Institute of World Languages
Institute of World Languages

Faculty Fellows

Institute of World Languages Faculty Fellowships 

2025-2026 Call for Proposals 

Duration: summer 2025-spring 2026 

Award Amount: $5000 

Proposal deadline: April 4, 2025 

Purpose 

In keeping with the mission of the Institute of World Languages to strengthen research and develop initiatives in world language literacy at UVA, the IWL welcomes proposals for yearlong Institute Fellowships to develop pedagogical, research, or community projects that will broaden and deepen language learning at UVA and benefit the language community.  

The IWL believes that language is inseparable from literary and cultural study, integral to other disciplines, and inherently interdisciplinary. We welcome projects in particular that will expand the scope of language study into other disciplines and promote awareness of how languages intersect with other fields through research and teaching. We invite all projects but will prioritize projects that incorporate cross-disciplinary exploration.  

Eligibility 
All full-time faculty with a continuing contract of any rank, including lecturer and general faculty, who are engaged in the teaching of any world language at UVA, are welcome to apply for this grant. Part-time faculty members are not eligible to apply.  

Award

  • The grant maximum is $5,000 per year.  

  • Two awards will be given in the 2025-2026 year.  

  • The award may be used for summer 2025 wages (maximum $3000), project development, travel, conference fees, graduate assistants, materials, or other expenses related to the project. 

  • IWL Fellows are required to meet as a group once per semester and to present their project at the Faculty Retreat in May 2026. 

  • IWL Fellows are asked to serve as mentors for fellows in the year following their fellowship (26-27)   

Funding restrictions 

  • The award period is for one academic year only (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026) and money must be spent by June 15, 2026. 

  • If taking the grant as summer wages, faculty must bear in mind that total pay from all sources for the summer period may not exceed 1/3 of the faculty member’s salary during the prior academic year. 

Application Deadline: The deadline to apply for IWL Fellowship is April 4, 2025.  

Proposal Guidelines  

  1. The proposal should not exceed two pages, excluding the budget, CV, and letter of support. Please include in your proposal the following: a) an abstract of the project including basic scholarly questions guiding the project and goals of the activity, previous relevant work and/or relevance of the project to the program, department, university, community, and/or disciplinary field, b) methodology including a detailed plan and a timeline, and c) a justification of the project, its relevance to the overall mission of the IWL and how it will benefit UVA. 

  2. Include a tabular budget with specific line items. For example, indicate costs for data collection, assistance with data analysis, materials, consultation fees, etc. If money is to be used for wages, the budget must include the Fringe Benefit portion of any employee and student wage (i.e., 0.06% of the wages). For example, if your proposed budget is $998.58, it will be $943 in wages and $56.58 in Fringe Benefits. 

  3. A CV (two-page maximum). 

  4. A brief letter of support from the language program director, director of undergraduate studies, or department chair. 

Submission: Please save your application as one PDF file named as the following: “LASTNAME_IWLFellow_2025” and submit to Pimonwan Kamjan at wdd2vc@virginia.edu. 

Notification: Applications will be notified of award decisions by May 2, 2025.   

Any questions about the program may be directed to Director of the Institute of World Languages, Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Hall, ebh3f@virginia.edu