Date Published: 10.06.2024
Wadham's Bowra Junior Research Fellow, Dr Marta Zboralska has been awarded a two-month Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. The Alexander M. & Christina Schenker Fellowship will allow Dr Zboralska to study at the library from September to October 2024, looking at the archive of Polish writer, Witold Gombrowicz.
Dr Zboralska's current research project, Art After Witold Gombrowicz, maps responses to Gombrowicz across the field of visual art. Demonstrating the author’s wide-ranging, transnational influence on artists, she uses art-historical methodologies to study how Gombrowicz’s prose has been transformed into a variety of materials and mediums, traversing geographical contexts.
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library opened in 1963 and today houses collections spanning thousands of linear feet of manuscript and archival material, ranging from ancient papyri and medieval manuscripts to the archived personal papers of modern writers, artists’ books, photographs, avant-garde, audio-visual and born-digital material.
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