Woodress Visiting Scholar

Woodress Visiting Scholar

Deadline is: October 20, 2012.

Successful applicants will be informed by December 19, 2012.

The Cather Project, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, announces the availability of two awards for Woodress Visiting Scholars. These awards, $3,000 each, will provide for travel and residence in Lincoln, Nebraska, to conduct research on Willa Cather, drawing on materials and resources at UNL, Lincoln and Red Cloud, NE. These awards are enabled by the Roberta and James Woodress Fund.

Applications are invited from: early career scholars, advanced graduate students, recently completed PhDs, and faculty not yet tenured. The scholar is expected to be in residence in Lincoln for four consecutive weeks between January 1 - August 31, 2012. The Cather Project will assist with advice about travel and lodging arrangements. We will also help scholars make arrangements to travel to the Willa Cather Foundation in Red Cloud, NE, (150 miles from Lincoln) to conduct research using Cather materials.

The Cather Project produces the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition and Cather Studies, published by the University of Nebraska Press. The Archives and Special Collections, UNL Libraries, holds the largest collection of Cather letters of any library, letters to Cather, edited typescripts, multiple editions of her works, and many Cather-associated

materials. (Finding aids available on (http://libraries.unl.edu/spec.) The Willa Cather Archive, (cather.unl.edu) is another important resource located at UNL for the study of Cather’s life and writings.

Please send a C.V., a statement up to 3 pages describing the proposed research project and the importance of materials and resources at UNL to the project, a sample of scholarly writing (20-25pp focusing on Cather, though not necessarily exclusively), and 2 letters of recommendation. These letters should be specific to the Woodress Scholar award and proposed project rather than general letters of recommendation from your job placement dossier.

Please send these materials to:

eburke3@unl.edu (please place “Woodress Scholar” in the subject line) or mail them to:

Beth Burke, Cather Project

309 Andrews Hall, Lincoln,

NE 68588-0396.