Graduate funding and awards database: Program: Arts: English

  • One award for the best submission of either prose or poetry. It is a voluntary entry award.  Students submit their work to the department for consideration.

  • Up to five awards, normally valued at $1,000 each, are provided to undergraduate and graduate students registered full-time in any year in the Faculty of Arts, excluding the School of Accounting and Finance, at the University of Waterloo.

  • Two Awards, valued at a minimum of $150 each, will be awarded annually.

  • A scholarship will be provided annually to full-time graduate students registered in the Master’s or Doctoral program in the Department of English language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts on the basis of academic excellence (minimum 80%). Students will be chosen by the Associate Chair for Gradate Studies in English Language and Literature, in consultation with the Department Graduate Committee.

  • A scholarship valued at $2,500, will be awarded annually to a graduate student registered full-time in the Faculty of Mathematics or the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo with a demonstrated area of interest in computational rhetoric, computational analysis and/or generation of rhetoric and persuasive text.

  • Mentoring or supervising professors will nominate outstanding student teachers.

  • Two awards, each valued at $400, will be given annually to graduate students who are or who have been registered full-time in the Department of English Language and Literature within the past calendar year.

  • Mentoring or supervising professors will nominate outstanding student teachers in the English department.

  • Awards are available to full-time Faculty of Arts graduate students enrolled in a research-based masters or PhD program.

  • The Faculty of Arts Departmental Graduate Scholarships have been established to administer graduate student funding contributions received as part of the graduate funding package in Arts.

  • The Faculty of Arts Graduate Award has been established to provide financial support to eligible students as part of their graduate funding package in the Faculty of Arts.

  • Through a commitment of financial support from the Faculty of Arts, awards are available to encourage full-time and part-time graduate students to present their own research (oral, poster, paper) at an academic conference and engage in academic dialogue within their field of study and research.

  • This scholarship valued at $5,000 will be awarded every other year to a full-time University of Waterloo graduate student in the Department of English Language and Literature with a focus on Literary, Rhetorical, or Digital-Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts.

  • This award is administered by English department. Selection is based on performance in Master's and Doctoral English programs in the Faculty of Arts.

  • One award, valued at $400, will be given annually to a graduate student who is or who has been registered full time in the Department of English Language and literature within the past calendar year.

  • The CGS Committee for the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities requests nominations annually. Gustave O. Arlt (1895-1986) was the first president of the Council of Graduate Schools, former faculty member and Dean of the Graduate School at UCLA, and a scholar of German language and literature. In 1971 he established the award that bears his name to provide recognition, each year, to a young scholar who has written a book that represents an outstanding contribution to scholarship in the humanities.

  • Jack Gray is a deceased former faculty member in English who donated substantially to the Graduate Scholarship in English fund and is honoured with a yearly award from that fund.

    This award is given out once a year to a student with the highest average which is not receiving any external awards. It is paid out in the Fall term but presented at an awards ceremony that usually takes place in March each year.

  • A scholarship will be provided annually to full-time graduate students registered in the Master’s or Doctoral program in the Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts on the basis of academic excellence (minimum 80%) and merit of professionalization activities (e.g. research travel costs or conference attendance). Students will be chosen by the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature, in consultation with the Department Graduate Committee. This fund is made possible by a donation from David Clarence Nimmo in memory of his late wife Lea Vogel-Nimmo who, via the generosity of others, was given opportunities to develop her artistic talent and reach her professional goals.

  • Up to five awards, normally valued at $1,000 each, are provided to undergraduate and graduate students registered full-time in any year in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo.

  • In 2002, Mary Bales, MA English 1972, MA Philosophy 1973 and 2002 recipient of the Arts Alumni Achievement Award, established a scholarship for graduate students in the Faculty of Arts.

  • This scholarship will be used to enhance external scholarships like Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS),and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).

  • One scholarship with a value of at least $1,800, will be awarded annually to a graduate student registered full time in the Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts. Selection will be made by the Department based on academic excellence (minimum 80% cumulative average) without the need for a specific scholarship application.

  • The Warren Ober Awards for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student may be granted to graduate students who have made significant contributions to teaching within the Faculty of Arts.

  • The Wayne C. Fox scholarship was established to attract the very best students to the Faculty of Arts and to recognize the achievements of outstanding young scholars.

  • The Wayne C. Fox scholarship was established to attract the very best students to the Faculty of Arts and to recognize the achievements of outstanding young scholars.