The deadline to apply for the 2022 Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellowship in Bibliography and Book History is approaching.
Created in 2005 to honour Professor Fleming on the occasion of her retirement from the Faculty of Information, the fellowship is awarded to a scholar outside the University of Toronto, who works in the field of bibliographical studies or book history.
The award amount is $3,000, along with University of Toronto library privileges, and office space at the Faculty of Information, for the duration of the fellowship. The recipient will conduct research for up to one month at Toronto libraries and/or archives over the course of the 2022/23 academic year.
Due to the pandemic, the fellowship has not been awarded since 2018. The last recipient was Tatevik Nersisyan, who conducted research at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. For her project, she consulted an annotated Italian-language edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron owned by Sir Thomas Lucy(1532-1600), an important figure near Stratford-upon-Avon connected to William Shakespeare. By studying Lucy’s thoroughly annotated book, Nersisyan aimed to bring forward more information about Sir Thomas Lucy’s activity beyond anecdotal history regarding Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s possible allusions to him in his plays.
