We are thrilled to announce that five Penn State FFS graduate students received awards for their research and creative scholarship in the 37th annual Graduate Exhibition.

First Place:

• Katherine Ellis, liberal arts / French, “Does Trauma Have a Race? The Role of French Imperialism in Conceptualizing Trauma and Recovery in Western Medicine (1914-1918)”
• Brooke Tybush, liberal arts / French, “Sexual Mentorship and Feminist Resistance in Eighteenth-Century French Literature”

Third Place:

• Eric Disbro, liberal arts / French and Francophone studies, “Trans-Inclusive Pedagogies for the Francophone Literature Classroom: A Case Study”
• Morgane Haesen, liberal arts / French, “An Ever-Bleeding Heart: Life Writings in the Alsace-Lorraine Borderland, 1870-1918”
• Ryan Pilcher, liberal arts / French, “Educating Feeling: Race and Sentimental Science in Aglaé Comte’s Histoire naturelle racontée à la jeunesse”

You can read about the winners here!