The annual fellowship is designed to support an individual whose doctoral dissertation involves literary history and/or aesthetics by providing a three week residency at a cabin nestled on nine acres in the mountains of West Virginia. Preference is given to candidates whose dissertation is at an advanced stage. The cabin is fully equipped and has Internet service. The dates of the residency are flexible and to be determined by the fellowship recipient in consultation with the ALSCW. Applicants must submit a c.v., a chapter of their dissertation, a two page description of the entire dissertation, and three letters of recommendations. Materials should be submitted online to alscw@cua.org with the heading ALSCW Fellowship on the subject line of the email. Additional references and an occupancy agreement may be required. All applicants must be members of the ALSCW or sponsored by a member of the ALSCW. The deadline for submission is February 15th. The recipient of the fellowship will be notified by mid-March. Membership information is available at on our website (alscw.org).
Category: Grants & Funding
2011 Stephen J. Meringoff Matching Grant for the ALSCW
Dear Members and Friends of the ALSCW,
Many of you may remember at last year’s ALSCW meeting at Princeton that President Greg Delanty announced that Stephen J. Meringoff of New York had promised us a $10,000 matching grant, contingent upon our raising the same sum from our membership. You all responded quickly and generously, and we more than raised the amount he asked of us. Mr. Meringoff was so impressed by this response that he matched it as well, and gave us considerably more besides.
ALSCW/VSC Fellowship Application : Deadline (Feb 15th)
The application deadline for the Second Annual ALSCW/VSC Fellowship is in less than three weeks! For more information about the Vermont Studio Center, please visit www.vermontstudiocenter.org/. If you are interested in applying for the, fellowship, go to www.vermontstudiocenter.org/fellowships. to download an application.
The ALSCW/VSC Fellowship provides a one-month VSC residency for a writer who is a current member of the ALSCW. It is open to all of the Association’s creative writers and literary translators. To be eligible for the fellowship, please make sure you have paid your 2011 dues. If you still need to renew, please do so online at https://www.bu.edu/literary/membership/join-or-renew.shtml.
NEH Grants for Undergraduate Teaching – Sept/Oct Deadlines
The National Endowment for the Humanities supports undergraduate course development through:
- Enduring Questions Course Grants (new courses)
- Teaching Development Fellowships (existing courses)
Enduring Questions Course Grants (up to $25,000)
What is the good life? What is beauty? What is friendship? What is the relationship between humans and the natural world? Enduring questions such as these have long held interest to college students and allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations.
ALSC Receives Major Funding from the NEH
We are thrilled to report that on March 10, the Association received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities funded through the Division of Education Programs, continuing our recent run of great success in raising money for our programs and activities. Great thanks are owed to Immediate Past President Christopher Ricks for the indispensible role he played in presenting our case to the generous and hard-working program officers at the Endowment. We are very hopeful and optimistic that news of this award will help us in our continuing efforts to attract major support from other funding agencies and individuals. So please—spread the word!
Vermont Studio Center and Zoland Poetry Offer Fellowships for Two New Studio Residencies
We call your attention to a fellowship opportunity specifically for translators—a month-long residency award at the Vermont Studio Center sponsored by VSC and Zoland Poetry.
The Big Read Announces Grant Opportunities
A reprint of a press release of interest.
The NEA has a new grant opportunity to celebrate poetry in your community! We are proud to announce the expansion of The Big Read to include three poets featured in our American Literary Landmarks program—Emily Dickinson, Robinson Jeffers, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts—in partnership with the Poetry Foundation—created a new component of The Big Read called American Literary Landmarks that celebrated three of the nation’s historic poetry sites: the Emily Dickinson Museum, Robinson Jeffers’s Tor House, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Wayside Inn. The Big Read programming in 2009-2010 expands reading choices beyond books to include these three poets and their works. The deadline for applications is February 3, 2009. Please see below and at www.NEABigRead.org for the full guidelines.
New NEH Funding for Courses on Enduring Questions
What is the good life? What is friendship? What is good government? Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it? What are the limits of science? Enduring questions such as these have long held interest to college students and allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has recently launched “Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants.” This new grant program will support college faculty from any discipline with up to $25,000 to develop and to teach a new undergraduate humanities course that addresses questions like these.