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The Fales Library at New York University is accepting applications for the Coleman Dowell Fellowship on Experimental Works for the academic year 2006-2007.
The Dowell Fellowship is a new granting opportunity for scholars of experimental work to visit the Fales Library to do research with our collections. The fellowship is named after Coleman Dowell, the postmodern novelist and author of Island People, A Star Bright Lie, and Too Much Flesh and Jabez.
The Coleman Dowell Grant for Experimental Work enables visiting scholars (faculty, Ph.D. students, and private scholars) to do in-depth research on experimental writing by providing one grant of $2,500 to be used for travel, lodging, and living expenses for a research stay in New York City. The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage and facilitate the use of the Fales Library's extensive collection of papers, publications, and media related to experimental writers and artists who lived in New York since 1970.
The Fales Library is a major repository for New York experimental work. Included among our collections are the papers of David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper, E. L. Doctorow, Richard Foreman, Richard Hell, and John Watts and the archives of the Judson Memorial Church, Mabou Mines, and Fashion Moda. Please visit our website for further information on collections
Applications must include a letter (no more than two pages) describing the project, the reason for the need to use the Fales Library collections, and a current CV. A panel of scholars will review each proposal. Decisions about the awards will be made solely on merit. The application deadline is October 15, 2006. Successful applicants will be notified by early January 2007. Please send applications to Marvin J. Taylor, Director, Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University, 70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012.