Fellowships Announced for Graduate Students

We're delighted to share news of fellowships awarded to our graduate students.

Four doctoral candidates have thus far been awarded dissertation fellowships of various kinds:

Kathleen Barker, whose dissertation, "'Antychryst and his beastly brood':  The Tudor Antichrists, 1485-1590," is being directed by Kent Cartwright, has been awarded an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate School.

Maria Ramos has been awarded a Smith College Mendenhall Fellowship for 2008-09.  Maria's dissertation is titled "'Africa's fingers tipped with miracles': Spain in Twentieth-Century African American Travel Writing," and is being directed by Zita Nunes.

Margaret Rice has been awarded a Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-09.  Margaret is writing her dissertation, "The Ethics of Allegory in Paradise Lost" under Marshall Grossman's direction.

Heidi Scott, whose dissertation, "Chaos and the Microcosm: the Roots of Ecology in 19th Century British Literature," is being directed by Neil Fraistat, has been awarded an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate School.

And, two of our doctoral students have been awarded John Carter Brown Library Short-Term Research Fellowships -- Kelly Wisecup, who is writing her dissertation, "Communicating Disease: Encounters of Medical Knowledge and Literary Technologies in Colonial British America," under the direction of Ralph Bauer, and Jason Payton, whose dissertation, "Writing from the Edge of the Empire: Cultures of Piracy and Letters in the Colonial Americas," is also being directed by Ralph Bauer. 

Please join us in congratulating all of these recipients!