Grants

Academic Programming Grants

DEADLINE: For best consideration for Spring 2023 Events, apply by 20 January 2023.

Eligibility: This call is open to undergraduate English majors, graduate students, lecturers, PTK and TTK faculty, and staff of the English department for public events.

Goals:  These grants are designed to facilitate activities that

• foster the advancement of multidisciplinary and collaborative scholarship in the humanities;
• encourage scholars and students to think beyond their immediate periods and areas of expertise;
• offer opportunities for exchanges among students, alumni, lecturers, faculty, staff, and members of the general public;
• spur new ideas, daring scholarship, and creative activities
• consolidate and extend the global perspective on teaching and scholarship characteristic of the English Department.

Special consideration will be given to proposals that support the Department's CAARES initiative.

Funding and Logistics: For complete details, see CLCS 2022-2023 guidelines, here.
Grants do not support individual research projects, travel costs, equipment purchases, or hiring research assistants. 

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Beyond the Classroom Grants

DEADLINE: For best consideration for the spring semester, submit your request by 7 February 2023.

Eligibility: Any instructor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland may apply. Priority will be given to projects and/or speakers that support the English studies curriculum. Please note that funds are not available for “visits” by individuals within the University of Maryland System (we cannot compensate employees on payroll in the UMS).

Goals: For AY 2022-2023, CLCS will support ten Beyond the Classroom speakers with honoraria capped at $250. These speakers will “visit” face-to-face ENGL undergraduate courses via Zoom or other appropriate video platforms. Instructors imagining a more ambitious program may instead apply for an Academic Programming Grant.

Administer Your Grant:
Once funding is granted, awardees need to submit a completed and signed honorarium letter and W9 form to the Business Office, english_business@umd.edu, and cc knelson@umd.edu.

Submit your event to the Department’s calendar here, and note that it’s a “Beyond the Classroom” supported event.

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Faculty Researching and Writing Group

DEADLINE: Priority application by 15 September 2022; rolling as funds are available beyond that date

Eligibility: All professional track faculty (non-TTK) and professors of the practice are eligible to become funded participants in a Faculty Research and Writing Group. Tenure track faculty and graduate students who are also lecturers may participate but will not receive funding. Professional track faculty members are eligible for only one annual FRWG $250 award, although they may participate in more than one group.

Goals: Grant is designed to support a three-to-five person research group with $250 per person to help underwrite costs that groups incur by ordering books and other research material or supporting research-related travel or conference participation.

• The Center for Literary and Comparative Studies continues its pilot program aimed at enhancing faculty research in the department for AY 2022-2023
• Group will meet at least twice a semester with such formats as a reading group or a writing workshop
• Advance each member’s research and scholarly writing
• Discuss common interests
• Produce the equivalent of a journal article, book chapter, or creative piece and present it to the group
• Comment on each other’s work

Reporting: A description of funded groups, based on the contents of submissions forms, will appear on our website to showcase faculty research in the department. 

Administer your grant:
If you plan to use your funds towards book purchases, please submit the Purchase Request Form to the Business Office (english_business@umd.edu)

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