NeMLA Summer Fellowships

The NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program is designed to support primarily untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. This does not preclude senior faculty from applying. Fellowships ranging from $500 to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer.

The application requires a description of the proposed project including a project time line and detailed budget. Allowable budget items include travel and accommodations. This program does not provide funding for conference travel, equipment, or general office expenses.

Recipients of the NeMLA Summer Fellowship will be announced at the Business meeting at the NeMLA annual convention, and will receive a check in the days following the Convention. All applicants will be notified before the convention.

Recipients must wait three years before applying for another grant. A report is to be written at the end of the Summer Fellowship, and sent to the Chair of the NeMLA Fellowship Committee. Acknowledgement of the NeMLA Summer Fellowship grant must be included in any publication subsequent to the research conducted during the summer.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the 2009-10 competition is February 1, 2010.

Application Process

All applicants must be NeMLA members at the time of application
The application materials (a, b, and c below) may be sent electronically as MS Word attachments or in hard copy, and must be received by the Chair of the NeMLA Summer Fellowship committee (see below) by February 1, 2010
Applicants must not have received a NeMLA Summer Fellowship within the past three years.

Application Materials

A two-page application that describes the summer project and includes a timeline
An itemized budget
Two letters from colleagues in the field supporting the proposed project; for electronic submission, these letters must be on university letterhead, sent from a university email address and include the email account’s electronic signature. For hard copy submissions, the letters should be included by the applicant in sealed and signed envelopes in the application package.

Application Submission

Email submission: bwaddell@sjfc.edu; please put NeMLA Summer Fellowship in the subject line

To ensure receipt, all submissions will be acknowledged within 24 hours.

Hard copy submission:

Professor William Waddell
English Department
St. John Fisher College
Rochester, NY 14618

Questions

Any questions can be addressed to Bill Waddell:

bwaddell@sjfc.edu
Office phone: (585) 385-8209
Fax: (585) 385-7311