The Midwest Modern Language Association collaborates with Chicago's Newberry Library to fund an annual short-term fellowship for PhD candidates or post-doctoral scholars. The fellowship provides support for one month in residence at the Newberry and a $2500 stipend. Applicants must be current members of the MMLA and demonstrate a specific need for the library's collection. At the Newberry's request, applicants must live outside Chicago. 

 

The fellowship must be used continuously (that is, without interruption), and the period for using it runs from June of the awarded year through August of the next year, giving the fellow two summers and the academic year between them in which to schedule a month in residence at the Newberry.  The application deadline is December 15.

 

To review the application procedures, please visit the Newberry's How to Apply webpage. If you have additional questions after referencing the Newberry's guidelines for applying, please email research@newberry.org.

 

To learn more about the projects of past MMLA-Newberry fellows, please select the corresponding links below.

 

Year	Recipient
2023	Marc Blanc, Washington University in St. Louis
2022	Dr. Julia Randel, University of Dayton
2021	Dr. Cynthia Smith, Independent Scholar
2020	Dr. Lino Mioni, Washington University in St. Louis
2019	Dr. Cynthia Smith, (deferred to 2021)
2018	Dr. Eric MacPhail, Indiana University
2017	Dr. John Garrison, Grinnell College
2016	Dr. Rebecca Janzen, University of South Carolina
2015	Marie Glon, Université de Lille
2014	Dr. Justine Murison, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign