Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $1,000 award.

Criteria

The student must submit a completed UCLA PhD dissertation on women and/or gender utilizing a historical perspective in either literature or the arts. If planning to file a doctoral dissertation by June 1, 2010, applicant is eligible pending verification of filing status.

To apply

The application must contain the following materials in hard copy only:

Two copies of each:

• George Eliot Dissertation Award Cover Sheet
• Dissertation Abstract (1 page)
• Completed Dissertation (double sided is acceptable)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Transcripts (unofficial copy is acceptable)

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from two faculty members (one of which must be
  from the candidate's chair, usually the nominating faculty member).
  The letters should be sealed in an envelope with the recommender’s signature
  across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Emily Susan Carman

Emily Susan Carman completed her Ph.D. in in the Cinema and Media Studies program in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media in Fall 2008. Her dissertation is entitled “Independent Stardoms: Female Film Star Labor, Agency, and the Studio System in the 1930s.” While her primary research expertise focuses on gender, stardom, and the American film industry, other scholarly interests include media industries, postwar European cinemas and moving image archive theory and practice. In 2009, she was a visiting lecturer in the Film and Media Studies Department at the UC Santa Barbara, the Liberal Studies Program at Antioch University, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design.

Alison Harvey

Alison Harvey currently holds a postdoctoral position in Humanities and English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her PhD in the Department of English at UCLA in 2007, with a dissertation entitled “Irish Realism: Literary History and National Politics, 1870-1922.”

Melissa Sodeman

Melissa Sodeman is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Coe College in Iowa. She completed her dissertation, “Wandering, Form, and the Sentimental Novel,” under the direction of Felicity A. Nussbaum in the Department of English at UCLA in 2007.

Nicole Horejsi

Nicole Horejsi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. Her dissertation is entitled “Contesting Neoclassicism: The Limits of Classical Tradition in the Eighteenth Century.”

Widerstand/Gegenstant: 19th-Century ‘Living Statues’ in Literature in German and the Emergence of Cinematic Spectatorship and of Psychoanalysis

Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb

Between Image and Identity: Fantasy, Transnational Trauma, and Feminist Misrecognition

Feminine Channeling: Technology, the Occult, and Women’s Meditation of Communications, 1870-1915

Inner Beauty: Feminine Appearance and Women's Fiction, 1800-1850

The Race Home: Difference and Domestic Space in American Literature and Culture