The MMLA Short-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library
The Newberry Library is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2025-26 academic year! Newberry Library Fellowships provide support to researchers who wish to use our collection. We promise you intriguing and often rare materials; a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and other scholars; and an array of both scholarly and public programs. The Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Fellowship is a short-term opportunity for scholars working on projects in literary and cultural criticism. Applicants must be members of the Midwest Modern Language Association at the time of application and, if awarded, through the period of their fellowship.
For more information, including a comprehensive list of long- and short-term fellowships opportunities, eligibility requirements, and application guidelines, please visit our website at https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships.
Past Fellowship Recipients
To learn more about the projects of past MMLA–Newberry fellows, please select the corresponding links below.
| 2025–26 |
Henry Chen |
Sex, Domesticity, and Citizenship in Chinese America, 1875–1943
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| 2024–25 |
Dr. Karen Quandt
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Green Pulp: Stéphane Mallarmé and the Ecopoetry of Paper in fin-de-siècle France
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| 2023–24 |
Marc Blanc
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The Radical Midwest: African American Literature and Leftist Publishing in the Heartland, 1877–1940 |
| 2022–23 |
Dr. Julia Randel
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Reading Lillian Sommers Billman (1866–1957): The Novels and the Life of a Working Woman
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| 2020–21 |
Lino Mioni
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Venice as the Birthplace of the Printed Cookbook in Vernacular Italian: From Platina’s De Honesta Voluptate to the Epulario
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| 2019–20 |
Cynthia Smith (Deferred to 2021) |
Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature
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| 2018–19 |
Dr. Eric MacPhail
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No Word for God |
| 2017–18 |
Dr. John Garrison
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Shakespeare and the Afterlife
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| 2016–17 |
Dr. Rebecca Janzen
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Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons and Borderlands Popular Culture
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| 2015–16 |
Dr. Marie Glon
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Choreographic Enlightenment: European Dancing Masters at the Heart of a Publishing Phenomenon (1700–1760)
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| 2014–15 |
Dr. Justine S. Murison
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American Infidelity: Secularity, Slavery, and the Making of U.S. Fiction
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| 2012–13 |
Matthew Suazo
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Marais Impraticable: Translating Colonial Louisiana in Chateaubriand’s Atala |
| 2011–12 |
Lise Jaillant
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Sherwood Anderson, the Modern Library Series and the Canon of American Literature |
| 2009–10 |
Michael Genovese
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Sociable Currency: The Expansive Self of Eighteenth-Century British Literature |
| 2008–09 |
Dr. Manushag Powell
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The Performance of Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals |
| 2007–08 |
Dr. Jane Dougherty
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Mr. and Mrs. England: The Discursive Implications of the Anglo-Irish Union |
| 2006–07 |
Dr. Toni Bowers
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Bearing False Witness: Deceit, Disguise, and Religious Resistance in British Writing and Cultures, 1661–1711 |
| 2005–06 |
Dr. Thomas Augst
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The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Citizenship |
| 2004–05 |
Dr. Devoney Looser
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Garrulous Granddames: British Women Writers and Old Age, 1750–1850 |
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