NEMLA Awards and Prizes

NEMLA sponsors several awards to promote new scholarship in modern languages.   Listed below are the different competitions

The Executive Director and Board congratulate the past and present recepients of NEMLA's various awards and prizes. Click on the link to see a list of winners.
 

Annual Book Awards

     The NEMLA Book Prize is an annual award bestowed upon the best unpublished manuscript of book-length by a member of the Northeast Modern Language Association.
 

 Summer Fellowships

     To support the research of untenured junior faculty, graduate students and independent scholars, the NEMLA Summer Fellowship Program awards summer travel grants of $1,000.
 

Caucus Paper Awards

     To recognize quality research among their constituents, the individual Caucuses sponsor paper competitions following each convention to presenters. In addition to an honorarium, cash prizes may be awarded.

Newberry Library-NEMLA Fellowship

     To better serve our members working in languages other than English, NeMLA has just established a partnership with the Newberry Library. This short-term fellowship for Ph.D. candidates or post-doctoral scholars offers up to one month's support ($1,200) for work in residence at the Newberry. NEMLA membership must be current at the time of application and through the period of the fellowship. Preference will be given to projects focusing on materials written in French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Application Deadline: March 1, 2008. For more information, visit the Newberry Library site at: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/short-term.html

NEMLA/American Antiquarian Society Fellowship

      AAS-Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowships are for research in the literary history of America and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that can be supported by the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. The award is jointly funded by the Northeast Modern Language Association and AAS. Degree candidates are not eligible. NEMLA membership is not required of applicants; awardees who are not already members must join.
      Please visit the AAS Web site for details (the application procedure is noted on the right side of the page that is linked here).Two awards will be made in 2007-08. Deadline: January 15.