Five of the seven professors recently named IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Faculty Fellows for 2020-21 are from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. One SLCL student also was named a Graduate Student Fellow for 2020-21.

The professors and their projects are as follows:

• Waïl S. Hassan, Comparative and World Literature / English: “Arab Brazil: Literature, Culture, and Orientalism”
• Harriet Murav, Comparative and World Literature / Slavic Languages and Literatures: “Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)”
• Carl Niekerk, Germanic Languages and Literatures: “Enlightenment Anthropology”
• Gian Piero Persiani, East Asian Languages and Cultures: “Locating the Global: Vernacularization and Sino-Japanese Cultural Diglossia in Japan 900-1100 CE”
• Robert Tierney, East Asian Languages and Cultures / Comparative and World Literature: “Importing Democracy to East Asia”

The graduate student is Ji Hyea Hwang, Comparative and World Literature, and her project is titled “Transcolonial Nationhood: Global Interplay in Irish and Korean National Theatre”.

The theme for the year is “The Global and Its Worlds,” and is offered in partnership with the Illinois Global Institute. The IPRH Fellows Seminar will be open to affiliates of these centers and programs who want to attend on a first-come, first-served basis.