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The Society offers a scholarship in honor of the late Gloria Flaherty, the accomplished scholar and founding member of the Goethe Society, "to provide financial aid to worthy undergraduate and/ or graduate students who wish to further their education in areas related to the interests promoted by the society." We urge members to encourage their best students to apply. The guidelines appear below.

The Society also offers an annual essay prize, which carries an award of $250. The Guidelines for submission appear below.

March 11, 2008

The GSNA Essay Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding piece of scholarship on Goethe and his times which has been published during the previous year. This year’s award goes to Andrew Piper for his article “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything,” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124-138. Congratulations to Andrew!
           
Unfortunately, we received no formal applications last year for the Gloria Flaherty Scholarship. Please encourage your best students to apply. Details and guidelines for submission can be found below.
  

March 11, 2008

Guidelines

Several years ago, the GSNA Board of Directors drafted guidelines for the Gloria Flaherty Scholarship and appointed the Directors-at-Large as the scholarship committee. One or two prizes of up to $500 each in travel funds will be given annually to students working on Goethe and/or the Age of Goethe. There are two categories for the competition: 1) Money for travel required by a research project on Goethe and/or the Age of Goethe; 2) Money for travel to present a paper on Goethe and/or his Age. The Society is not bound to present a prize in either category in any given year. "Age of Goethe" has its normal, relatively narrow range of meaning. It refers not merely to a specific period of historical time, but also to the existence of reasonably clear paths of association with Goethe's person, works, interest, or activities. Students who will either deliver a paper or complete a research project before receiving a doctoral degree are eligible.

Application procedure:

Since we have not been receiving nominations in the past two years, the board has decided to award this year's Flaherty Scholarship to the top 3-4 applicants for our dissertation workshop to be held at the “Goethe and the Post-Classical” Conference, 6-9 November. Graduate students writing a Goethe-era dissertation have until March 31 to send Simon Richter, Clark Muenzer, and Karin Schutjer a copy of their dissertation prospectus along with a letter of nomination from their dissertation advisor. For postal addresses see Officers.
 

March 11, 2008

Call for Submissions

The executive committee seeks nominations or self-nominations for its annual essay prize, which carries an award of $250. Please submit four copies of your choice for the best essay published in the year 2007 on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures by

May 31, 2008 to:

Professor Simon Richter
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
745 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Email: srichter@sas.upenn.edu