Modern Language Association Recognizes 16 New Guiliano Fellows from 11 universities and 16 PhD Programs at MLA Awards Ceremony in Toronto on January 9, 2026
Yuki Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles, “Casualties beyond the Battlefield: Women’s Wartime Health through the Lens of World War II”
Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Plantation Genres: Race, Labor, and Literature in Colonial South Asia, 1850-1950”
Ruoyi Bian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Governing Desire: Archival Research and Oral Histories of Hong Kong Erotic Cinema, 1980-1997”
Anna Brotman-Krass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Migrant Domestic Laborers and Care Workers in Spain: The Translation of Performing Arts-Based Activism into Film”
Min Ji Choi, Harvard University, “State-Sanctioned Sanctity: Sonic Ethnography of Oti Byeolsinje (Or’i Pyǒsinje)”
Catherine A Evans, Carnegie Mellon University, “The Provocative Lesbian: Queer Media of the Long Seventies”
Sarah Frank, University of Iowa, “Juggernaut Infrastructure: Literary Modernism and the Machine Age”
Salwa Y M Halloway, Princeton University, “The Policing of Black Sound in West Indian Slave Societies”
Oana Alexan Katz, Northwestern University, “Heritage Unbound: A Digital Archive for Teaching Cultural Memory in Spain”
Rachel Kirk, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, “(Un-)natural Disaster, Cultural Loss, and Preservation in the Franco-Creole Caribbean”
Eunice Lee, Harvard University, “Intensive Dictations: Theresa Hak Kyung Anu Sugathan, Cha’s Voice at the BAMPFA”
Jade Shiva, University of Texas, Austin, “Embodied Rhetoric, Storytelling and the Politics of Care”
Anu Sugathan, University of Oregon, “Visual Storytelling, Gender, and Caste in the Patua Tradition of Naya Village to Tara Books”
Tian Jing Teh, University of Southern California, “Remembering Silences: Southeast Asian Mnemonic Writings and the Disappearance of Inter-Asian Hiroshima” Assel Uvaliyeva, University of Southern California, “Recovering the Lost Voices of Tatar Avant-Garde”
Lauren White, University of Southern California, “An Alien Land of Fences: Indigenous Borderlands, Networks of Surveillance, and D’Arcy McNickle”
