Three members of the Department of English have earned faculty and graduate student fellowships from the Humanities Research Institute for 2026–27. This year’s research theme is “Up Against Erasure.”
Kimberly Mack earned a faculty fellowship for her project, “Brown Sugar Blues: The White Soundtrack of a Black Girl Who Loves Rock.”
Lindsay Rose Russell earned a faculty fellowship for her project, “Sex and Lex.”
Doctoral student David Bishop earned a graduate student fellowship for his project, “Reading Against Erasure: Archival Silences & the Lost Works of Augustus M. Hodges.”
HRI Campus Fellowships provide financial support to Illinois faculty and graduate students to engage in research and writing, and participate in the HRI Fellows Seminar. Faculty fellows are provided with one semester of release time and research funds. Graduate student fellows are given a stipend and a tuition and partial fee waiver for the academic year of the award.