Two graduate students and one professor in the Department of English have been awarded Humanities Research Institute fellowships. The three were among fourteen selected for this year’s fellowship under the theme of “Story and Place.”
Amy Hassinger, professor of English in the Creative Writing Program, has been selected as a faculty fellow for her project, “DIMMENING, a linked collection of stories.”
Debayudh Chatterjee, a doctoral candidate in literary studies, was selected for his project entitled, “Specters of Communism in the Age of Hindutva and Globalization: Reimagining the ‘Left’ in Progressive Indian Literature and Cinema (1989–2014).”
Emerson Parker Pehl, a doctoral candidate in cultural studies, joins HRI with their project, “Colonial Unknowing in the Collective Unconscious: The Reverberations of Colonial Expropriation from the Archives of Psychoanalytic Thought.”
The fellows will spend the year engaged in research and writing, and participate in the HRI Fellows Seminar.
Editor's note: Visit the HRI site to view the full list of fellowship winners.