The Humanities Research Institute has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from campus for the 2026-27 academic year, including several from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.
The theme for the year is “Up Against Erasure.”
HRI Campus Fellows
Faculty Fellows
Eric Calderwood (Comparative and World Literature), “The Girl from Tetouan: Amina Loh and the Margins of Moroccan Culture”
Olha Khometa (Slavic Languages and Literatures), “The Erasure of Ukrainian Modernism in the Soviet Union: Poetry and Politics, 1910–1930”
Angelica Waner (Spanish and Portuguese), “Knowledge Keepers: How Isthmus Zapotec Magazines Shape Autonomy and Futurities”
Graduate Fellows
Yating Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures), “Pathologizing the Womb: Medical Knowledge, the Female Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1900s–1940s)”
Gerson Morales Pérez (Spanish and Portuguese), “From Erasure to Memory: Cultural Representations of War, Indigeneity and Resistance in Contemporary Guatemala”
Editor's note: A version of this announcement was first posted on the Humanities Research Institute website.