In addition to the Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellowship, many other fellowships and awards are available to our Ph.D. students: Summer Fellowships for 1st year Ph.D. Students,the Anais Nin Memorial Fellowship, the Penfield Fellowship,Comp Lit Student Travel Awards, GSAS Fellowships and Awards, and External Fellowships and Awards.
Also noted below are selected fellowships and awards received by Comp Lit students since 2007-2008.
Comp Lit Summer Fellowships for 1st year Ph.D. Students
The Department will make $1,000 in funding available to each of our 1st year Ph.D. students in the summer after his/her 1st year of study in the program. These fellowships are primarily intended to support language training or research toward the dissertation.
To receive the Summer Fellowship, 1st year students must be in “good academic standing” as defined by GSAS*, and should submit a brief statement of purpose and up-to-date academic transcript to the Director of Graduate Studies. The date for this submission will be announced annually by the department (usually the beginning of March).
Special note for Summer ’10: In addition to Ph.D. students beginning the program in Fall 2009, this summer funding is also available in Summer ’10 to three continuing Ph.D. students. Applicants for these three $1,000 fellowships cannot have been awarded the summer fellowship previously and should follow the submission process noted above.
Anais Nin Memorial Fellowship
The Department awards this endowed fellowship to an outstanding student of Comparative Literature who has completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation. There is no application for this award.
Penfield Fellowship
The Department awards this endowed fellowship to an advanced dissertation-level student studying in the area of belle-lettres, international affairs, and/or diplomacy. There is no application for this award.
Comp Lit Student Travel Awards
Ph.D. students in years 1 through 5 of their studies can apply for a variety of travel award options to present papers at scholarly or professional non-student conferences. Applications should be submitted to Angela Leroux-Lindsey.
Note: We strongly advise that students apply for the GSAS Travel Grant for the first instance of conference travel (GSAS almost always awards first-time applicants; their travel grant is more than ours; their travel grant is also open to MA students).
Eligibility and Application
- Applicants must be matriculated Ph.D. students in “good standing”* in the Department of Comparative Literature and cannot be past their 5th year. Terminal M.A. students, Fulbright Scholars, non-degree candidates, Visiting Scholars, and Global Scholars are not eligible.
- Travel awards are not made for attendance only, i.e., students must be presenting a conference paper.
- Travel awards are not made for presentations at graduate student conferences.
- Travel awards are not made to students on leave of absence or those maintaining matriculation.
- Applications must be accompanied by a letter or e-mail of acceptance from conference organizers.
Award Options
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students can apply for up to $400 in travel award. This can be either two $200 awards for two conferences OR $400 in travel award for one conference.
- 4th and 5th year students can apply for another $350 travel award to one conference. If a student has not used one of the earlier $200 amounts, this $200 can be combined with the $350. (Both the $200 amounts cannot be carried into the 4th/5th years).
*GSAS Good academic standing = minimum GPA of 3.0; must have successfully completed 66 percent of credits attempted while at NYU, not including current semester; Courses with grades of IP, IF, N, W, and F are not considered "successfully completed."
GSAS Fellowships and Awards
Each spring and fall, the Graduate School of Arts and Science offers the opportunity to apply for various fellowships and awards designed to reward exceptional students who are actively engaged in thesis research or dissertation writing. A list of current GSAS Fellowships and Awards appears below. Contact Angela Leroux-Lindsey for descriptions and details of application.
Fall: Dissertation Writing Fellowships, Dissertation Research Fellowships, Dean’s Fellowships, James Arthur Fellowship, Elaine Brody Fellowship for the Humanities, Lane Cooper Fellowship, Torch Fellowship
Spring: GSAS Summer Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Andrew Sauter Fellowship for Pre-doctoral Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Maizer Summer Fellowship, Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowhip, Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship, Margaret and Herman Sokol Post-doctoral Fellowship, Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Prizes, Dean’s Outstanding Student Teaching Awards, Arts and Science Prize Teaching Fellowship
External Fellowships and Awards
For information on external fellowships and awards, please contact the NYU Office of Student and Academic Life (OASL) at: 212-998-8060 or gsas.studentlife@nyu.edu.
Selected Fellowships and Awards Received by Comp Lit Students Since 2007-2008
Note: This listing does not include travel award recipients.
2009-2010
Haytham Bahoora: Post-doctoral fellowship: the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin (the Wissenshaftskolleg) as part of their "Europe in the Middle East: The Middle East in Europe" program.
Michiel Bot: 2009 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Patrick Gallagher: 2009-2010 Penfield Fellowship
Anna Krakus: GSAS Summer Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Beata Potocki: 2009 Dean's Dissertation Award
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz: doctoral fellow with the DFG (Deutsche Forschsgemeinschaft, a German Research Foundation) Graduiertenkolleg (Doctoral Research Group), Lebensformen und Lebenswissen ("Forms of Life and the Know-How of Living")
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra: summer research grant from the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Lorraine Wong: 2009-2010 Anais Nin Memorial Fellowship
2008-2009
Jieun Chang: 2008-2009 Anais Min Memorial Fellowship
Ipek Celik: 2008-2009 Penfield Fellowship
John Patrick Leary: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Erica Weitzman: stipend in the DFG Graduiertertenkolleg "Lebensformen und Lebenswissen" at Europa-Universität Viadrina and Universität Potsdam
Anne Mulhall: 2008-2009 Fulbright
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz: 2008 GSAS Summer Predoctoral Fellowship
Robyn Creswell: Summer 2008 MacDowell Colony Fellowship; ACLA/Mellon Fellowship
Katharina Piechocki: Summer 2008 NYU Global Fellowship
Haytham Bahoora: 2008-2009 Arts and Science Prize Teaching Fellowship
Lori Cole: 2008 Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship
Erica Weitzman: Freie Universität exchange/scholarship
2007-2008
Christopher Apap: 2008 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Haytham Bahoora: 2007-2008 Penfield Fellowship;CAS outstanding teaching award;
Arts and Science Prize Teaching Fellowship
Bregtje Hartendorf-Wallach: 2007-2008 Anais Nin Memorial Fellowship.
Jennifer Cayer: GSAS Dean's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Humanities; GSAS Summer Pre-doctoral Fellowship; IFA-GSAS Forum on Visual Culture
Fernando Perez: GSAS Summer Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Summer 2007
Micaela Kramer: Robert Holmes Travel and Research Awards for African Scholarship, Summer 2007
John Patrick Leary: Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship, Summer 2007
Katharina Piechocki: NYU Global Fellowship (summer 2008 at NYU-in-Florence)
Jennifer Kaplan: ARCE Fellowship to Egypt; FLAS to Egypt
Ipek Celik: Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Pu Wang: 4th Liu Li-an Poetry Award
Robyn Creswell: MacDowell Colony Summer (Writing) Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz: DAAD German Studies Summer Research Grant
