Northern Illinois University
Laura Vilardell, Ph.D.
World Languages and Cultures

Grants and Scholarships Internal

Year	Details
2024	NEH Summer Stipend Internal Competition. Proposal selected for development and submission to NEH. September 4.
2024	Research Travel Grant. NIU Center for Latino and Latin American Studies and RIPS. Award: $1,000. Funded
2023	NEH Summer Stipend Internal Competition. Proposal selected for development and submission to NEH. August 1.
2021-22	Research and Artistry Completion Grant. "Translation without Borders: the dissemination of Hispanic Literature to an English Audience through The Dolphin Book Publishing House". Northern Illinois University. Award: $7,400.00.
2021	Funding Support for Conference Travel. Scholarly Activity and Curricular Innovation for UFA Faculty. Northern Illinois University.
2021	Funding Support for Conference Travel. Scholarly Activity and Curricular Innovation for UFA Faculty. Northern Illinois University.

Grants and Scholarships External

Year	Details
2024	Summer Stipends. National Endowment for the Humanities. Project: “The Dolphin Book Company: A Revolution in the Book Dynamics of Catalan and Spanish Literature in the Twentieth Century”. GRANT14255697, Opportunity Number 20240918-FT. Submitted on September 18, 2024. Not funded.
2023	Summer Stipends. National Endowment for the Humanities. Project: “A Multidisciplinary Study on The Dolphin Book Company (1935–96), A Key Contributor to Promoting Hispanic Literature Overseas”. GRANT13974301, Opportunity Number 20220921-FT. Submitted on September 13, 2023. Not funded.
2017	Grant for Literary activities – Research. Government of Catalonia. Ministry of Culture. Project for writing a book entitled "Josep M. Boix i Selva: poeta, traductor i editor" (Josep M. Boix i Selva, poet, translator and publisher), CLT032/17/00013.
2016	Member of the National Project "Connected Academics" (Mellon/MLA funded, about Public Humanities). Georgetown University.
2009-2013	Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship. Formación de Personal Investigador, FPI [National Program for the Promotion of Talent and Its Employability]. Spanish Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation, BES-2009-017805. Càtedra Verdaguer d'Estudis Literaris [Verdaguer Chair of Literary Studies], University of Vic (2009-2013). PI: Ramon Pinyol Torrents, PhD.
2012	Editor Grant. Fundació Lluís Carulla. Indexing 12 volumes of Verdaguer's collected letters.

Merit-based Awards

Year	Details
2008-9	Editor Grant. Fundació Lluís Carulla. Indexing 12 volumes of Verdaguer's collected letters.
2008	Grant for Cooperation and Mobility. Caixa de Manlleu (2008). Interpreting at International Atomic Energy Agency, United Nations, Vienna.
2007-9	Grant for Cooperation in a Research Group. Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) Assistance in both research and teaching in the Research Group "Editorials, Traduccions i Traductors a la Catalunya Contemporània" [Publishers, Translations, and Translators in Contemporary Catalonia]. University of Vic.

Other Professionally Significant Achievements

Year	Details
2019	International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture. Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies. Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, July 1-6. Accepted and attended.