Two early-career academics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages have been recognised by the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Two early-career academics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages have been recognised by the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
The prize is appropriate recognition for two outstanding early-career academics and a fitting testimony to the flourishing of research on European literature and culture in Cambridge.
Professor Richard Hunter
Dr Emma Gilby from the Department of French and Dr Rodrigo Cacho from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese were honoured recently by The Leverhulme Trust for their outstanding research contributions: Dr Gilby for her meticulous scholarship of the 17th-century French literary-historical canon, and Dr Cacho for his research on Spanish Golden Age Literature.
During the tenure of their prizes, Dr Gilby will be working on 17th-century theories of indifference and free will, with particular reference to Descartes, and Dr Cacho will be editing the works of Quevedo and writing a monograph on the Spanish mock-epic.
Approximately 25 Philip Leverhulme Prizes are awarded each year across five different topics, each prize providing £70,000 to enhance the prize-holder’s research over a two-year period.
Professor Richard Hunter, Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities, is delighted for the two researchers: ‘The prize is appropriate recognition for two outstanding early-career academics and a fitting testimony to the flourishing of research on European literature and culture in Cambridge.’
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