SLCL faculty and graduate students swept this year’s recently announced IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Prizes for Research in the Humanities in their respective categories.
At the faculty level, the winner was François Proulx, Associate Professor of French and Italian, for “Bourget, the Chambige Affair, and the Queer Seductions of the Novel,” from Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
The Honorable Mention Award for faculty went to Eduardo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, for “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in Joris Ivens’ The Spanish Earth (1937),” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies (Nov 2019).
For the graduate level competition, the winner was Megan Gargiulo of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for “Debility and Domination in Recogimientos de mujeres in Late Colonial Mexico,” Gargiulo was nominated by Professor Mariselle Meléndez of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and her work was done for SPAN 599: Thesis Research, directed by Professor Meléndez.
The Honorable Mention Award in the same category went to Ji Hyea Hwang, Program in Comparative and World Literature, for “Domesticity in the Trilogies of Sean O’Casey and Yu Ch’i-jin.” Hwang was nominated by Professor Robert Tierney of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and her work was submitted for CWL 599: Thesis Research, directed by Professor Tierney.