Center for British and Irish Studies

Opportunities

Ogilvy Travel Fellowship

Application Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2009

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 2009-2010.

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 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 M.A. thesis or Ph.D. dissertation, but others may apply as well. The proposed travel must take place sometime between the beginning of summer 2009 and the end of summer 2010, 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 jill.heydt@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.
2. Provide your official or unofficial graduate transcripts in hard copy, or send them in the same email as a separate PDF attachment. These can be obtained from the CU Registrar’s Office on the first floor of Regent Hall (303-492-8987) and submitted along with your proposal. Transcripts must include the current, active semester. Please do not use transcripts printed from the PLUS system. Transcripts may not be sent separately from your proposal. Please note: the Registrar’s Office requires at least one working day to produce an unofficial transcript (cost $1.00) or at least four working days for an official transcript (free). New graduate students (first semester) may also submit copies of transcripts from their previous degree program.
3. 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 jill.heydt@colorado.edu. The advisor's letter should address the specific merits of the proposal and the abilities and potential of the student applicant.

For additional information, email Jillian Heydt-Stevenson at jill.heydt@colorado.edu or Michele Speitz at speitz@colorado.edu.

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

The Center for British & Irish Studies (CBIS) is pleased to announce the annual competition for Conference Travel Funding for 2008-2009. This opportunity is open to graduate students who have presented or will deliver papers dealing with British, Irish, or Scottish literature at a conference during the current academic year (August 2008-December 2009).

Graduate Student Conference Grants Application Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2009

Criteria: Please read carefully

1. The awards will be given solely to students who have presented or will be presenting a paper at a conference between August 2008 and December 2009. Awards will NOT be given to someone who has simply attended a conference. FUNDS WILL BE AWARDED FOR UP TO $500.00.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. All materials must be sent by email to Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Executive Director of the Center for British and Irish Studies, at jill.heydt@colorado.edu.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ADD YOUR LAST NAME TO THE TITLE OF EVERY SINGLE ATTACHMENT YOU SUBMIT.

Complete applications include the following elements sent in one email with three (3) separate attachments:

1. The Application Form, Parts I and II. (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. If you received this through email, you may forward it via email; if you received a letter through the mail, you must send a hard copy to Jillian Heydt-Stevenson at Department of English, 226 UCB.

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 Professor Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (jill.heydt@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.

For additional information, email Jillian Heydt-Stevenson at jill.heydt@colorado.edu or Michele Speitz at speitz@colorado.edu.

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

Event Funding Opportunities

Director: Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
Graduate Assistant: Michele Speitz
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