The IPRH research prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois, with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. Congratulations to this year's winners!

FACULTY PRIZES

Winner: François Proulx (French and Italian), “Bourget, the Chambige Affair, and the Queer Seductions of the Novel,” from Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France (University of Toronto Press, 2019)

Honorable Mention: Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish and Portuguese), “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in Joris Ivens’ The Spanish Earth (1937),” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies (Nov 2019)

GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

Winner: Megan Gargiulo (Spanish and Portuguese), “Debility and Domination in Recogimientos de mujeres in Late Colonial Mexico,” Nominated by Professor Mariselle Meléndez and written for SPAN 599: Thesis Research, directed by Professor Meléndez.

Honorable Mention: Ji Hyea Hwang (Comparative and World Literature), “Domesticity in the Trilogies of Sean O’Casey and Yu Ch’i-jin,” nominated by Professor Robert Tierney and submitted for CWL 599: Thesis Research, directed by Professor Tierney.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE

Winner: Emma Olson, “Margery Kempe as Mankind: The Influence of East Anglian Drama on The Book of Margery Kempe,” nominated by Professor Carol Symes and submitted for HIST 490: Honors Independent Study, directed by Professor Symes.