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CRITERIA FOR FINANCIAL AID First-year fellowships, awarded to sequential students only, carry no service requirement. All M.Phil. students--who each year meet both academic and service requirements--receive funding for five years of study beyond the M.A. In year 4, students must either take the departmental fellowship research seminar OR apply for at least one external fellowship -- either one that replaces a year of funding, or is a smaller fellowship, such as those that support travel to an archive. In year 5, students must apply for a major outside fellowship that provides a full year of funding, or, with advisor approval, for a smaller fellowship. In year 6, students must apply for either a major dissertation completion fellowship or for a post-doctoral fellowship. Students who win external fellowships can choose whether to receive top-up funding from the Graduate School, or to extend their support from Columbia by an additional year. Students with substantial external funding should consult the Department Administrator to establish their funding level and service requirements. Each April, students must apply for renewal of fellowships. Offer letters come from the Dean; all enclosures should be read carefully and all deadlines respected. Back to index SUMMARY
EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIP POLICY Ph.D students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature who win fellowships of $6,000 or more from sources outside Columbia University can choose whether they would prefer a "top-up" award from the Graduate School, with combined stipend of not more than $30,000 for the year, or whether they would prefer to defer one year of their Columbia Graduate School funding (in effect, extending their funding package by one year). For details, consult the GSAS webpage on the External Fellowship Policy: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/sub/finaid/external/new-topoff/. Back to index EVALUATIONS OF TEACHING Second-year Departmental Teaching Fellows are monitored by the department's Committee on Guidance and Evaluation (CGE), following written faculty comments on responsibility, timeliness, and acceptable level of competence. Writing Program instructors are monitored and assessed by the Directors of the Undergraduate Writing Program. Humanities instructors are monitored by the Director of Humanities and the Associate Dean of the College. Students not performing adequately will receive mentoring, followed (if necessary) by a written warning; if no improvement is shown, the CGE may deny further funding. Back to index WORK-STUDY Research positions are available to students eligible for the Federal Work-Study Program. Back to index RESEARCH Occasionally, students may be assigned to professors as research, rather than teaching, assistants. Back to index CORE CURRICULUM TEACHING Once all M.Phil requirements have been completed, students may apply to teach Literature Humanities or Contemporary Civilizations for the Columbia College Core Curriculum. Applications are obtained from the Core office (202 Hamilton) in the Fall term. The Department comments on candidates, as does the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program. Core instructors are expected to teach for two years. We recommend that students wait until their 5th year (usually spent on dissertation fellowship) to apply to teach in their 6th and 7th years. Students who apply in their 4th year and are appointed to teach in the Core in their 5th and 6th year cannot take the dissertation fellowship in the 5th year; the fellowship will be put on hold and taken in the 7th year. Students who have not taken their dissertation fellowship by the end of the fifth year and begin to teach Lit Hum or CC in their sixth year gain an extra year of funding from their Core teaching in year seven, but they lose their dissertation fellowship because they cannot receive Columbia funding for an eighth year of graduate registration. Back to index EXTERNAL AWARDS All students are encouraged to apply for external awards; advice and applications are available in 107 Low Library. Fellowship questions: Rebecca Hirade; (212) 854-6722; rst1@columbia.edu. Questions regarding loans, work study, and external funding: Sandra Peters; (212) 854-3808; scp3@columbia.edu. Sample applications from students in our department who have won awards in the past years can be consulted: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/posters/proposal_samples.htm. Back to index WHITING FELLOWSHIPS Whiting Fellowships are for the completion of the dissertation. Applicants must have submitted at least one chapter to their advisor at the time of application (early February). Whiting Fellowships are not external awards: the Department sends a ranked list of applicants to an interdepartmental committee. Absolutely no funding from departmental or GSAS sources is available after a Whiting Fellowship. Back to index SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Summer Fellowships provide at least $3,000 toward travel and/or living expenses. Awards are given to students in their second to fifth year with priority to students who have been teaching in the Undergraduate Writing Program. Applications for these awards are due in 602 Philosophy in mid-March. Further information is available in the Department. Back to index MELLON INTERDISCIPLINARY FELLOWS PROGRAM Andrew W Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellows Program at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy: Two-year fellows program brings together advanced, talented graduate students from the humanities and social sciences to foster their understanding and use of methods, approaches and forms of knowledge associated with the different disciplines of the university. Provides an intellectual and material environment for completing high-quality dissertations: office space with individual computers at Columbia's SIPA (plus all office-related expenses); travel and conference grants; generous summer funding between first and second years; and bi-weekly seminars where fellows meet to discuss a fellow's dissertation chapter, possible article or job talk. In the past, students have come from Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Culture, Economics, English and Comparative Literature, History, Journalism, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Sociology, Social Work and Teachers College. Application deadline: April 15. More details can be found here. Back to index |
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