About the Center
History of the Center
The W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire Studies was founded in 1968 by the College of Arts and Sciences of Vanderbilt University as a joint project between the Department of French and Italian and the Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Its core was the personal collection of the eminent Baudelaire scholar, William Thomas Bandy, who continued to work with the collection until his death in 1989. Claude Pichois, the distinguished French editor and biographer of Charles Baudelaire, served as director of the center from 1982 until his retirement in 1998. The W.T. Bandy Center's name was changed in 1998 to The W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, reflecting the enhanced scope of the collections.
Visitor Information
The Bandy Center is located on the 8th floor of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Central Library) on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. Scholars are welcome and may work at the center during the scheduled public hours and by appointment. Inquiries should be addressed to the Assistant Director.
Research Fellowship Information
The W.T. Bandy Center offers a number of research fellowships. Both paid and unpaid fellowships are named according to their relationship to the Center Collections and selected based on the merits of proposed projects. Fellows are requested to acknowledge the Center in their publications and provide copies of their works to the Center. The paid awards are meant to help scholars defray the cost of travel and housing expenses.
Application form in Microsoft Word
Research
Fellows
2010
Philip Edward Phillips, Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, 2010-2012 W.T. Bandy Fellow,
"Baudelaire's Poe: Selections from the W.T. Bandy Collection."
Mathilde Labbé, Ph.D. Candidate, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, W.T. Bandy Fellow,
“Réception Baudelaire et transmission de la culture littéraire.”
2009
Ben Bakhtiarynia, W.T. Bandy Fellow, “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Immoralism: Baudelaire, Nietzche, Wilde.”
Daniel Ridge, Pascal Pia Fellow, "Le Jeune homme de lettres à l'époque décadente."
Kathryn Brown, Claude Pichois Fellow, “Relationship of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal and the 1947 illustrated edition by Henri Matisse.”
Support the W.T. Bandy Center
The W.T. Bandy Center welcomes donations to support and enhance the collections, research fellowships, and special programs.
For more information, please contact the W.T. Bandy Center.
W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies
Central Library
Vanderbilt University
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37240-0007
U.S.A.
(615) 343-0372
bandycenter@vanderbilt.edu
www.library.vanderbilt.edu/bandy/
Center Staff
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Director
Lisa Weiss, Assistant Director
Yvonne Boyer, Librarian
