Students interested in scholarships and student loans should consult the Office of Student Financial Aid. The Department of English currently provides financial support primariily in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships, which carry full tuition waivers. Graduate Teaching Assistantships are available on a competitive basis to a limited number of M.F.A., Ph.D., and second-year M.A. students with superior qualifications (the Department cannot fund M.A. students in their first years). The Paul Bowles Graduate Fellowship and The Virginia Spencer Carr Graduate Fellowship are awarded to entering fiction writing students who have been admitted to the M.F.A. or Ph.D. program. Again, Graduate Teaching Assistantships are awarded on a competitive basis, and admission alone to any graduate program in English does not authomaticallly guarantee funding. Further information and application forms are available from the Department of English.