Announcing Travel Grants Awarded For the 2022 International Melville Society Conference
13th International Melville Society Conference: “Melville’s Energies: Aesthetics, Politics, Ecologies”
Paris, France
June 27-30, 2022
An Announcement from the Travel Awards Committee:
I'm writing with heartfelt thanks to everyone who was able to donate to our Melville Society Travel Awards Fund. Thanks to you we were able to give seven $350 grants paired with waived conference registration fees—$500 packages (on average) and far more than the three awards we initially projected. We are thrilled to be able to support so many people's work, and we would like to congratulate our winners: K.L. Evans, Adam Fales, Yui Kasane, Samuel Moriarty, Chris Rice, Justina Torrance, and Tom Truss.
There were, of course, more applicants than we could afford to support this year. And while we intend to continue this program in 2024, we expect to receive even more applications as both the job market in American Literature and pools of travel funding continue to decline. To that end: we are keeping the travel fund open to build a base for future awards. If you are able to donate—now or in the future—please visit our Fundly page: https://fundly.com/melville-society-travel-awards-paris-2022.
Congratulations to our travel awards recipients! Apologies to all the applicants that we were unable to fund this year. (We wish that every student, adjunct, and independent scholar were able to receive conference funding.) And many thanks, again, to the donors who made this possible, especially members of the Melville’s Energies Organizing Committee, which generously waived registration fees for a number of our winners.
All the best,
The Travel Awards Committee
(Meredith Farmer, Wyn Kelley, and Ed Sugden)
