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MLA Graduate Student Travel Grant
As you may know, each year the MLA offers its Graduate Student Travel Grant to qualified Ph.D. candidates for travel to to the MLA convention. The $100 grant is given to advanced graduate students as partial reimbursement of expenses for travel to the convention, this year in San Diego.
Students must be 2003 members of the MLA (the deadline to join the association or to renew membership in order to qualify for the grant was June 30, 2003) and must have met all the requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation.
Letters of application must reach the MLA by November 3, 2003, by mail to the Office of Special Projects at the MLA office or by fax (646-835-4067). Fax transmissions may be used to meet the deadline, but they must be followed by signed letters. Each letter should include a brief statement by the student stipulating that he or she has no external support for travel to the convention, together with a statement on university letterhead signed by the student's dissertation director or department chair confirming that the student is enrolled in a doctoral program at the signer's institution and has met all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation.
For additional information or details on how to apply, please refer to the MLA's Web site at www.mla.org or contact the Coordinator of Book Prizes and Special Projects, at (646-576-5141) or at awards@mla.org.
Connie Sue May
Administrative Secretary
Department of Comparative Literature
Indiana University
Ballantine Hall 913A
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Phone: (812)855-9602
Fax: (812)855-2688
Email: csmay@indiana.edu