Michelle Mancini, who will be the Una's Fellow in this year’s Townsend Fellows Group, is a Ph.D. candidate in English working on a dissertation entitled Nowhere at Home and Everywhere: Accommodating Gypsies in Nineteenth- Century Britain. The dissertation is particularly concerned with nineteenthcentury attempts to place the figure of the “gypsy” within a shrinking British countryside, an expanding field of ethnographic knowledge, and a more sophisticated terrain of literary production. It considers both highly canonical literary texts and more ephemeral cultural productions like playbills, religious tracts, and guides to fortune telling.