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Lindsay Young Visiting Regional Faculty Fellowship

Bringing scholars from around the Southeast and Appalachia to UTK

About:

Marco donor Lindsay Young

Thanks to the generosity of Lindsay Young and the Aslan Foundation, the Marco Institute offers several Lindsay Young Visiting Regional Faculty Fellowships every year. These non-service fellowships are intended to bring scholars from Tennessee and neighboring regions to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where they can make use of research resources in late antique, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern fields to further their research agendas and take part in the intellectual life of the Institute.

These fellowships are open to scholars with terminal degrees at all regional institutions of higher education, as well as credentialed independent scholars in the area, but preference will be given to faculty teaching in the state of Tennessee.

Visiting fellows will have library privileges for the duration of their fellowship, including access to online databases, and are expected to acknowledge the support of the Institute in publications arising from their tenure of the Fellowship. As much as possible depending on the time of year, fellows are also expected to participate in Marco activities and meet with Marco graduate students during their residency.

The fellowship carries a stipend of approximately $750/week, and also covers one-time round-trip travel costs to and from Knoxville (up to $500). Recipients of the fellowship are responsible for making their own housing accommodations for their stay. See below for suggestions of housing resources and other information.

How to Apply:

The term of the fellowship is generally between one and four weeks, to be undertaken between December 1 and July 31. Applications will be evaluated by the Lindsay Young Fellowship Committee, which will also make final determinations on the duration of the award.

FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 20, 2023

To apply, please send the following documents as electronic attachments to the Marco Institute at marco@utk.edu:

1. Lindsay Young Fellowship application cover page, downloadable here:

2. The following documents, combined into a single PDF file:

  • A short description of your project. (750 words or less)
  • A brief work plan, clearly demonstrating your need to be in residence at UTK and outlining your general proposed work schedule and specific UTK holdings that you plan to access. Please also note if there are specific members of the Marco community with whom you hope to meet, and/or any Marco events that you are planning to attend while in residence. (750 words or less)
  • A short financial plan, including a travel budget, for your proposed dates of residency. (350 words or less)
  • A copy of your CV.

Resources for Fellows:

On-campus housing: http://housing.utk.edu/conferences/guest/

  • The University has a VERY limited number of accommodations available to outside guests. UT Housing will need confirmation from Marco that you are sponsored by the Institute. (Note that parking is not automatically included in a UT Housing reservation. It is the fellow’s responsibility to request at least two weeks in advance that the Marco Institute contact Parking Services to arrange for a campus parking permit.) If you wish, the Marco Institute can pay directly for your campus lodging and parking – the costs will be deducted from your final fellowship payment.

Off-campus housing: Previous attendees have found housing in Knoxville through hotels, AirBnB, etc.

Parking:

  • Daily campus permits: Non-UT guests may purchase daytime parking permits valid for any commuter (C) or non-commuter (N) parking area.
  • Monthly campus permits: It is the fellow’s responsibility to request that the Marco Institute contact Parking Services to arrange for a monthly campus parking permit. This should be done at least two weeks in advance of the start of a fellow’s residency.
  • Overnight campus permits: As noted above, overnight parking is not automatically included in a UT Housing reservation. It is the fellow’s responsibility to request at least two weeks in advance that the Marco Institute contact Parking Services to arrange for an overnight campus parking permit.
  • Please visit Parking and Transit Services located at 2121 Stephenson Drive to obtain your permit. Their office hours are 7:30 am to 4:45 pm, Monday through Friday.
  • Free street parking is available in the neighborhoods around campus (e.g. Fort Sanders), but cannot be guaranteed.
  • Guests can also get to campus via the free trolley from downtown.

Campus map: https://www.utk.edu/maps/

Library Resources:

Visit Knoxville: https://www.visitknoxville.com/

Nathan D. Howard, Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Lynneth Miller Remberg, “From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300–1700,” Journal of the Northern Renaissance (2023)
Mary Baldridge, Spiritual Androgyny: The Creation of a New Orthodoxy by Medieval Christian Women (San Juan: Penelope Academic, 2012).
Rebecca Brackmann, The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English (D.S. Brewer, 2012).
Michelle Moseley-Christian, “From Page to Print: The Transformation of the ‘wild woman’ in Early Modern Northern Engravings,” Word & Image 27.4 (2011): 429-42.
Alex Novikoff, “Anselm, Dialogue, and the Rise of Scholastic Disputation,” Speculum 86.2 (2011): 387-418.
Todd Richardson, Pieter Breugel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands (Farnham, VT: Ashgate, 2011).
Robert Sawyer, “Biographical Aftershocks: Shakespeare and Marlowe in the Wake of 9/11,” Critical Survey 25.1 (2013): 19-32.
Chad Schrock, “The Ends of Reading in the Merchant’s Tale.” Philological Quarterly 91 (2012): 591-609.
Chad Schrock, “The Passage T. S. Eliot Took.” Essays in Criticism 64 (2014): 74-89.
Voss Roberts, Michelle, Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014).