Research Support Grant Program

Each Fall, the Maine Women Writers Collection solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program, intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection. MWWC Research Support Grants range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses.

Application guidelines:

Applications should include the following:

 

a one-page cover sheet with your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number

present status and institutional affiliation (if any)

working title of the project

the amount of time you would like to spend at MWWC (minimum of one week)

a list of financial support you have received for this project

proposed budget (not to exceed $1000)

a one-page description of your project. Successful applicants will demonstrate their project's relevance to the unique holdings of the MWWC (specifically which holdings you expect to use) as well as the significance to your field of study

a curriculum vitae of no more than three pages

graduate students should also arrange to have a letter of reference sent directly to the MWWC. This letter should speak to the applicant's scholarly experience, ability, and promise.

 

Applications will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel of staff from the MWWC and faculty from the University of New England.

Recipients will be asked to write a brief, 250-word report on their research and to contribute to the MWWC a copy of any publications resulting from research in the Collection.

Deadline for 2008-09 applications: December 1, 2008

Please send applications to:

Cally Gurley, Curator
Maine Women Writers Collection
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, Maine 04103-2670

Questions may be directed to:

Cally Gurley, MWWC, (207) 221-4324, or cgurley@une.edu

Jennifer S. Tuttle, Dorothy M. Healy Chair, MWWC, (207) 221-4433, or jtuttle@une.edu

   
 

Click here for a printer-friendly version of the grant application (pdf).

 
 

Prior grant recipients:

2006-7
Karen A. Weyler, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Scholarly edition of Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood’s Dorval

Jennifer Putzi, The College of William and Mary, "Female Genius in the Correspondence of Elizabeth Stoddard and Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat"

2005-6
Rita Bode, Trent University, “Harriet Prescott Spofford, Writer and Friend”

Kelly L. Lankford, Grand Valley State University, “Josephine Peary: Beyond the North Pole”

2004-5
Janet Galligani Casey, Skidmore College, "Gladys Hasty Carroll and the Popularization of Rurality"

Ann M. Ingram, Davidson College, "The Culture of Flowers in Nineteenth Century America"

2003-4
Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia, "'Treacherous Texts': American Suffrage Literature, 1848-1945"

Denise M. Kohn, Greensboro College, Scholarly edition of Christine: or The Trials and Triumphs of Woman, by Laura Curtis Bullard

2002-3
Kathrine C. Aydelott, University of Connecticut, "Maine Stream: A Bibliographic Study of the Critical Reception of Sarah Orne Jewett"

Carrie J. Cole, University of Maryland, "The 'Social' Work of Women: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Women's Charitable Speaking Engagements, 1895-1925"

Carolyn Gage, Playwright and Independent Scholar, "Lizzie Borden and Sarah Orne Jewett Play"

Susan D. Franzosa, University of New Hampshire, "Grey Days and Gold: A Biography of Kate Douglas Wiggin"

2001-2
Patricia Pierce Erikson, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, "Women Authoring Space in the 'Public Sphere' of Discovery"

Rose Marasco, University of Southern Maine, "Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat, 1823-1908," Photograph exhibition at the MWWC and the Portland Museum of Art

 
 

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