Graduate Scholarships
Each year the Department of English awards more than $10,000 in competitive scholarships to graduate students in literature, creative writing, and linguistics. Our students also compete favorably for a variety of lucrative scholarships and fellowships available through public agencies and the Graduate School at Texas Tech. A complete listing of the latter is available at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/scholarships/.
The scholarships available to graduate students through the Department of English include:
- The Allan L. Carter & Olga Meloy Carter Memorial Scholarship, intended for a graduate student specializing in Medieval or Renaissance literature and exhibiting positive traits such as creativity, a talent for self-expression, enthusiasm, an ability to inspire others, and academic promise.
- The Benjamin Rude Memorial Scholarship, which recognizes academic achievement and positive personal attributes such as problem-solving, creativity, the ability to influence others, community service activities, and/or the ability to succeed in school despite health or financial problems.
- The William Bryan Gates Graduate Award in English, for a student exhibiting academic promise, creativity, a talent for self-expression, enthusiasm, good judgment, and an ability to inspire others.
- The Helen Locke Carter Memorial Scholarship, awarded each year to a student conducting innovative research in literacy, broadly defined.
- The Faculty-Alumni Graduate English Scholarship, given each year to an incoming graduate student (either M.A. or Ph.D.) who exhibits exceptional promise as a member of the profession.
- The George T. Prigmore Graduate English Scholarship, for a student who has expressed a commitment to teaching English language and literature at the secondary or post-secondary level and who exhibits positive traits like creativity, a talent for self-expression, enthusiasm, good judgment, and an ability to inspire others.
- The Mary Sue Carlock/Joyce Thompson Graduate English Scholarship, intended for a female graduate student specializing in American literature.