Read about the 2026-2027 OI Coffeehouse tables here.
The OI Coffeehouse Fellowships
Each OI Coffeehouse Fellow receives $1000 for two semesters of regular meetings between roughly September 15 and May 15. At the end of the spring session, each Fellow will deliver a 500-word blog post summarizing the highlights from the past year of meetings. The OI helps you promote your table and find participants as well as provides the meeting platform.
Interested in becoming an OI Coffeehouse Fellow? Submit the following by midnight, AUGUST 1, 2026.
An abbreviated c.v. plus a one-page plan to run a bi-weekly Coffeehouse. The plan should include your proposed area of research as well as thoughts on format and audience.
Format: The format is up to you—Reading group with pre-circulated pieces? Writing group where participants take turns presenting works in progress? A combination of both? Something else altogether? —but you must be clear in your proposal how you plan to run the sessions.
Audience: Please be clear who your intended audience is—for example, do you envision working only with people who are working on their second books? Or are you hoping to connect with people teaching courses on a particular period or area? Or are you hoping to bring together emerging scholars interested in a particular area of interest? Or another group altogether? — again, the choice is yours but please tell us who you want to reach.
Send your c.v. and proposal to us at oieahc@wm.edu by midnight AUGUST 1, 2026. We will choose recipients by Friday, August 13, and begin advertising the Coffeehouses the following week. Coffeehouses will begin roughly September 15 and run for eight months with breaks for holidays.