Matching Grants Awards 2026 – Results of Round 1

The AILC-ICLA awards 10 grants of up to 250 USD each in two rounds annually, for academic events organised by and/or benefitting Early Career Researchers. The following members of the AILC-ICLA have been awarded Matching Grants in Round 1 of 2026:

• Liliane Ehrhart (postdoctoral researcher UQAM, Département d’études littéraires, France) will organise “Tribune”, a bilingual (French–English) colloquium for graduate students of Canadian universities. The Canadian Comparative Literature Association, a member association, will provide a grant matched by the AILC-ICLA.
• Laura Castillo Bel, member of the Executive Board and Early Career Researcher Representative of SELGyC – Spanish Society of General and Comparative Literature, Spain, member association of the ICLA – will organise the SELGyC ECR meeting on “Textual Bodies: Embodiment, Corporeality, and Affective Materialities across Literature.” SELGyC will provide a grant matched by the AILC-ICLA.
• Saswati Saha, Executive Council Member of the Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI, a member association of AILC-ICLA), will organise a one-day closed-door symposium for Early Career Researchers on “Indigenous Epistemologies and Comparative Method” with a grant from CLAI, matched by the AILC-ICLA.
• Anna Bourges-Celaries (ICLA member and independent scholar, Canada) and Natasha Kennedy (PhD scholar, University of Brighton, UK), will organise an International two-day symposium on “Linguistic cartographies: narratives of displacement and belonging through language contact in political literature” for Early Career Researchers. The University of Brighton has provided a grant matched by the AILC-ICLA.

Congratulations to all the recipients!

The terms and conditions for the 2026 second round will be annonced soon!

For more informations concerning the Matching Grants, you can click the link here. The criteria for the most recent round of applications can also be found here.