Announcing the 2026 Special Collections Visiting Fellow

Watzek Library Special Collections and Archives is pleased to announce the Eric Rosenblum is the recipient of the inaugural Special Collections Visiting Fellowship. Rosenblum will work with the Katherine Dunn collection and related collections held at Lewis & Clark College this June and July, 2026.

More information about the fellowship is available on the Special Collections website.

April 14, 2026
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Eric Rosenblum, recipient of the 2026 Special Collections Visiting Fellowship

Eric Rosenblum is a Brooklyn-based writer, couples and family therapist, and adjunct associate professor of writing at Pratt Institute. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in newyorker.com, the Paris Review Daily, Playboy.com, the Chicago Tribune, Guernica Magazine, and many other publications. Geek Life, Eric’s full-length biography of the late Portland author Katherine Dunn, will be published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette, in 2027.

The aims of the Special Collections and Archives Fellowship are to facilitate new research into our holdings and to raise awareness of the collections amongst the research, writing, and artistic communities and the general public. 

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