The Center administers the Ahmanson Undergraduate Research Scholarships to support undergraduate students.
Up to ten undergraduate scholarships are offered every year to support undergraduate student research at the Clark Library. These are intended for UCLA upper-division students who enroll in a designated course (usually open to upper division students from any UCLA department) or in a recognized departmental honors program in which an assigned research project requires the use of Clark materials. Program details, seminar descriptions and requirements, and application procedures are announced each year.
2011-2012: Winter Quarter
Shakespeare on Page in his Age
(English 182B.3)
Instructor: Professor Jonathan Post, English.
Shakespeare on Page in his Age, the Ahmanson undergraduate seminar for winter, 2012, will be directed by Jonathan Post, English, UCLA. Sessions will be held 13 miles east of campus at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library on Wednesdays, from 1 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. Enrollment is limited to ten participants, and those who successfully complete course requirements will receive an award of $1000. Upper division students from all disciplines are invited to apply.
It’s a little known but glorious fact that the Clark Library holds a substantial collection of materials relating to Shakespeare—plays and poems that he wrote and matter that he read. The latter has been considerably augmented of late by the library’s recent acquisition of the Paul Chrzanowski Collection. So, for instance, we can now read Romeo and Juliet not only as it might have looked to someone in 1632, the date of the publication of the Second Folio, which includes Shakespeare’s famous play. We can also read and visualize (as it appeared to Shakespeare) one of the play’s original sources, Rhomeo and Juiletta, published in 1567.
This course will be modeled around the idea of imagining and understanding Shakespeare in his age by way of the page. In reading his works, we will make extensive use of the Clark’s printed material relating to selective aspects of his life and writings. Readings will include his poems—the sonnets as well as the spicy narrative poems—some of his plays, their sources, and their edited afterlife. By examining representative period title pages, frontispieces, commendatory poems, and engravings, we will also attend to the emergence of the author as subject, Shakespeare especially. Students will be asked to give one oral report and write one research paper.
During the week of December 5, 2011, Professor Post will conduct interviews with students who wish to enroll in this course. Prospective students should submit the following documents:
- a letter explaining their reasons for wanting to enroll in the class
- a copy of their DPR
- a resume containing contact information
The document should be submitted to Professor Post in the English Department Main Office by November 21, 2011.
Questions about seminar content:
Professor Jonathan Post
Department of English
149 Humanities Building
post@humnet.ucla.edu
Questions about the program:
Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
310-206-8552
310 Royce Hall, UCLA
Questions about the Library:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
323-731-8529
2520 Cimarron Street, L.A. 90018
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