Richard Hronek and Lucian Rothe received a Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship for Summer 2019 from the Graduate School at UW-Madison. Hronek and Rothe are both Ph.D. candidates in the German program and are currently working on their dissertations. Richard Hronek’s dissertation analyzes Jakob Arjouni’s Kayankaya crime series using Friedrich Nietzsche’s concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian. In his dissertation, Lucian Rothe is exploring how learners’ stereotypical native-speaker attributions travel to the foreign language classroom.
The Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship competition is designed for dissertators in the College of Letters and Science who conduct research in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. The summer fellowship supports graduate students during their dissertation writing stage which allows dissertators to focus exclusively on their research over the summer.
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