Assistance for Advanced Graduate Students Traveling to the Annual Conference

The ACLA has allocated funds to provide partial travel reimbursement of up to $200 to advanced graduate students each year. Applicants must be current members of the ACLA and be presenting a paper at the annual conference. The ACLA is particularly concerned with helping students who have no support for conference attendance from their institutions or other sources, who incur substantial costs for travel to and from the convention, and who have not received travel reimbursement from the ACLA in a prior year. The ACLA can fund up to 40 students per year. Regrettably we receive many more applications than we can fund so this funding is by no means guaranteed. The above criteria are used in selection, but we urge students to inquire at their own institutions as well for travel support. Additionally, thanks to the generosity of the friends and family of Haskell Block, a single grant of up to $500 is awarded each year to an international graduate student presenting a paper at the conference. (Learn more about the Block grant.)

Please Note: ACLA is no longer accepting travel grant applications for the 2008 conference.

Application Requirements

In addition to the application information below, each applicant should submit a brief statement stipulating that he or she has no external support for travel to the convention, together with a statement on university letterhead signed by the student's dissertation director or department chair confirming that the student is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the signer's institution. An email confirmation of the student's enrollment from an official institutional email address will also be accepted.

How to Apply

1. Send the following information in the body of an email to info@acla.org with the subject line, "ACLA 2008 Graduate Student Travel Grant Application":

• Name
• Home Address
• Email Address
• Phone number
• Fax number (if available)
• University Affiliation
• Title of paper
• Title of panel and session organizer

2. Include a brief statement stipulating that you have no external support for travel to the convention.

3. Submit a statement from your department chair or dissertation director confirming your current enrollment in a doctoral program. This can be sent either through email to info@acla.org or as hard copy to the address below.

Fax/Mail:

Send all application materials with the above information to:

ACLA Secretariat
University of Texas at Austin
Program in Comparative Literature
1 University Station B5003
Austin, TX 78712-1096

or fax to 512-471-8878.

All application materials must be received in the ACLA office by 1 February 2008.