In honor of past president George Mills Harper, SAMLA maintains the Harper Fund to provide graduate students with travel funds to attend the annual conference. You can donate to the Harper Fund via our membership and registration forms.
Professor Harper’s academic career spanned over 50 years, and he provided exceptional leadership and service to the association. From his early years on the family farm in the Ozarks to his matriculation from Culver-Stockton College to UNC-Chapel Hill to his later chairmanship of the English Department at Florida State University, Harper concentrated his writing and research efforts in Irish studies, particularly focusing on W. B. Yeats. In 1981, Dr. Harper received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin in recognition for his critical work in studying Yeats and the occult.
To donate, please login to your Ballast account. Once logged in, you will see a “Donations” button in the top menu, and you can select from the Donation options. You can also donate to the Harper Fund via the Membership and Registration forms, which are found through your Ballast dashboard.
Eligibility Requirements
- To be eligible to receive this award, graduate students must: 1) be presenting at the current year’s conference, 2) establish or renew their SAMLA membership, 3) register for the conference.
- Winners of the Harper Fund Award must attend the conference in order to receive award funds. Winners who ultimately cannot attend should notify SAMLA as soon as possible.
To apply, please send an email to samla@gsu.edu no later than July 31, 2024 that includes your name, affiliation, email, your current graduate degree program, your accepted conference abstract with title, the prospective conference panel title, your CV, and a statement of support of your application.
Please consider the “Statement in Support of Application” a space to describe your project in greater detail, your financial needs, and anything else you would like the Award Committee to consider.
SAMLA invites applications in all languages but asks that accompanying English translations are provided so that the entire Committee can review all submitted materials as equably as possible.
SAMLA 95 Award Winners
Winner
Nasanin Rosado DeRodes, Duke University
“Womb as Grammar: The Cri in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of
Salem”
Honorable Mention
Luciana Santos, Federal University of Santa Catarina
“’We become it!’: Ellen Forney’s Marbles as an Example of the Relevance of
Graphic Medicine
