The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to announce the 2023-24 Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Eligible candidates are nominated by their departments.

Katie VanDyne (Spanish & Portuguese), "Establishing Control Into an Adjunct: An Examination of Spanish Clitic Control Patterns and Their Theoretical Implications"
Advisor: Jon MacDonald

Nicholas Rudman (Classics), "Inimicitiae in Tacitus"
Advisor: Brian Walters

Julien Berthelon (French & Italian), "Cuckhold: Male Insecurity and Media in Turn-of-the-Century France"
Advisor: François Proulx

Ping-Lin Chuang (Linguistics), "What Makes an Argument Effective? Triangulating Task Characteristics, Essay Performances, and Rating Processes in an L2 Integrated Argumentative Writing Test"
Advisor: Xun Yan

Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert (Spanish & Portuguese), "Alienation and Crisis in Argentina and Spain (2003-2018): Between the Malaise of Meaninglessness and the Impulse to Resilience"
Advisor: Anna Torres-Cacoullos

Zachary Hade (Germanic Languages & Literatures), "Spectrality in the Novels of Christoph Ransmayr"
Advisor: Laurie Johnson

In addition, we are pleased to announce that Katie VanDyne has also won the Kibbee Award, given to the dissertation project that is deemed to show particular scholarly significance and promise.

These fellowships are supported by the generosity of Donald and Barbara Smalley and Edward McBroom.

Mariselle Meléndez, Ryan Shosted