Humanities Research Institute and Dania De La Hoya Rojas
March 6, 2025
Left to right: smiling brunette woman in dark blue blouse, headshot of smiling dark-haired man in white polo, smiling brunette woman in light brown shirt
Left to right: Rachelle Grossman, Daniel Nabil Maroun, and Ilaria Strocchia

 

The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2025–26 academic year. 

Two faculty members and a graduate student from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics are among this year's recipients. 

The theme for the year is “Story and Place.”

HRI Campus Fellows

Faculty Fellows

Rachelle Grossman (assistant professor, Comparative & World Literature), “Afterwords: Yiddish in the Postwar World”

Daniel Nabil Maroun (assistant professor, French & Italian), “The Politics of Kinship: Writing Queerness, Filiation, and Race in Contemporary France”

Graduate Fellows

Ilaria Strocchia (Spanish & Portuguese), “Flowing Histories: Examining the Role of Water in Shaping Urban Spaces and Identities Across Cultures”