Assistance for Graduate Students Attending the January 2025 Convention

The Executive Council has voted to allot funds to provide partial travel reimbursement of $400 to graduate students who are current MLA members and will travel to the annual MLA convention to attend preconvention workshops, sessions in their areas of scholarly interest, meetings with job counselors, or interviews. Graduate students are eligible to receive MLA convention grants only once during their graduate school tenure. The council is particularly concerned with helping students who have no support for convention attendance from their institutions or other sources, who incur substantial costs for travel to and from the convention, and who have never received an MLA convention grant of any kind. Funds are available to cover a limited number of awards.

Members may apply online from early September through 1 November. Members are expected to request matching funds from their departments or institutions by using a letter provided by the MLA. For further information, write the office of programs (awards@mla.org).

Those who wish to donate money to a professional education assistance fund that will provide ongoing support for these attendance reimbursements may do so online or on their MLA membership renewal form. 

MLA members who serve on council-appointed standing committees or on the Delegate Assembly may apply for an MLA convention grant each year of their term. Only those who meet all eligibility requirements can receive a grant. To apply for a grant, these members should write to awards@mla.org.

Limited funding is available to support attendance for waived nonmember participants who need financial assistance. Graduate students who are waived nonmembers and have registered for the January 2025 convention may apply for registration reimbursement. For more information and to apply, please contact awards@mla.org. The deadline for applications is 1 November.