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| Name | R. W. B. Lewis Laboratory |
R. W. B. Lewis Laboratory is a research facility associated with advanced studies in the humanities and interdisciplinary inquiry. The laboratory supports faculty, scholars, and fellows across multiple programs and collaborates with external institutes, centers, and funding agencies to advance scholarship in literature, history, and cultural studies.
The laboratory was founded amid initiatives led by figures tied to Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University and supported by donors from families such as the Rockefeller family, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with early advisory input from scholars affiliated with Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and University of California, Berkeley. Influential academics who shaped its direction included scholars connected to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Clifford Geertz, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Raymond Williams, Paul Ricoeur, and Frederick Jackson Turner through institutional mentorships and visiting appointments at institutions such as the British Library, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, New York Public Library, Bodleian Library, and Bibliothèque nationale de France. The laboratory’s establishment coincided with programs modeled after centers like the Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Berkman Klein Center, Institute for Research in the Humanities, and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Architectural planning involved firms with precedents at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Foster + Partners, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Herzog & de Meuron, Richard Meier & Partners, Kohn Pedersen Fox, and consultants experienced on projects for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University Medical Center, Yale School of Architecture, Princeton University Art Museum, and University College London. The building’s spatial program referenced museum and archive design typologies from institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Louvre Museum, Vatican Library, and Getty Center, integrating climate-control systems like those specified for the National Archives, Smithsonian Institution Building, and Bibliothèque nationale de France alongside laboratory planning practices used at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory.
Facilities support seminars, fellows, digital humanities labs, oral-history studios, curatorial spaces, conservation labs, and reading rooms with holdings connected to repositories like the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Huntington Library, The Newberry Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Research programs encompass archival projects, textual scholarship, editorial initiatives, computational humanities, and public humanities partnerships akin to collaborations between Digital Public Library of America, HathiTrust, Europeana, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Modern Language Association, American Historical Association, and Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. The laboratory hosts fellowships modeled on the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Fulbright Program, Rhodes Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, and grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation.
The laboratory is affiliated with departments and centers across universities including Harvard University Department of English, Yale Department of English, Princeton Department of English, Columbia School of the Arts, Stanford Department of English, University of Chicago Division of the Humanities, University of Michigan Department of English, Cornell University Department of English, Brown University Department of English, Duke University Department of English, Northwestern University Department of English, and research organizations such as the Council on Library and Information Resources, Association for Computers and the Humanities, Society of American Archivists, Modern Language Association, National Humanities Center, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It contributes to graduate training, postdoctoral mentoring, editorial projects, conference hosting, and visiting scholar programs linked to symposia like those at American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, and Society for American Music gatherings.
Major projects include digitization initiatives in partnership with Digital Public Library of America, editorial editions comparable to work on The Norton Anthology, collaborative translations resonant with projects from Penguin Classics, Oxford World's Classics, and Cambridge University Press, and interdisciplinary symposia featuring keynote participants connected to Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, Pulitzer Prize recipients, National Book Award winners, Turner Prize nominees, and fellows from the Institute for Advanced Study. The laboratory’s exhibitions and catalogs have been curated with institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Tate Modern, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and its conservation projects have aligned with standards from the American Institute for Conservation.
The laboratory is situated in proximity to major transport hubs and cultural institutions such as Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station (New York City), John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Logan International Airport, Boston Logan International Airport, Union Station (Washington, D.C.), and civic centers near Central Park, Boston Common, Harvard Yard, Princeton University campus, Yale University campus, and Columbia University campus. Public access policies, appointment procedures, and fellow application deadlines coordinate with calendars used by American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Program, and academic term schedules at Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, and Columbia University.
Category:Research institutes