Alba Girons Masot has been awarded the 2022 Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy. This award, named in honor of Janel Mueller, the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Department of English and former Dean of the Humanities Division, recognizes outstanding pedagogical contributions from our Lecturers and Senior Lecturers in the Humanities Division and Humanities Collegiate Division.
Veronica Vegna, Director of the Italian Language Program, Languages Across the Curriculum Coordinator, Senior Instructional Professor in RLL has received the 2022 Glenn and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching. The Swogger Award was established to recognize outstanding instructors who introduce our students to habits of scholarly thinking through the College Core. Congratulations Veronica!
RLL alum Elizabeth Tavella (PhD’20) has been awarded the Humanities Division’s 2022-23 Julius Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellowship. This research fellowship is renewable for a second year. Elizabeth, current Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, adopts a global and transdisciplinary approach to address complex environmental issues and promote multispecies justice. Her dissertation is titled, “Seeking Interspecies Justice: Spaces of Animal Confinement in Italian Literature,” and she has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Assistant Instructional Professor, Juliano Saccomani has been awarded a 2022-23 Provost's Global Faculty Award for his work, “Virtual Reality: a critical immersive perspective from Rio de Janeiro”.
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz has won the Nineteenth Century Section of the Association of Latin American Studies' 2022 Best Article Award for “After Redemption and Abandonment: José Antonio Aponte’s Libro de pinturas in the Field of Visual Portraiture,” Colonial Latin American Review, 30.2, 305-340.
