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The Jeffrey Walker Early American Studies Scholarship
$200 for the best unpublished scholarly or critical essay dealing with American literary or cultural history through James Fenimore Cooper.
The following rules apply:
- Competition for the scholarships is open to English graduate students currently enrolled at OSU.
- Essays should range in length from ten to forty pages of double-spaced typescript. The cover-page should contain the title of the essay and the scholarship for which it is submitted. The name of the contestant should not appear in the essay or on the title page.
- Each entry must have clipped to it a sheet of paper indicating the name of the essay and the scholarship for which the essay is submitted. It should also indicate the name of the author, the author’s address, phone number and CWID. This is the only place where the name of the author should appear
- Students should submit no more than one essay for each scholarship, though they may submit for multiple scholarships. Students who choose to submit essays for multiple scholarships must submit different entries.
- The essays will be judged for originality, tenability, significance, and cogency of organization and prose style. Essays submitted for these prizes will be judged by a committee of graduate faculty.
Application materials should be placed in JuDean Scott's mailbox in 205 Morrill Hall. See the main English Department Scholarship page for application deadlines.
Winners will be announced in January. Funding for these scholarships is made available through the Gladys S. Lewis Literary Studies Endowment Fund.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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