Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for institutional development, and for a program of technical assistance to literary presses and magazines

General Support

for institutional development and to gather, analyze, and distribute information and publications related to literary publishing

Literary Publishing

to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

to provide supplemental support for the Literary Arts Emergency Fund's data platforms

Literary Arts Emergency Fund Supplemental Grant

to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Nonprofit Literary Arts Organizations

for institutional development and to improve the Council's capacity to gather, analyze, and distribute information related to nonprofit literary organizations

Institutional Development

to support costs of completing specific aspects of institutional development

in renewed support of a program to enable the Council to provide publication awards to member presses of the Association of American University Presses

University Presses

to support research on the marketing practices of university presses

University Presses Marketing Practices

to support costs of technical assistance to nine literary presses by administering a loan fund and for gathering and analyzing data on independent literary presses

to improve its publishing operations and organizational capacities, within a selective program to assist nine literary presses

to support planning for the future of the organization's archive through assessment of Lambda's holdings and the potential ways it may support the existing network of queer literary archives

Future Memory: Literary Archives

to improve the effectiveness of its operations, within a selective program to assist nine independent literary presses

Literary Publishing 

for costs of technical assistance to literary presses, of administering a loan fund, of managing a short-term sabbatical program for publishers, and of creating a financial handbook for use by nonprofit literary publishers

Literary Press Assistance

to support the development of capacities at university presses for the publication of digital monographs

Collaborative Services Platform for University Presses

to support the development of a tool that would enable scholarly presses to determine the full costs of ebook production

Creation of a Digital Monograph P+L

to support an exploration of the opportunities and challenges associated with creating a shared “virtual reading room” for literary archives

The Virtual Reading Room: Consortia Access to Digitized Literary and Poetry Archives

to support the creation of a high-quality literary journal which will publish works by incarcerated writers and be staffed by incarcerated editors

Beyond Bars: A Literary Magazine by and for the Incarcerated and Their Support Communities

toward costs of its literary publishing program

toward costs of planning and development of the Literary Publishers Alliance

Literary Publishers Alliance

to support its literary translation program and to design and implement an accounting program

toward initial costs of a National Council on Foreign Language and International Studies

National Council on Foreign Language and International Capability

to support the planning of a discovery and marketing
platform for US university presses

Planning for UPScope Platform

to support the establishment of a Summer English Institute in Literary and Cultural Studies

Summer Institute in Literary and Cultural Studies

in support of planning for an ongoing program of data collection and analysis and for an update of a previous report on university press publishing

Data Collection and Analysis

for use toward the non-production costs of establishing a literary translation publishing program

Literary Translation Publishing

to renew support for the Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies

to support the new literary publishing program of Island Press

Literary Publishing - Shearwater Books

to support planning for the future of Small Press Traffic's archives

Small Press Traffic Literary Archives

in support of its U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project

U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project

to support the creation of a scholarly journal in California studies titled Global California, and an annual conference in this emerging field

Strengthening University Presses 

to support a publishing initiative on the history of science

Strengthening University Presses

to enable the Council to provide publication subsidies to member presses of the American Association of University Presses

Scholarly Publications

toward costs of its theater documentation project

Theater Documentation

for a study of the relationship between commercial and nonprofit literary publishing

Literary Publishing Study

to support research, editorial, and related costs for publishing projects consistent with the core mission of the Library of America series

Library of America

Council on Solar Biofuels

to support an enhanced program of annual data collection and analysis on the state of university press publishing

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

for a program to place volumes of The Library of America series in public libraries

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 