Two faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received a Prize for Research in the Humanities from the Humanities Research Institute. These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The recipients will be honored at the Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception on Thursday, May 4, 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Levis Faculty Center, Room 422.
Faculty Prizes
Winner
John Levi Barnard (Comparative and World Literature), “Colonization to Climate Change: American Literature and a Planet on Fire,” in Oxford Handook of Twentieth-Century American Literature. Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo, eds. (Oxford UP, 2022): 40–58.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824039.013.12
Honorable Mention
Julie Gaillard (French and Italian), “‘Returning 'home’? Or Dwelling in the Pixel Age: On Invader’s Intermedial Invasion,” in Returning (Nostalgia)/Retourner (la nostalgie), Intermédialités/Intermediality, André Habib, Suzanne Paquet, Carl Therrien (eds.), n°39 (Spring 2022): 1–24.
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/im/2022-n39-im07461/1093770ar/
To read about the other recipients, click here.
Humanities Research Institute
Editor's note: A version of this story first appeared on the Humanities Research Institute website.