To make the process of finding scholarships easier, the Financial Aid Office has developed a tool called Scholarship Finder that you can use to search for awards across campus.
Scholarships and Awards for Undergraduates
The English Department offers a variety of awards to students in all areas of English Studies. In addition, the University offers a "Scholarship Finder" tool to find information about the various scholarships that are available across campus.
Applications for all English Department awards and scholarships are due in the English Department office (STV 409) no later than April 1.
Finding Scholarships Across Campus
English Department Scholarships
Click on the links below for more information about schoalarships, requirements, and entry forms.
All entries must be typed and submitted with a cover page stating your name, university identification number, major, e-mail address, local phone number, and address. Entries are due by April 1.
Anna Keaton English Scholarship
Applicants must be upper division students in the English Department.
Anna Keaton English Scholarship Application
Class of 1939 Ruth Henline Scholarship in English Education
Applicants must be planning to teach in the spring of the following year in which they apply.
Class of 1939 Ruth Henline Scholarship Application
Glenn Grever English Education Scholarship
Applicants must be senior English Education majors and either have completed student teaching or be student teaching during the semester the scholarship is awarded.
Glenn Grever English Education Scholarship Application
The Grammie
Applicants must be upper-division students in English who have been enrolled in a Linguistics course during the academic year the award is given.
Excellence in ESL Award
Applicants must be students in English. Further Information is available from the English Language Institute.
Phone: (309) 438-2072
George R. Canning Scholarship
Applicants must be students in Literary and Cultural Studies.
George R. Canning Scholarship Application
Julia N. Visor Scholarship Award
Applicants must be students in English and submit an essay researching issues of race relations, colonialism, and cultural diversity in any sub-discipline of English Studies.
Julia N. Visor Scholarship Application
Brome Creative Writing Award
Applicants must be seniors in the English Department during the academic year for which the award is given.
Brome Creative Writing Award Application
Dorothy Bryan Schemske Scholarship
Applicants must be upper division English Education majors.
Dorothy Bryan Schemske Scholarship Application
Publications Unit Publishing Award
Applicants must be enrolled in good standing in the Publishing Studies program.
Publications Unit Publishing Award Application
Maurice Scharton Scholarship
Applicants must be upper division students in English.
Maurice Scharton Scholarship Application
Tom Kuster Creative Writing Award
Applicants must be enrolled in a program in the English Department.
Tom Kuster Creative Writing Award Application
William Morgan Poetry Award
Applicants must be enrolled in a program in the English Department.
William Morgan Poetry Award Application
Taimi Maria Ranta Children’s and Young Adult Literature Scholarship
Applicants must be enrolled in or intending to focus on Children's Literary and Cultural studies.
Taimi Maria Ranta Scholarship Application