2025 Lost & Found Archival Research Grants
Deadline
February 20, 2025
at 11:59 PM
Application Deadline: Thursday, February 20, 2025, by 11:59 PM.
Eligibility: Doctoral Students studying subjects related to New American Poetry at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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 2025, along with our new Completion Grants for projects that have reached the publication stage, through the generous support of the Early Research Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center, 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 grounded in poetry and poetics, Lost & Found continues to expand our range to better integrate other art forms including music, performing arts, and the visual arts into the field of poetry studies. Our concentration is on 20th century cultural figures, but we are interested in presenting work that encompasses their political, pedagogical, and activist commitments, deepening and complicating common understandings of past historical and cultural moments. For example, we have 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. We have also published 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.
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 $500 to $3,000.
Completion Grants
The Lost & Found Completion Grants are for CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students in all disciplines whose research has reached or is ready for the publication stage, and will range from $500 to $3,000.Candidates for this grant are ideally current Lost & Found Fellows who have been in conversation with the L&F editorial team about their research projects and proposed publications. Applicants should be prepared to usher their work towards a Lost & Found chapbook or Elsewhere publication. Throughout the grant period candidates will be carefully guided through the publication process. As a publication with a mission to prepare editors to enter the field with the professional skills necessary to advocate for their work, we also offer guidance on pitching publications, crafting book proposals, connecting with allies and peers, and planning promotional strategy.
*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) If your project requires international or out of state travel, please check the CUNY Travel Guidelines for any approval requirements or permissions necessary for your trip prior to accessing these grant funds. Click here for more information.
2) 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, you can also read last year’s L&F Archival Research Fellows and Projects here. Please feel free to make inquiries as well at: [email protected].
How to Apply
The 2024 Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Archival Research Grants were made possible by generous support from the Early Research Initiativeat the CUNY Graduate Center, and co-sponsored by The Office of the Provost, and with generous support from Engaging the Senses Foundation.
2024 L&F Fellows and Projects
Related
Presentation
Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects