Boryana Dobreva awarded ACLS Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Boryana Dobreva awarded ACLS Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Boryana Dobreva, a PhD student in the Department of German, was awarded a Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to support her final year of dissertation writing next academic year. Boryana’s dissertation, supervised by Professor Sabine von Dirke, studies the experience of migration as reflected in texts of contemporary Eastern European émigrés who live in Germany and Austria and write in German. The ACLS was able to fund only 65 (about 5%) of the 1148 applications they received nation-wide, which made the competition extremely rigorous this year.