Two WLLC Professors Win Esteemed Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Violeta Lorenzo and Dr. Brett Sterling for receiving the Robet C. and Sandra Connor Endowed Faculty Fellowship in 2016. This $3,000 Faculty Fellowship is to support the career advancement of faculty who provide the highest quality teaching, research and service to the college.
Dr. Sterling, Associate Professor of German
I am excited and honored to be chosen as a Robert C. and Sandra Connor fellow. The fellowship will provide me with the necessary resources to conduct archival research on two book projects, the first on mass hysteria in the works of Austrian exile author Hermann Broch, and the second on German comics in the 21st century. With the funds from the Connor fellowship, I will spend a month in Germany at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive), the most important archive for literature in German-speaking Europe, and the Comic-Archiv at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, the largest collection of German-language comics , encompassing 60,000 objects dating from 1890 to the present. My work in both archives will help me to complete my present manuscript on Hermann Broch, while preparing me to begin with my second project on comics thereafter.
Dr. Lorezo-Feliciano, Associate Professor of Spanish
I am honored to be a 2016 Connor Faculty Fellowship recipient! I plan to use these funds primarily to conduct archival research for my book manuscript on discourses of nationality in Spanish-Caribbean coming of age novels and the incorporation of such novels in school curriculums. With the funds from the Connor fellowship, I will spend a month at the University of Puerto Rico’s Colección Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Collection), the most important library for Puerto Rican studies, and the archives at Puerto Rico’s Department of Education. This archival research will help me complete my present manuscript and will also allow me to start another academic project on discourses of race by Caribbean essayists.