Awards and Prizes
Travel Awards
SLSA provides a limited number of travel awards for underfunded individuals attending the annual conference. Members of SLSA who participate in the annual conference may apply for travel subventions. An applicant should email name, title of SLSA presentation, any information about funding for the conference, and an indication of how long one has been a member to Carol Colatrella at carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu by September 1. SLSA officers will review the applications and approve funds for one to three individuals. Each person awarded funds will be presented with a check at the conference.
The Bruns Essay Prize
The Bruns Graduate Essay Prize, in honor of Edward F. Bruns, is awarded annually to the best essay written by a graduate student member of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Graduate students wishing to have their essays considered for the $250 prize should submit them by September 1 to N. Katherine Hayles, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, via electronic mail to hayles@humnet.ucla.edu. Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted.
The Schachterle Essay Prize
Lance Schachterle, founding president of the society, has established an annual prize of $250 in honor of his parents to recognize the best new essay on literature and science written in English by a nontenured scholar. Eligible authors wishing to submit essays (published or accepted for publication) should send them prior to September 1 to SLSA's Executive Director, Carol Colatrella, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology via electronic mail to carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu. Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted.
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize
SLSA holds an annual competition for the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize awarded each year to the best academic book on literature, science, and the arts published by an SLSA member. The prize will be announced at the annual SLSA conference.
Established in the fall of 2006 in memory of Michelle Kendrick of Washington State University-Vancouver, an energetic, well-loved scholar of literature and science and long-time member of SLSA, the Kendrick Prize is open to any book of original scholarship on literature, science, and the arts published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of the prior year. The winner will receive $250.00.
To be considered for this year's Kendrick Prize, please send three copies of your book by June 1 to:
Professor Robert Markley
Department of English
608 South Wright Street
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
Donations for the Kendrick Prize (checks made out to SLSA, with Kendrick Prize in memo) can be sent to
Carol Colatrella
SLSA Executive Director
LCC, Georgia Tech
686 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
Note: all of the awards described above are presented during the Business Meeting of the annual fall conference. One may submit only one entry to one of the two essay prize competitions.