Eligibility Requirements:

Applicants for all awards must be current SCMLA members and must have been members for the previous two years. Graduate Student Grant applicants must have been members for one year. SCMLA Executive Committee members are ineligible. Email Graduate Student Grant entries, Benson-SCMLA Faculty Research Grant, SCMLA Research Travel Grant, and Paper Prize applications in .pdf format to Diana Hodges, Assistant Program Director, scmla@ou.edu.

THE SOUTH CENTRAL MLA ANNOUNCES NEW PRIZES:

The Jafar and Shokoh Farzaneh Paper Prize

in Persian Literature and Culture

$1500 to the winner

$500 for honorable mention

August 31, 2012 deadline

For more information, please contact Nancy LaGreca, South Central MLA Executive Director at lagreca@ou.edu

We thank the Farzaneh family for this significant contribution to literary studies.

The Benson-SCMLA Faculty Research Grant

$1500

February 29, 2012 Deadline

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SCMLA Research Travel Grant

$3000

February 29, 2012 Deadline

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SCMLA Conference Travel Grants

$200 for Graduate Students at the doctoral level

$500 for Faculty and Independent Scholars

April 30, 2012 Deadline

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2012 SCMLA Stipends:

Graduate Student Grant at the dissertation stage ($500)

February 29, 2012 deadline.

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2012 SCMLA Conference Paper Prizes:

Bill L. and Gerre D. Andrist Prize Hispanic Gender Studies ($750)

August 31, 2012 deadline

SCMLA Prize for the Best Paper in

Historical Literary and/or Cultural Studies ($250)

August 31, 2012 deadline.

2012 SCMLA Book Award ($500)

March 30, 2012 deadline

Send two copies of the nominated book by March 30, 2012 to SCMLA President for 2012, Anne Quinney, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi, Bondurant C113, University, MS 38677 For an acknowledgement of receipt of books, please send an email to Anne Quinney at aquinney@olemiss.edu (Nominees must have been members for the previous two years and have paid 2012 membership dues by March 1.)