13, 2020

Notification date: April 27, 2020

Terms of appointment

Residence at the John Hay Library to be completed by June 30, 2021.

Presentation of a public lecture sponsored by the Brown University Library on the topic of the Fellow's research.

Adherence to the rules and procedures relating to access and use of John Hay materials.

Fellows will be selected by a committee of librarians and scholars familiar with the John Hay Library's holdings of Lovecraft materials, and with current Lovecraft scholarship. The committee will consider the following criteria when making the selection: strength of the applicant's credentials; historiographical significance of the project; originality and sophistication of the approach; feasibility of the research objectives; and the relevance of the project to the holdings of the John Hay Library.

The John Hay Library

Opened in 1911, the John Hay Library is the largest and most diverse special collections library in Rhode Island. Housing Brown University Library's collection of approximately 400,000 books, some five million manuscripts, as well as hundreds of thousands of broadsides, maps, prints, photographs, and pieces of sheet music, the John Hay Library, in addition to its extensive Lovecraft Collection, is especially strong in a number of areas, including American poetry and plays, military history, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Rhode Island history, the history of science and medicine, the history of magic and the occult, the history of dance, gay and lesbian fiction, the literature of wit and humor, extremist and dissident literature, alcohol and addiction studies, and the book arts. The Brown University Archives, housed in the library, contains the records of the institution from its founding in 1764.