Travel Awards

BWWA Travel Awards

As part of its mission to encourage conference participation by early-career scholars and precarious academic workers, the British Women Writers Association offers four travel awards of up to $500 (pending availability of funds) to help defray the costs of travel for BWWC participants. These awards are offered for the following categories:

  • Independent Scholar/Contingent Faculty Travel Award
  • Graduate Student Travel Awards for work in the following periods:
    • early to mid 18th-century
    • late 18th-century to early 19th-century 
    • mid 19th-century to early 20th-century (The Pam Corpron Parker Memorial Travel Award)

Graduate students, independent scholars, and contingent faculty are invited to apply for a BWWA travel award for the annual BWWC. The deadline for travel grant submissions varies each year.

To qualify for a BWWA travel award, applicants must:

  • Be currently enrolled as a full-time graduate student;
  • Be currently employed in a non-tenured, part-time, or adjunct position; or
  • Have completed their doctorate within the last ten years and be unaffiliated with any university.

Travel Award applications for BWWC 2026 are due April 1, 2026. You can apply for these awards using this form.

Past Winners

Please see a list of the 2025 travel award winners below. Congratulations to all winners!

Heather Nelson (Western Colorado University) receives the Independent Scholar/Contingent Faculty Travel Award for her paper “‘How Could I Know What Would Come?’: Consent, Abuse, and ‘Janet’s Repentance’” from BWWA Treasurer Caitlin Anderson.

Jahyeon Kwon (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) receives the Graduate Student Travel Award for work in the early to mid-18th century. Her paper is titled “The Old World’s Aesthetics in the New World’s Violence in Oroonoko.”

Christel Woods (Washington State University) receives the Graduate Student Travel Awards for work in the late 18th century to early 19th century for her paper “Flowers Buried Beneath the Bog.”

Prabal Das Gupta (Michigan State University) receives The Pam Corpron Parker Memorial Travel Award for work in the mid-19th century to early 20th century for his paper “Domestic Space and Female Subjectivity in Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters: A Study of Historical Novel in Context.”