How to Identify, Apply for, and Win Grants and Fellowships with Benjy Kahan, Professor of English

This talk will guide you through every aspect of the process of applying for and winning grants and fellowships. Because these prestigious awards offer crucial support for research as well as much-needed writing time and funding, they can provide a real boost for academic careers at any stage. Professor Kahan will teach you a host of strategies for crafting your applications. These techniques will also help you to articulate and sharpen your larger intellectual projects and take them in new directions.

Benjamin Kahan is a Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Louisiana State University. He has held fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Sydney, the National Humanities Center, the Reed Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (Duke, 2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality (Chicago, 2019). He is also the editor of Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality (Cornell, 2016), The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (under contract with Cambridge), and a co-editor of Theory Q, a book series from Duke University Press. He holds a PhD from UPenn.

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