Every year, the Transliteratures project offers graduate students in foreign literatures a number of small travel grants intended to encourage intellectual interest and some degree of research activity in foreign literatures other than the one they specialize in.
The grants are meant to help cover travel expenses incurred by students, either with respect to a research project, or when giving a paper at a professional meeting held in another academic institution - when the paper or the research project touches to some degree upon a foreign literature or culture other than the student's primary one.
Eligibility for Transliteratures travel grants is restricted to graduate students registered in Classics, Comparative Literature, French, German, Italian, or Spanish/Portuguese. The selection of the recipients of the Transliteratures travel grants is internal to each program, and interested students need to apply for support in their own program. Supporting documentation will be a copy of the official invitation, in the case of a lecture, or, when the travel is research-related, a copy of the student's project proposal, as well as, normally, documents indicating that the student applied for outside funds as well.
In 2002-2003, a maximum of $800 will be allocated to each participating program. Normally, individual grants will not exceed $250, but combination with other sources of support is encouraged. Transliteratures money can be given only against original travel receipts and official documentation regarding the concerned event. Travel must have taken place between June 1, 2002, and May 31, 2003.