Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the inaugural Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Summer Faculty Research Fellowship.

Professor Mariselle Meléndez, Head of Spanish and Portuguese, announced that Professor Fornoff is one of the two faculty fellows chosen this first year. She will be working on a chapter on climate change and indigenous futurity which is part of her book in-progress, “Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Culture in the Era of Climate Change”.

As announced by the IPRH, “the Summer Faculty Research Fellowships are designed to help faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign maximize the summer for research in service of their ongoing professional development. They provide an infusion of resources designed to jumpstart or fuel an ongoing research project over the summer months.”

Professor Fornoff’s research areas include 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature and film, with a focus on Mexico and Central America; environmental humanities: posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; and critical theories of race, gender, and disability.