Comparative Literature and Literary Theory students who have received awards and fellowships for summer 2020 or for the academic year, 2020-2021:
Angelina Eimannsberger has been selected as the Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellow in the Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania for summer 2020. She will be conducting a research project on the all-digital Reese Witherspoon's Book Club.
India Halstead has received the Dream Lab 2020 Scholarship from the Wolf Humanities Center & Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania.
Zain Mian has been awarded the Price Lab Mellon Summer Fellowship where he will be studying the motivations, investments, and interpretative techniques of general readers engaging World Literature. Focusing on Goodreads, the MLA International Bibliography, and the Open Syllabus Project, he will compare the reception and consecration of what counts as "Pakistani Literature" across a range of institutions.
Zain has also received the Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship for a two-week project at the Library of Congress conducting pre-dissertation work on Urdu journal culture. His goal will be to identify and begin preliminary research on key undigitized journals to help outline the general structure of his dissertation.
In addition, Zain has been granted the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) Short Term Research Grant to Pakistan. He will be using it to conduct research on Urdu literary journals at various archives and universities across the country.
Bryan Norton has been selected by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures to receive The Arthur M. Daemmrich and Guenther Memorial Prize for outstanding achievements in German Studies.
Maria Pape has received the Nancy M. Farriss Graduate Student Paper Award, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania.
https://lals.sas.upenn.edu/news/nancy-m-farriss-graduate-student-paper-award-2020
Adam Sax has been selected for a 2020-2021 Fulbright award. He will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Antwerp, Belgium.
Adam was also selected by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures for the Workmen’s Circle/ Arbiter Ring Prize for "outstanding achievements in Yiddish Studies.”