Betty Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University

Research

manuscript culture print culture eighteenth-century literature poetry miscellanies magazines history of reading coteries

Latest funding

Reader creations: eighteenth-century manuscript poetry miscellanies in English
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$95,875
Secret/s and Surveillance--Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies- Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$24,680
Manuscript practice and the making of modern British print culture, 1740-1790
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$64,342

All 5 grants and awards

Reader creations: eighteenth-century manuscript poetry miscellanies in English

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Schellenberg, Betty A.

Keywords: manuscript culture; print culture; eighteenth-century literature; poetry; miscellanies; magazines; history of reading; coteries

$95,875

Secret/s and Surveillance--Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies- Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: King, Shelley

Keywords: eighteenth-century studies; Indigenous history; art history; surveillance; secrecy; media; censorship; correspondence; pedagogy; drama; history of the novel; biography; periodical press; women writers; history of science

$24,680

Manuscript practice and the making of modern British print culture, 1740-1790

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Schellenberg, Betty A.

Keywords: manuscript culture; print culture; social authorship; media in transition; literature; Samuel Richardson; bluestockings; William Shenstone; Thomas Gray; epistolary novel; poetry; domestic travel writing

$64,342

Richardson's correspondence and the matrix of modern British print culture, 1743 to 1763

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Schellenberg, Betty A.

Keywords: Richardson correspondence; 18th century Britain; print culture; authorship; 1743-1763

$34,104

Professionalization, the sequel, and the woman writer in England, 1740-1778

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Schellenberg, Betty

Keywords: print culture; sequels; women writers; authorship; publishing; Sarah Fielding; Charlotte Lennox; Frances Sheridan; Samuel Richardson; Sarah Scott

$17,970

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: manuscript culture Dear Professor Schellenberg, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on manuscript culture connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]