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A preservation assessment of the university's institutional records and special collections comprising about 8,600 volumes and 1,500 linear feet of archives and manuscript collections. Among them are the records of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York that document the university's involvement with abolitionist activities and national politics leading up to the Civil War; the papers of the Colgate family that created the present-day Colgate-Palmolive Company; materials on William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, and John Cowper Powys; assorted local history materials; and the papers of university faculty, alumni, and community members.

Colgate University's Case Library seeks a Preservation Assistance grant to engage a consultant for (1) a general preservation assessment for the Special Collections and University Archives department and (2) a workshop on mold. The materials in the archives and special collections include rare books, manuscript collections, University archives, and local history materials. The preservation assessment will focus on broad collections management, staffing, and environmental and storage concerns, and a written report will propose and prioritize plans for improvements. At a later date, the consultant will present a half-day workshop for the staff on mold, preventing mold, and responding to mold outbreaks. Both the assessment survey and the workshop will be carried out by consultant Karen E.K. Brown, Preservation Librarian at the University at Albany, NY.

Project fields:
Archival Management and Conservation

Program:
Preservation Assistance Grants

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$4,754 (approved)
$4,754 (awarded)

Grant period:
2/1/2013 – 7/31/2014

A preservation assessment of the College's special collections, to include the Rare Book Room, the Friends Historical Library, and the Peace Collection. The assessment would help identify preservation priorities and lead to disaster preparation strategies for the three collections, which are in regular use by students and a wide variety of humanities scholars interested in Quakerism and the history of social reform movements in North America during the last two centuries.

Swarthmore College requests an NEH grant to support an assessment by an expert consultant of the current preservation practices of its Rare Book Room, Friends Historical Library, and Peace Collection, and an assessment of disaster preparedness procedures for McCabe Library, which houses these collections. Significant holdings include the W.H. Auden Collection; volumes from Thomas Jefferson’s library; correspondence of T.S. Eliot; an extensive private press and artists’ book collection; the largest depository of archives, manuscripts and printed material concerning the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in North America; and North America’s only collection related solely to peace, disarmament, conscientious objection, non-violence, and women in the peace movement. These irreplaceable items are currently at risk of extensive damage due to the unstable conditions in McCabe Library, and an assessment would be the first step toward ensuring their preservation.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Preservation Assistance Grants

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$5,281 (approved)
$5,281 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2012 – 6/30/2013

This project is a study of mid-century literary institutions that were involved in the formation of both modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature. How did some of modernism's leading figures of the 1930s, such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender, become admirers of late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Likewise, why did the first generation of postcolonial writers--including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o--actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? My original archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to see one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antagonists.

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Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/2010 – 12/31/2010

This project will focus on transatlantic sites of cultural production--especially publishing houses, highbrow periodicals, and literary radio programs--that were integral to modernist literature and later facilitated the emergence of postcolonial writing. This inquiry seeks to explain why some of modernism's leading figures, such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, and Roy Fuller were enthusiastic readers of literature from former British colonies, much of it stridently anticolonial in outlook.

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Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2008 – 7/31/2008

A five-week summer seminar for college teachers applying concepts of religious experience to poetry, with special attention to the poetry of George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill.

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$121,927 (approved)
$121,927 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2004 – 12/31/2005

A four-week national institute for 25 high school teachers on the use of manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and drafts as a way to study the poetry of John Keats, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot

Project fields:
American Literature; British Literature

Program:
Institutes for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$170,570 (approved)
$170,570 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2000 – 12/31/2001

No project description available

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Project fields:
Comparative Literature

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$27,500 (approved)
$27,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1989 – 6/30/1990

No project description available

Project fields:
Literary Criticism

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$1,800 (approved)
$1,800 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1989 – 8/31/1989

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$67,423 (approved)
$67,337 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1989 – 9/30/1990

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$66,275 (approved)
$66,275 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1988 – 9/30/1989

To support the production of three 60-minute documentary films on T.S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath as part of a 13-part series on the world and work of American poets.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Humanities Projects in Media

Division:
Public Programs

Totals (outright + match):
$500,123 (approved)
$500,123 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/1/1987 – 4/30/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Seminars for School Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$48,049 (approved)
$48,049 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1987 – 9/30/1988

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$2,200 (approved)
$2,200 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1987 – 8/31/1987

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$27,500 (approved)
$27,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1987 – 12/31/1987

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature; Literary Criticism

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1986 – 9/30/1986

No project description available

Project fields:
Literary Criticism

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1985 – 1/31/1986

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95

Division:
Fellowships and Seminars

Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1986 – 7/31/1986

To support a research and writing project on W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/76 - 2/85

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$2,200 (approved)
$2,200 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1984 – 8/31/1984

To support production of three one-hour television documentaries on the world and work of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost; and writing scripts for four one-hour documentaries on William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens.

Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Media

Division:
Public Programs

Totals (outright + match):
$878,139 (approved)
$878,139 (awarded)

Grant period:
3/1/1984 – 3/31/1986

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,700 (approved)
$2,700 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1983 – 9/30/1983

No project description available

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Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$20,000 (approved)
$20,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1980 – 8/31/1981

No project description available

Project fields:
Literature, General

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/7/1979 – 7/7/1979

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$20,000 (approved)
$20,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1977 – 8/31/1978

Through a careful, analytical reading of long poems such as William Carlos Williams's Paterson and T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," to develop a critical methodology for dealing with modern long poems, to investigate the organizing principles and the functions of these poems.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$15,000 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1977 – 5/31/1978

No project description available

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$9,259 (approved)
$9,259 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1977 – 8/31/1978

To study selected major works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. The seminar will relate all four poets to the American poetic tradition and will place them in a broad intellectual and literary landscape. The seminar will explore those similarities in style and viewpoint which underlie the apparent antagonisms between European influences and the native inheritance.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$41,865 (approved)
$41,865 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1976 – 8/31/1976

To study selected major works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. The seminar will relate all four poets to the American poetic tradition and will place them in a broad intellectual and literary landscape. The seminar will explore those similarities in style and viewpoint which underlie the apparent antagonisms between European influences and the native inheritance.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Seminars for College Teachers

Division:
Education Programs

Totals:
$1,451 (approved)
$1,451 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1977 – 9/30/1977

To approach T.S. Eliot's collected essays and uncollected writings through an examination of Eliot's use of language and poetic mode by means of a computerized Concordance to his poetry and plays. This is an attempt to come to grips with Eliot's preoccupation with process, experience, history and' "the burden of the past".

Project fields:
British Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$15,000 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1976 – 5/31/1977

To trace the "American quest for a Supreme Fiction," beginning with the now unread early traditional epics, through Whitman's radical departure from the conventional structures, to recent examples in experimental forms, and including: Ezra Pound's Cantos, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (original version), Wallace Stevens' long poems including "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction," and Allen Ginsberg's Howl! and The Fall of America.

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$18,000 (approved)
$18,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1974 – 8/31/1975

To write a literary history of the years 1909-1922 focusing upon the changing relationship between the English and American literary traditions. In order to convey a sense of time and place the study will examine a wide variety of literary and social events, emphasizing trends and movements as well as the careers of major authors (Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and others).

Project fields:
American Literature; British Literature

Program:
Fellowships for University Teachers

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$17,618 (approved)
$17,618 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1974 – 8/31/1975

No project description available

Project fields:
American Literature

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$1,500 (approved)
$1,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/1971 – 8/31/1971

No project description available

Project fields:
Comparative Literature

Program:
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$9,500 (approved)
$9,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/1971 – 5/31/1972