Among this year’s National Humanities Center Fellows are three members of the Modern Language Association. Each fellow will work on individual research and benefit from the center’s seminars, lectures, and resources. The MLA commends them for their contribution to humanistic scholarship.
Hurford Family Fellowship
Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas, Austin
Field of study: English language and literature
Project title: “Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers”
John Hope Franklin Fellowship
Trudier Harris, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Field of study: American literature
Project title: “Ungraspable? Depictions of Home in African American Literature”
H. Abrams Fellowship
Ted Underwood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Field of study: English language and literature
Project title: “A Perspectival History of Fiction in English, 1800–2008”