Ph.D. candidate wins Lounsbery/ENCCRE Fellowship
LCL is delighted to announce that our PhD candidate, Fadi Elsaid, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Richard Lounsbery Foundation / ENCCRE Fellowship. This award supports international collaboration within the ENCCRE Project (Édition Numérique Collaborative et CRitique de l’Encyclopédie). Sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences, ENCCRE is a major scholarly initiative dedicated to producing a […]
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Kurdish literary conference to take place in May
The Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages invites you to join Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature, a virtual conference taking place on May 21–22, 2026. Building on the momentum of the 2025 gathering at Stanford University, this second edition brings together scholars, writers and artists to reflect on the generative force of refusal across Kurdish literary […]
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Nada Elshabrawy Wins Harriott Fellowship
Nada Elshabrawy has been awarded UConn’s Harriott Fellowship for outstanding young scholars who have been admitted to doctoral programs at the University of Connecticut. Recipients of these fellowship represent the very best applicants to graduate programs at the University. Applicants must also demonstrate a commitment to enhancing diversity in higher education and/or a commitment to […]
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LCL Ph.D. Student Wins International Fellowship
Doctoral student Joscha Valentin Jelitzki was awarded the Franz Werfel Fellowship by the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) in the spring of 2024. He is currently in Vienna conducting the research that the Fellowship was awarded to support. Joscha joined the department in 2019 as a PhD student in German and Judaic Studies. In his […]
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German Studies Student Wins Prestigious Fellowship
Guerlina Philogene, a senior in German Studies’ dual-degree EUROBIZ program, has been named a graduate fellow in the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Program, funded by the United States Department of State and administered by Howard University. The program, which welcomes applications from members of underserved minority communities, prepares students for foreign service careers […]
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Rahul Koonathara Win Prestigious Doctoral Fellowship
Rahul Koonathara has been awarded UConn’s Harriott Fellowship for outstanding young scholars who have been admitted to doctoral programs at the University of Connecticut. Recipients of these fellowship represent the very best applicants to graduate programs at the University. Applicants must also demonstrate a commitment to enhancing diversity in higher education and/or a commitment to […]
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Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann receives UCHI fellowship
Congratulations to Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann on her 2023-24 academic year Humanities Institute fellowship! Katerina, an Associate Professor of Spanish Studies, will bring a project entitled “Aimé Césaire and His Cuban Comrades in Art.” Katerina writes that the project “examines the relationships of solidarity and translation between Martinican poet, dramatist, essayist, and politician Aimé Césaire and […]
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Ana María Díaz-Marcos will be an UCHI fellow
LCL is thrilled to announce that Ana María Díaz-Marcos has been awarded a fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year at the UConn Humanities Institute! Ana María, a Professor of Spanish Studies, will continue work in the vein of her exciting digital humanities exhibitions and collections, which she completed as part of the international program Recovering […]
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Xu Peng receives Richard Brown Fellowship
Congratulations to Xu Peng, a graduate student in Chinese Studies, who has been named the Richard Brown Dissertation Fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute! Xu will continue work on his Ph.D. thesis “From History to the Future: Chineseness in Contemporary Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican Literatures and Cultures.” The dissertation studies the literary and cultural representation […]
[Read More]LCL’s Glorimarie Peña Alicea wins Aetna Translation Award
Glorimarie Peña Alicea has won the Aetna Translation Award from UConn’s English department for her translation of Claudia Hernandez’s short story “El hijo muerto” as “Dead Child’s Manual.” Glorimarie’s translation will appear in the 2023 edition of the Long River Review. Congratulations, Glorimarie, on this signal achievement. Glorimarie writes that Hernandez’s story, “published in the book titled […]
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