EMiC offers one-year stipends of $12,000 (MA) or $15,000 (PhD) to graduate students who are registered in, or entering, an MA or PhD program at one of the EMiC partner universities and who are engaged in research relevant to the project’s mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. Successful applicants are strongly encouraged to seek matching funds from their universities and external funding from granting agencies.
In offering these stipends, EMiC interprets its mandate in the broadest possible terms: that is, the stipends are not limited to masters and doctoral students involved in work on an EMiC print or electronic edition; on the contrary, they are open to any student engaged in masters or doctoral research relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and humanities computing. While EMiC interprets its mandate in the broadest possible terms, preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. Applicants proposing print or electronic editions of modernist texts should indicate whether they have obtained written permission from the estate. EMiC will require proof of that permission before it can release funds to successful applicants.
Although the stipends are for a single year, doctoral students can reapply for a second award. Such re-applications by doctoral students are not automatic renewals; requests for renewals will be adjudicated in the same manner as, and in competition with, new applications. EMiC will neither entertain applications for a third doctoral stipend nor award funding to students beyond the fifth year of their program.
EMiC will provide an allocation of $12,000 (MA) or $15,000 (PhD) to the partner universities at which successful applicants are registered. EMiC co-applicants and collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities.
MA and PhD students must be supervised by an EMiC co-applicant or collaborator and enrolled at or applying to an EMiC partner institution. Before submitting an application for funding, incoming students must secure commitments in principle from prospective supervisors and students already enrolled in a graduate program at an EMiC partner institution must obtain a supervisor. EMiC cannot fund students supervised by faculty members who are not themselves project participants.
Successful MA and PhD applicants are required to submit a report on their project within two months of completing the term of the award. Reports can be submitted online at the EMiC website. Subsequent applications will be conditional on the timely submission of these reports.
The application deadline for 2012-13 is March 30th, 2012.
Form for MA and PhD Stipends
Please arrange to have two letters of reference submitted via the form for referees before the application deadline.