This year, we are excited to announce a new fundraising initiative: the Marathon Reading Summer Research Fellowship. Your donation will support current scholars and encourage the next generation: four fellowships will fund two English PhD students and two undergraduate English majors at UCLA. Each of the four $2000 fellowships that you will help create will allow these scholars dedicate a month to research, research travel, and writing while not having to worry about the high cost of living in Los Angeles. Your gift will also be supporting mentoring and collaboration: fellowship recipients will share work with each other, and participate in specially designed professionalization and research workshops led by faculty mentors.