Applications call for Visiting Fellowships at the British Library Eccles Centre for American Studies – The British Library. Basically, these awards are offered to help support individuals wishing to visit London to use the British Library’s collections relating to North America (the USA, Canada, and the greater Caribbean).

Funding

Applicants may apply for up to the following amounts, depending on where they are based:

• North America (Canada, the US and the greater Caribbean): max. £2,500
• Europe (excluding UK): max. £2,250
• The UK (outside the M25): max. £2,000
• The UK (within the M25): max. £600

Research Areas

For the 2021 competition applications are encouraged that consider topics in the fields of:

• North American and Caribbean Indigenous Studies
• Literary, theatrical, and artistic connections in Canada, the Caribbean and the US
• Book history and arts in North America
• Pacific Ocean politics and geopolitics
• Migration in/from/through Canada, the Caribbean and the US
• LGBTQ cultures and histories in Canada, the Caribbean and the US

It is expected that this award will support around a month’s work in the Library, either taken continuously or as a number of smaller trips. The 2021 awards will last for 3 years so, for those in receipt of a 2021 Fellowship, the research trip(s) will need to take place between 1 May 2021 and must be completed by 30 April 2024.

Eligibilities

British Library Visiting Fellowships welcome not only applicants from academic backgrounds working on scholarly research, but also from creative practitioners working on artistic and cultural projects. This means that research towards a doctoral degree, an academic monograph or article, a poetry collection, a theatre production, a body of painting or sculpture, a new fashion collection…all these kinds of projects and more will be considered. Basically, funding is available to individuals based in the UK, Europe, Canada, the United States and the greater Caribbean.

Application

In order to apply. academic researchers should use this form, whilst independent researchers and creative practitioners should use this form. All applicants must also read the Terms and Conditions.