Congratulations to Elizabeth Rodriguez!

  June 27, 2014

We are delighted to announce that Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ph.D. candidate in English and SPAN dissertation fellow in 2013-14, has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship for 2014. Elizabeth is one of only 10 recipients of this prestigious national fellowship, which “supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.” Elizabeth’s dissertation is on “Consensual Relations: Sexual and Political Subjectivity in England, 1550-1700.”

Elizabeth has additionally been awarded a 2014 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students at Northwestern. Her dissertation research, funded by SPAN in 2012-13, is entitled “Consensual Relations: Sexual and Political Subjectivity in England, 1550-1700.”

Congratulations to former Postdoctoral Fellow Kirsten Leng!

  June 26, 2014

We are delighted to announce that SPAN’s former postdoctoral fellow, Kirsten Leng, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, to begin September 1, 2014. As of September 2014, she will be an Assistant Professor in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. Congratulations, Kirsten!