Deadline: Rolling until Monday, April 24, 2023
Notification: Monday, May 15, 2023
The Center for Writing offers the LRS Minor Dissertation/Master’s Project Summer Fellowship to support graduate students doing research and writing related to their work in the LRS Minor. Recipients are usually invited to present their research at an LRS Research Series event.
Eligibility: Applicants must be accepted in the LRS Minor, and be making timely progress toward completing their Minor requirements. For PhD students, the fellowship supports dissertations. For Master’s students, the fellowship supports preparing a thesis or MFA final portfolio. Students who have received this award in the past are not eligible for it again.
Amount: A stipend of $1500 for Summer 2023
Application Procedure: Please submit the following:
Information on applying for the Graduate Minor in LRS.
Each grant can be received only once per person.
Travel grants can go towards both in-person and virtual conferences.
The Center for Writing offers the LRS Minor Graduate Student Travel Grant to fund travel expenses incurred by students currently enrolled in the Graduate Minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies who have presented or will present at academic conferences. Preference will be given to presentations and conferences related to literacy, writing pedagogy, composition theory and practice, and interdisciplinary topics related to the Minor. Recipients are usually invited to present their research at an LRS Research Series event.
Eligibility: Applicants must be accepted in the LRS Minor, and be making timely progress toward completing their Minor requirements. Eligible travel expenses must be for conferences that take place between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. New University policies require that travel reimbursement be done within 60 days of departure, so applications should be submitted before or immediately after travel. Students who have received this award in the past are not eligible for it again.
Application Procedure: Please submit the following:
Amount: Up to $300 allowable travel expenses (conference registration, airfare, hotel, transportation, and meals).
Information on applying for the Graduate Minor in LRS.