SAMPLE  GRANT  PROPOSALS The links below will take you to successful examples of fellowship/grant proposals. The linked documents are password protected and available only to graduate students in the Columbia English Department. If you have not received details on how to access the documents, you should contact either the Director of Graduate Studies or the graduate coordinator in 602 Philosophy Hall. Before getting started, read How To Write a Fellowship Application.

Columbia University Traveling Fellowship deadline: first Monday in February The Lukacs Archives in Budapest Manuscript research in Europe Marriage in Spanish Golden Age novella collections Contemporary German women's writing and visual arts On Action and Mimesis: A Study in the Philosophy of Acting

FLAS   [Foreign Languages & Area Studies Fellowship] deadline: usually February The lives/teachings of desert ascetics of late Greco-Roman antiquity The Ineffable World and the Word: Problems of Verbal and Visual Representation in Modernist Literature

Fulbright IIE   [Institute of International Education] deadline: early-mid September Representations of Male Friendship in Early American Literature Modern Men: New Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain

German Academic Exchange Service deadline: early May Representations of the Modern European City The allure of "impure aura": Jewish Esoterica and Modern German Poetry The German-Jewish Historical Novel Urban "Redemption": German Cities and Holocaust Memory, 1933-1961

John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship English and indigenous peoples in early American promotional literature

Liebmann Fellowship deadline: mid-January Engaging the Viewer: Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy Polemics and print in Renaissance Europe The Maternal Muse: Representations of Women in Balzac

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship      for Research in the Humanities in Original Sources deadline: mid-November English Child Custody Law and the Victorian Novel The Political Imagination of Malory’s Morte Darthur

Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship deadline: early November Common Profit: Economic Morality in English Public Political Discourse

Reid Hall and Lurcy Fellowships deadline: first Monday in February Biblical and Canonical Preface in the 11th and 12th Centuries Jewish Identity and Jewishness in Proust Prostitution and Avant-Garde Culture T.S. Eliot, Ernst Curtius and Jean Paulhan The 18th-Century French Landscape Architect, Jean-Marie Morel

Whiting Fellowships deadline: first Monday in February Heike: A Study in a Medieval Japanese Narrative Tradition Body and Soul in Bonvesin da la Riva and Dante Modernism and the Ordinary: Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Stevens Self and Other in Russian Women's Autobiographical Texts The 18th-Century Novel and the Origin of the Idea of Personal Finance The Novel in India: Colonial Policies and Domestic Revisions The Vocation of Failure: Generic Trouble in Victorian and Modernist Writing Towards Universality: The Poetry of Robert Hayden Jewishness and English Culture in the Victorian Novel The Ambivalent American: Political Travel Writing from the U.S. since WWII Temporality and Authority in Late Medieval English Literature