Lauryn Anderson (2021 Cohort, PhD in English) has been awarded a prestigious Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship to study at Princeton University for the academic year 2024-25.
Procter fellowships, awarded by the trustees of Oxford and Cambridge, are awarded on both the basis of a very high standard of academic achievement, as well as in recognition of fellows' wider involvement within the social, cultural and community life of their university. At Cambridge, Lauryn has widely involved herself in the academic community, organising various reading groups, events and conferences including the University-funded research network Ambivalent Archives, the Faculty of English Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar, and the interdisciplinary reading group activist/aesthetics. Lauryn is also deeply involved in widening-participation and outreach work, and is a graduate rep for the #Justice4CollegeSupervisors UCU campaign and a regular volunteer for the Cambridge Community Kitchen.
During this fellowship, Lauryn will be developing her PhD work on the politics of literary mediation, global docu-poetics and literary ethics, as well as taking classes in Princeton's English, Politics and Philosophy departments.
Previous notable recipients of the Fellowship comprise several academics and public figures across disciplines, including computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing and literary critics Eric Griffiths and René Wellek.