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Literature Funding

 

Folger Shakespeare Library

Fellowships

Deadlines: Short Term Fellowships - 1 March; Long Term Fellowships - 1 Nov

The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period.  Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships.

 

Huntington Library 

Fellowships

Deadline: Annual - usually December

The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine.

The Library collections range chronologically from the ninth century to the present and include 600,000 photographs, a half-million rare books, nearly five million manuscripts, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. Within the general fields listed above there are many areas of special strength, including: Middle Ages, Renaissance, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, history of science, British drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California.

The Art Collections contain notable British and American paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library. In the library of the Botanical Gardens is a broad collection of reference works in botany, horticulture, and gardening.

Annually, the Library awards over 100 felowships. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at the Huntington (some of them are very short) and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.

Within this fellowship category, the Huntington awards a number of specialized fellowships, including:

  • the Francis Bacon Foundation fellowships in Renaissance England;
  • the Evelyn S Nation fellowship in the history of medicine;
  • the Monsignor Francis J Weber research fellowship in Roman Catholic history;
  • the Trent R Dames civil engineering history fellowship;
  • the Haynes Foundation fellowships in Los Angeles region history

 

 

Pilgrim Trust

Preservation and Scholarship Grants

Deadline: None

The Pilgrim Trustis Arts and Learning grants support scholarship, academic research, cataloguing and conservation within museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Grants are made to UK charitable or public organisations applying for charitable purposes. Small grants of up to £5,000 and large grants averaging approximately £20,000 are available.

NB Need to look carefully at the exclusions

 

Modern Humanities Research Association

Conference Grant Fund

Deadline: 31 January annually

These awards will not be made to individuals to attend conferences, but to the organizers of conferences to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students.

Publications Fund

Deadline: 28 February, 30 April, 30 September and 31 December annually

The MHRA invites applications for financial assistance towards the costs of publishing scholarly works in the field of the medieval and modern European literatures and languages (including English) which, by their nature, could not expect to be financially self-supporting.

Research Associateships

Deadline: 31 January annually

These grants are not made to individuals but to established corporate projects such as dictionaries, textual editions, bibliographies or other major scholarly enterprises in the field of medieval and modern European languages and literature. The awards are designed to hasten the completion of projects of special importance through the provision of part-time research assistance. Funding will be provided for the employment of a researcher, normally postdoctoral, to be appointed by the project in consultation with the association. The appointment may include a limited amount of remunerated teaching in the host institution, or other approved work.

 

 

Culture 2007

Programme


The Culture Programme has been established to enhance the cultural area shared by Europeans, which is based on a common cultural heritage, through the development of cooperation activities among cultural operators from eligible countries, with a view to encouraging the emergence of European citizenship.

The Programme is aimed at three specific objectives:

  • promotion of the trans-national mobility of people working in the cultural sector,
  • support for the trans-national circulation of cultural and artistic works and products,
  • promotion of inter-cultural dialogue.

The Programme has a flexible, interdisciplinary approach and is focussed on the needs expressed by cultural operators during the public consultations leading up to its design.

The detailed conditions for application can be found in the Culture Programme Guide on the following websites:

Directorate-General for Education and Culture
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.htm

Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.htm