Ellamae Lepper, a Harding Scholar in the final year of a PhD in French, has been awarded the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Postgraduate Prize, for a paper which she recently presented at the society's annual conference.
Ellamae's paper, "Veiling and Unveiling Violence: What the Salon Obscures in Balzac's Autre étude de femme", was based on the third chapter of her thesis on the author Honoré de Balzac.
Read more about the prize here.