Application Deadline: Friday, February 18, 2022, by 11:59 PM.

Eligibility: Doctoral Students studying subjects related to New American Poetry at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

The Center for the Humanities is grateful to announce that Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative will offer Lost & Found Archival Research Grants (LFARG) again in 2022 through the generous support of the Early Research Initiative at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Engaging the Senses Foundation.

LFARG are for GC doctoral students conducting archival research on writers, artists, and musicians whose contributions to New American Poetry remain understudied. Recipients will receive grants that further archival research, writing, and editing en route to a publication project for Lost & Found, a blog post about the research process on Distributaries, or some other format.

While focusing on poetry and poetics, Lost & Found continues to expand our range of focus into other art forms including music, performing arts, and the visual arts, particularly in the context of specific historical moments of great synergy. In addition, while our concentration is on 20th century cultural figures, we are interested in work those figures have done that focuses on past historical moments or figures as well as work in other areas, such as political or pedagogical activism: we have published, for example, poet Jack Spicer’s translation of Beowulf; poet Diane di Prima’s lecture notes on English Romantic poet Percey Shelley; Argentinian novelist Julio Cortázar’s work on John Keats; Muriel Rukeyser’s translations of Rimbaud and her writing on Charles Darwin; we have also published syllabi, memoranda, class notes and manifestos by former CUNY professors such as Toni Cade Bambara, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and Adrienne Rich, as well as position papers and proposals by groundbreaking Native American scholar and poet Jack D. Forbes. The Lost & Found Archival Research Grant is for students in all disciplines who are currently developing or seeking to develop archival research in or around 20th century poetry, poetics or other art forms as outlined above, and will range from $1,000 to $3,000.

*For CUNY Students: Before applying, please contact the office of financial aid at your campus to ensure that you are eligible to receive this funding without it adversely impacting your existing financial aid package. In your email to them, please include the fellowship amount, the semester you would receive it, and your EMPL ID, which you can find in CUNYFirst under Student Center.”

Important considerations and application guidelines:

1) Please note that current CUNY guidelines restrict the distribution of funds for travel outside of the state unless the recipient has received prior approval for their travel plans. While we maintain hope that conditions will improve by the summer, any award winner who proposes either domestic or international travel will need to attain permission for their trip prior to being able to access these grant funds. Click here for more information.

2) Note: if your proposal involves travel, please indicate your contingency plans for conducting your research if travel is not permitted (up to 250 words).

3) Before applying, we urge you to familiarize yourself with the range of our work on our website to determine if your project makes sense in the context of our mission. Please feel free to make inquiries as well at: ch@gc.cuny.edu.

How to Apply

Click here to fill out the Application Form.

The 2022 Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Archival Research Grants were made possible by generous support from the Early Research Initiative at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and co-sponsored by The Office of the Provost at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and with generous support from Engaging the Senses Foundation.

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