There are a variety of types of financial aid available to Ph.D. students. 

• Tuition fellowships 
• Graduate assistantships 
  • Unsung Master's Graduate Assistantship
  • Media and Moving Image Graduate Assistantship
  • Graduate Student Editor of FORWARD, the English Department newsletter 
• Department dissertation awards
  • Herendeen Award for Scholarly Publication
  • Judkins Dissertation Progress Grant to Advance Anti-Racist Projects
  • Perrin Dissertation Prize for Research in American Literary Feminism and Gender Studies
  • Zamora Dissertation Completion Award
• University awards
  • The Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • Nomination for Presidential Fellowships