The Tim McGovern Memorial Scholarship Fund has been set up to preserve the memory of our beloved colleague and friend Tim McGovern. He was a talented and eclectic researcher active in many academic fields, as well as a mentor to countless instructors who passed through the Spanish and Portuguese language teaching programs he directed in the Deptartment of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB.

The Memorial Scholarship Fund in his honor aims at supporting graduate students' research projects in the areas of Spanish and Mexican 19th and 20th-century literature, Portuguese, Galician and Catalan literatures, fantastic literature, gender studies, queer studies, and applied linguistics, as well as excellence in teaching.

We need to reach a minimum goal of $10,000 in donations within one year so that the fund may become a self-sustaining endowment and the memory of Professor McGovern will not fade away for future generations of students who were not fortunate enough to have him as a teacher and mentor. Those students can still benefit from his amazing versatility and dedication to research in many diverse fields.

Your donation is tax-deductible.
Please help us reach our goal and cherish Tim’s memory forever.

If you would like to contribute to the fund, please make out a check to the UC Regents and, in the “memo” section at the bottom of the check, write:

“Tim McGovern Memorial Fund.” 

Checks can be sent to:
Attn. Craig Welsh
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4150

Thank you for your contribution.