Graduate Travel to research collections

The Center for American Literary Studies has funding available for graduate students who wish to travel to libraries or other archives for their research. Awards will be made for up to $300 per request, and will be made for work in the field of American literary studies, broadly defined.

The grants will be awarded by an application process detailed below. There will be two deadlines for funding during the academic year: October 15 and March 15. Awards will be granted on a rolling basis, as funds allow; each student may only apply once per academic year. Applications should be made before travel occurs. Grants may not be used for conference travel.
Graduate students are eligible for CALS grants only if the given project is not already supported by the English department; in turn, projects under current or past funding from the department will not be eligible for CALS grants. There is no restriction, however, on a student holding separate awards from the Center and the department.

To apply for a grant to support travel to research collections, graduate students should submit a one-page statement that includes the following information:
1. Library or archive to be used
2. Nature and scope of research
3. Projected outcome (i.e., dissertation chapter, article, seminar paper, etc.)
4. Estimated budget

Applications should be signed by the student's dissertation advisor or by another qualified faculty member. Awards will be made upon return from the research trip; receipts are required.