Three students in the Department of English have been awarded prestigious research prizes from the Humanities Research Institute. The HRI Prizes for Research in the Humanities celebrate excellence in humanities scholarship, with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels.
Yoonsuh Kim won a graduate research award for her paper, “Beyond Regions: Iron, Mobility, and the Toxic Imaginary in Life in the Iron Mills.”
Alexis Schmidt was selected as an honorable mention for graduate student research for her paper, “The Plot of Depletion in Edith Summers Kelley’s Novel Weeds.”
Undergraduate student Colten Hallem also won a research prize for his paper, “‘What is this flesh?’: Ecological Interiority and Decay in The Duchess of Malfi.”
The recipients will be recognized at a ceremony at the Spurlock Museum on Thursday, May 8.
Editor's note: Visit the HRI website to see the full list of research prize winners and summer faculty fellows.