The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for this year. These fellowships provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations.
Evaluation criteria includes the quality of the proposal; the feasibility of the project; the potential of the project to advance the field of study in which it is proposed and make an original and significant contribution to it; the nominee’s overall academic record and potential for scholarly achievement; and prior fellowship support. Eligible candidates are nominated by their departments.
SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- Basil Agu, PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, “Ostalgie and Crises of Witnessing: A Comparative Investigation of Selected Texts by Eastern German and Eastern Nigerian Writers” (director: Anke Pinkert)
- William Asamoah Frimpomg, PhD candidate in the Department of French & Italian, "Social Ties in Language Use, Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Congolese in Champaign-Urbana: A Sociolinguistic Study" (director: Zsuzsanna Fagyal)
- Joshua Dees, PhD candiate in the Department of Linguistics, "A Study of (D)efiniteness and (T)emporality in Dholuo" (director: Aida Talić)
- Cai Huiying, PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics, "Exploring a Feature-Based Explainable Automated Essay Scoring System for Local L2 Integrated Argumentative Writing Assessment" (director: Xun Yan)
- Beatriz Jiménez, PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, “The Search for Tesoros in Mexico: Shifting Discourses and Representations of Enforced Disappearances in Mexican Cinema” (director: Mónica García Blizzard)
- Michael Knierim, PhD candidate in the Department of Classics, "The Ritual Healing of Psychological Trauma in Flavian Epic Poetry" (director: Antony Augoustakis)
- Amelia Reggi, PhD candidate in the Department of French & Italian, "Bodies in Crisis: Idealized Femininity and the Curse of Womanhood in the Early 20th Century Italian Novel and Play" (director: Emanuel Rota)
We would also like to recognize the winner of this year's Douglas A. Kibee Prize. This prize was created by colleagues, friends, and students of Douglas Kibbee in honor of his distinguished career and service as the first director of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics on the occasion of his retirement in 2010.
The Kibbee Prize is awarded annually to the recipient of an SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship whose dissertation project is judged by the school’s executive committee to be the most outstanding.
Douglas A. Kibbee Prize
- Beatriz Jiménez, PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, “The Search for Tesoros in Mexico: Shifting Discourses and Representations of Enforced Disappearances in Mexican Cinema” (director: Mónica García Blizzard)