The Department has regularly at its disposal two forms of financial aid for graduate students in language and literature: Fellowships and Associate Instructorships. Loan and work-study eligibility are determined by the Office of Student Financial Assistance.
Each year the department offers a small number of fellowships. First-year fellowships are generally available only to graduate students entering the literature concentration; applicants for the Ph.D. program who have already done graduate work elsewhere will normally not be considered for them. In 2016, fellowships will carry a stipend of about $18,000, plus a tuition and fee-remission that covers roughly 90% of the cost of enrollment. Fellowship packages are typically succeeded by an Associate Instructorship, renewable for five years or more, provided the student makes reasonable progress toward fulfilling degree requirements. To apply for a fellowship, the applicant should check "yes" on item 6 of the application form.
Associate Instructorships in the first year are only available to applicants to the concentration in Literature if they have completed an M.A. (or its equivalent) at the time of their appointment as Associate Instructor; in 2016, stipends will be $15,750, plus tuition and fee remission.
for outstanding graduate student in poetry
for a graduate student whose work shows considerable promise, whether in fiction, poetry, playwriting, or creative prose
This fund supports the Earle Ho Graduate Teaching Award in Creative Writing ("Teaching Award"),which is awarded to a graduate student who teaches creative writing on the IUB campus.
Fellowships for outstanding graduate students in poetry and fiction
to graduate students at IUB majoring or concentrating in creative writing on the basis of demonstrated performance in the field of creative writing
graduate fellowship for a student in the Department
to support either a graduate scholarship or fellowship in the Department of English
annual fellowships in English with strong preference given to women graduate students
for academically meritorious graduate students in the Department of English at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University who plan to pursue either an MFA or a PhD with a concentration in the writing of fiction
for an incoming graduate student in the Creative Writing Program in the English Department
for outstanding incoming African-American, Latino/a, Asian-American and Native-American students, named in honor of Marcellus Neal, the first African-American graduate of Indiana University (B.A., Mathematics, 1895), and Frances Marshall, Indiana University’s first female African-American graduate (B.A., English, 1919).
fellowship awarded to an outstanding incoming student in poetry, established in honor of Yusef Komunyakaa, who taught in Indiana University’s Creative Writing Program and Department of English from 1985 through 1996, during which time his work received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry, the William Faulkner Prize, the Southern Literary Association's Hanes Poetry Prize, among other honors. The Yusef Komunyakaa Fellowship in Poetry is a two-year fellowship.
fellowship awarded to an outstanding incoming student in fiction, established in honor of Omar S. Castañeda, who was a member of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program's first graduating class (1983) and whose seven novels, short story collections, books for children, and edited anthologies received several national honors including the 1993 Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction and the Boston Globe Literary Press Award. Omar S. Castañeda died in 1997. The Omar S. Castañeda Fellowship in Fiction is a two-year fellowship.
A fellowship awarded to an outstanding incoming student in poetry, established in honor of Lynda Hull, who graduated from the M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program in 1988 and whose three collections of poetry were awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry, the Edwin Ford Piper Poetry Award, the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry, and Finalist status for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Lynda Hull died in 1994.
A fellowship awarded to an outstanding incoming student in creative writing, established in honor of Darrell Burton, whose M.F.A. in Creative Writing was awarded posthumously by Indiana University in 2004, and whose poetry appeared in Ploughshares’ special "Emerging Writers" issue, the Crab Orchard Review, The Ryder, Equinox, and elsewhere. Just prior to his death he had completed work on a collection of poems titled Weather Within.
A one-month-long residency fellowship awarded to outstanding third-year M.F.A. students in fiction. The Ledig House International Writers' Colony is located approximately two and a half hours north of New York City in the hamlet of Omi, in the scenic Hudson River Valley. Writers and translators from all fields live and write on the 300-acre grounds and sculpture park that overlook the Catskill Mountains. During the residency fellows have the chance not only to write but also to meet other guests as well as visiting literary agents and prominent editors from major New York publishing houses. The Ledig House International Writers' Colony Residency Fellowship is made possible by an anonymous donor.
for a student enrolled in a Department of English course at the graduate level who intends to pursue a career in writing
annual awards given to students in the Department of English, with preference for creative, commercial, or public writing, and composition.
for an Associate Instructor in our Composition program who has achieved outstanding results with innovative, stimulating teaching methods.
This fund supports awards for graduate student instructors of composition.
for an outstanding graduate student enrolled at Indiana University majoring in English.
for an English Graduate student whose primary study is American Literature.
This fund supports awards in the English Department with an emphasis on Romanticism.
for the best graduate paper on British Literature
The fellowship shall be awarded to academically meritorious students who are admitted to the Department of English at the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University and who plan to pursue a doctoral major in Old English, Middle English, or Renaissance literature.
for a graduate student in Shakespeare or Renaissance Studies.
for a graduate student who is writing a doctoral dissertation in Romantic studies, or who has written a promising essay in this field.
for this fellowship, preference is given to graduate students whose primary interest is 18th Century literature
Fellowships for outstanding graduate students in American Literature
for graduate fellowships in English Literature and Science
The Fellowship will be awarded annually to a graduate student who has successfully completed all required graduate coursework and Ph. D. examinations, and is actively researching and writing his or her dissertation. The area of concentration will be the study of dramatic texts, the study of dramatic texts in production or performance, and/or the history of theatrical productions of dramatic texts.
graduate students in the field of British Literature.
for outstanding American Literature graduate students in the Department of English, Bloomington campus.
for a graduate student in the Department of English.
for a graduate student pursuing doctoral studies. Strong preference should be given to a female student with financial need who most embodies the combination of scholarship, industry, and spirit that Susan possessed.
The College of Arts