Center for British and Irish Studies

Opportunities

Ogilvy Travel Fellowship

Application Deadline: Friday, March 16, 2012
The Center for British & Irish Studies is pleased to announce the annual competition for the J.D.A. Ogilvy Graduate Travel Fellowships in British & Irish Studies for 2012-2013
Applications are now being accepted for fellowships of up to $4500 to support travel to Britain or Ireland for graduate research and study in any aspect of British and/or Irish Studies. Graduate students working in all departments and colleges at CU-Boulder may apply. Preference will be given to students who need to go to Britain or Ireland to work on a Ph.D. dissertation, but others may apply as well. The proposed travel must take place sometime between the beginning of summer 2012 and the end of summer 2013, and may be of any length. The proposed travel must be taken before the formal granting of the graduate degree and must be for academic purposes only. Please note: This fellowship is for research only and not for conferences.

Complete applications must include the following elements sent in ONE email to gabrielle.dietrich@colorado.edu.

1. In one attachment send the following:
1. The application form. (Download in MS Word or RTF format.)
2. A project description of no more than 1,000 words. This must also include a careful explanation and justification of why travel to Britain or Ireland is necessary (e.g. what documents does the student need to look at that are unavailable online, in Norlin, or through another library in the area).
3. A summary of the proposed schedule with dates and places you will visit.
4. A budget with an explanation of expenses.

1. In a second attachment, send a PDF of your unofficial graduate transcripts.    These can be obtained from the PLUS system by following these instructions:

                  Log into myCUinfo
                  (https://portal.prod.cu.edu/MyCUInfoFedAuthLogin.html)
                  Click on the “Student” tab
                  Under the “Academic Resources” banner, click on “View/Request Transcripts”
                  Disable any pop-up blockers on your browser
                  On the left side of your screen click on “View unofficial transcript”
                  Click on the green button that says “View Unofficial Transcript”
                  Save the window that pops up as a PDF

         Transcripts may not be sent separately from your proposal.
         New graduate students (first semester) may also submit copies of transcripts from their previous degree program.

Additionally, applicants should secure the following:

A Confidential Letter of Support. Request a confidential letter of support from your advisor or a faculty          member familiar with your work. Ask your advisor to email this letter via attachment to gabrielle.dietrich@colorado.edu. The advisor’s letter should specifically address the merits of the proposal and the abilities and potential of the student applicant.

For additional information, email Jeremy Smith at jeremy.smith@colorado.edu or Gabrielle Dietrich at gabrielle.dietrich@colorado.edu.

2011 Ogilvy Winners

K. Amber Curtis, “Cultivating the Collective: Institutions’ Effect on Identity Formation.”
Randall Harmon, “The Evolution of ‘Site’ in Contemporary British Site-specific Theatre.”
Kevin Lucas Lord, “Kingship and Sacred Identity: Henry III of England and Louis IX of France.”
Michele Speitz, “The Seismograph: Technologies of Planetary Performance, 1755-1875.”  

2009 Ogilvy Winners

Theresa Crapanzano, “‘An Upsurge of World Sympathy’: Culture, Community, and News Coverage of Bobby Sands.” Keeley W. Stokes, “Combating Social Exclusion? Local Partnerships, Network Design and the Role of Ideas.” Tonja Van Helden, “The Moving Figure: Studies of figuration in postmodern literature and contemporary dance theory.”

2008 Ogilvy Winners

John Leffel, “The Sexual Scripts of Empire: Gender, Commerce, and Identity in the Literature of Early British India, 1760-1827” Dawn Colley, “Judging Authority: Chaucer, Prose, and the Promotion of Right Understanding” Jennifer Poppel, “Spectacular Bodies: Contract, Struggle and Subversion between Actress and Spectator in Restoration England (1660-1700)”

2007 Ogilvy Winners

Susan M. Cogan, “Patronage, Social Credit, and Gender among English Catholics, c. 1580-1620.” Brianna Depperschmidt, “Diuers Evelles and Many Greet Greuaunces: Sickness and Sanctity in the High Middle Ages.” Dana Van Kooy, “Radical Stages in Romanticism: The Dramatic Forms of Shelley’s Politics.”

