Project Grant 18876215222

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will provide $120,000.00 to Le Moyne College to support the creation of a course called "Publishing Today." The course will reinvigorate interest in English Literature majors by educating students on the current publishing industry landscape. It will feature guest speakers and experts from...

The Library of America, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, will produce 400 Years of Latino Poetry, a $1,698,898 project grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The initiative includes publishing a groundbreaking anthology of Latino poetry spanning 400 years; public programs and conversations with literary scholars, poets, and historians across...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $1,129,355 Project Grant to the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival Charitable Trust through the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to host two U.S.-based authors, Jason Reynolds and Colson Whitehead, and a reception at the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival from May 16-21. The Trust will deliver cultural diplomacy and inform/influence New Zealand publics by bringing the two acclaimed American authors to...

The University of Florida will receive $460,260 under a Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the University Press of Florida's publications in African American and Latin American studies from December 2021 through June 2023. The funding will retain four positions and create seven new staff roles focused on acquisitions, promotions, and outreach to help the Press return to pre-pandemic levels of...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation to support personnel expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the Foundation's operations from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support...

The University of Chicago received a $298,954 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.161 - Promotion of the Humanities Research) to produce the first accurate, annotated, and illustrated English translation of Pu Songling's "Liaozhai's Chronicles of the Strange." This collection of nearly 500 Chinese literary tales from 1766 is highly influential but remains largely inaccessible to non-Chinese-reading audiences. The project aims to make this...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grant to Literary Arts Inc., doing business as Portland Arts & Lectures, to renovate their new building located at 716 SE Grand in Portland, Oregon. The renovations will create additional classroom, event, community, and staff workspace, allowing Literary Arts to expand its literary and humanities programming. Planned improvements include a new bookstore, coffee bar, multi-purpose area...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $328,257 Project Grant on January 1, 2026 to Coda Media Inc. in New York under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support a podcast and broadcast series examining how translations of the Bible have transformed cultures in the Americas and around the world, referred to as "The World's Most Translated Text". This public humanities program aims to engage the general public with scholarly...

This federal Project Grant award of $195,669.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the translation and dissemination of the works of Rokhl Brokhes, an early 20th century Yiddish woman writer. The project aims to recover Brokhes' literary legacy, which was nearly lost due to the Nazi invasion of Minsk in 1941, when plans to publish her collected stories, novellas, and plays were abandoned after her murder....

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160) provides $60,000 to support the completion of an individual book project examining the material, political, and environmental history of papermaking in post-colonial Mexico from independence to the contemporary era. The grant recipient, based in Statesboro, Georgia, will produce a manuscript analyzing how paper became an essential...