Fellowship Awards Announced

Two more fellowship announcements for graduate students.

First, we're delighted to announce that Margaret Rice has been awarded a Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-2009.  Margaret is writing her dissertation, "The Ethics of Allegory inParadise Lost," under Marshall Grossman's direction.

Second, we're very pleased to report that another of our doctoral students, Jason Payton, has been awarded a John Carter Brown Library Short-Term Fellowship.  Jason's dissertation, "Writing from the Edge of the Empire: Cultures of Piracy and Letters in the Colonial Americas," is being directed by Ralph Bauer.

Loud and happy congratulations to both Margaret and Jason!