 

Graduate Student Travel Grants

Application Deadline: Friday, March 16, 2012
The Center for British & Irish Studies (CBIS) is pleased to announce the annual competition for Conference Travel Funding for 2011-2012. This opportunity is open to graduate students who have presented or will deliver papers addressing a subject dealing with British, Irish, or Scottish studies, at a conference during the current academic year (August 2011-December 2012).
Criteria: Please read carefully: The awards will be given solely to students who have presented or will be presenting a paper at a conference between August 2011 and December 2012. Awards will NOT be given to someone who has simply attended a conference. FUNDS WILL BE AWARDED FOR UP TO $500.00.

1. The paper must be related in some way to the study of British, Scottish, or Irish Studies (simply attending a conference in the UK does not count).
2. Generally speaking, the awarding committee will tend to give preference to students presenting at major national or international conferences (as opposed to local or regional ones), and/or to those whose presentation is related to work on their thesis or dissertation.
3. All materials must be sent by email to Gabrielle Dietrich, graduate assistant for the Center for British and Irish Studies, at gabrielle.dietrich@colorado.edu.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ADD YOUR LAST NAME TO THE TITLE OF EVERY SINGLE ATTACHMENT YOU SUBMIT (i.e, don’t just title it “Conference Grant”).

Complete applications include the following elements sent in one email with one (1) attachment to Gabrielle Dietrich at gabrielle.dietrich@colorado.edu.

1. The Application Form. (Download in MS Word or RTF format.)
2. A budget listing your expenses (transportation, hotel, registration, meals).
3. A copy of the acceptance letter you received from the Conference Organizers. Send this electronically (a forwarded acceptance email or PDF scan of a hard copy letter are both acceptable).

Additionally, applicants must secure the following:
A letter of recommendation from your major advisor or other faculty member familiar with your work, sent by that faculty member via email attachment to Gabrielle Dietrich (gabrielle.dietrich@colorado.edu) by the due date. Letters should comment on the student’s qualifications and on the importance of the student’s participation in the conference.

2011 CBIS Conference Grant Winners

Bryan James Erickson: “Speaking to Oneself: The Dialectics of Writing in Orlando,” presented at the 2011 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf in Glasgow, Scotland.

Kimberly Whelan Gardner: “Marginalia and the Interiority of Spenserian Readership in a 1609 Faerie Queene,” presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

2008 CBIS Conference Grant Winners

Debbie Killingsworth: “The Shifting Example of Knighthood in Ywain and Gawain,” presented at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo

Terry Frances Robinson. “Diversifying Despite Itself; or, How Romantic Period Acting Practices Delegitimized the Legitimate London Theater,” presented at the 16th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, University of Toronto

Sara Smilko: “Transnationality and Regionalism in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt,” presented at the Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, University of Oxford

Michele Speitz. “Blood Sugar and Salt Licks: Corroding Bodies and Preserving Nations in the Autobiography of Mary Prince,” presented at the 16th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, University of Toronto

Dana Van Kooy: “The Haunting Specters of State Violence in Byron’s Sardanapalus,” presented at the 16th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, University of Toronto

2007 CBIS Conference Grant Winners

Petra Landfester, “Looking at Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey through ‘the lens of the law.’” International Conference on Romanticism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

John Leffel, “‘Prostituting Kitty’: Jane Austen's Catharine, or the Bower” at the International Conference on Romanticism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Peter Remien, “Irish Woods and Oaten Reeds: Transforming Forests in Spenser’s Faerie Queene” at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Ann Stockho, “‘This Coupled Work’: Duality of Voice in Renaissance Secretary Manuals and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Dedicatory Poems to the Psalms” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

James Walsh, “Colorado’s Molly MaGuires: The Great Leadville Strike of 1880” at the Canadian Association for Irish Studies in St. John’s, Newfoundland

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Director: Jeremy Smith
Graduate Assistant: Gabrielle Dietrich
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