African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant

Deadline Extended: July 7, 2023

The African Poetry Digital Portal Project funded by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation invites proposals from scholars and researchers for the African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant. A grant of $15,000 for the 2023-2024 academic year will support Digital Humanities research in African Poetry. Projects must use digital research methods or encompass scholarship that applies computing technologies in humanistic inquiry. Applicants are encouraged to use Portal resources to help expand the impact of the Portal in the broader community of African Digital Humanities Scholarship. Most importantly, African Poetry must be at the center of the research.

The African Poetry Digital Portal documents the work of African poets and provides equitable digital access to the related creative and intellectual artifacts, materials and research on the subject of African Poetry, housed in academic and cultural institutions in Africa and its Diaspora, to, among other things, create accessible ways to engender an informed, culturally diverse, civically engaged and responsible society.

The online application submission is available through Submittable, and you can find more details about the grant along with a link to create an account for submission on the official website at: https://africanpoetrybookfund.submittable.com/submit/225152/african-poetry-digital-portal-digital-humanities-grant.