Research Resources and Support

• NYPL:
  • The Humanities & Social Sciences Library of the New York Public Library, at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, has extensive research collections available to scholars. Graduate Center students can gain access to the Wertheim reading room at the New York Public Library, at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, which will allow them for a period of time to have a carrel at the library where they can store books ordered up from the NYPL collection.
    The CATNYP online catalogue is available at CATNYP.
  • Remarkable resources for the study of African American literature and culture are available at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Mina Rees Library:
  • The Graduate Center library is the Mina Rees Library. Material from any CUNY college library can be ordered using CLICS. For books not owned by the CUNY library system, use interlibrary loan, ILL. The library Website hosts a wide range of databases, which can now be accessed from home using your GC i.d. The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room in Mina Rees houses much rare material.
  • Other CUNY and New York-based libraries are accessible through the library's RESEARCH links. One unique collection, housed at Queens College, is the Louis Armstrong Archives.
• For materials housed only at NYU or Columbia, students can receive a METRO referral card from the second-floor reference desk in Mina Reese. The NYU BOBCAT and Columbia CLIO catalogues are available online.
• Other special collections are housed at the Pierpont Morgan Library, Poets House, and the New York Historical Society.
• A fuller guide, "Library Resources in the Greater New York Area for the Study of English and American Literature," compiled by students in the Ph.D. Program, is available in the English Program office.

• Graduate Center grants and fellowships

  • English Program Dissertation Fellowships
    Each year the English program awards a number of one-year fellowships to support students writing their dissertations.
  • English Program Dissertation and Prospectus Prizes
  • Graduate Center Awards
  • Travel Grants
  • Doctoral Research Grant Program
• External grants in the humanities
  • American Association for University Women (AAUW)
  • Fulbright grants for research abroad for doctoral dissertations and faculty
  • Fulbright teaching grants
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • SSRC grants
  • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
  • Postdoctoral fellowship information
    check the Berkeley list of fellowships and also do a Google search for "Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship"