17th & 18th Century Studies

Related Faculty    research centers

journals and publications   funding opportunities

French & Francophone Faculty

Patrick COLEMAN (Ph.D., Yale)
Eighteenth Century, the Novel, Rousseau.

Sara MELZER (Ph.D., Chicago)
Seventeenth century theater, art and politics, rhetoric and communication theory.

Malina STEFANOVSKA (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins)
Seventeenth century, historical memoirs, theory, cultural studies.

Stephen WERNER (Ph.D., Columbia)
Eighteenth century, Diderot, the Comic.

Research Centers & Resources

The UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Designed to provide a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies, the organizes scholarly programs and workshops, bringing together scholars from the area, the nation, and the world, with the goal of encouraging research in the period from 1600 to 1800.

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
A rare books and manuscripts collection, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641-1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It stands thirteen miles off campus (about a half-hour drive), in the West Adams District of Los Angeles north of USC. It is administered by UCLA's Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Journals & Publications

The following volumes, which originated in Center/Clark , have been published during the year 2000: The Abbé Grégoire and His World, edited by Jeremy D. Popkin and Richard H. Popkin, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body, edited by Helen Deutsch and Felicity Nussbaum, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and David N. Myers, Atlanta: Scholars Press.

Funding Opportunities

Clark Dissertation Fellowships
One or two fellowships are awarded each year to UCLA doctoral candidates whose dissertation involves extensive research in the Library's holdings. The award is for one academic year in residence at the Clark. Stipend: $15,000 plus fixed graduate fees, excluding nonresident tuition.

Predoctoral Fellowships
Three-month fellowships are available to University of California doctoral candidates whose dissertation research involves the area of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies or one of the other areas represented in the Clark's collections. Stipend: $6,000 for the three-month residency.

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