Six new Graduate Student Fellows in the humanistic disciplines at Washington University will join the Center for the Humanities for a semester in residence during the 2026–27 academic year. Along with a $5,000 stipend, the competitively awarded Graduate Student Fellowships provide opportunity for grad fellows to workshop a portion of their dissertation with Faculty Fellows in residence, other WashU faculty and invited guests.
To review past Graduate Student Fellows, follow this link.
Fall 2026
Ayla Gray
German and Comparative Literature Track, Department of Comparative Literature and Thought
“‘Forget-me-not’– The Diary of George Schlossstein: A Microhistory of 19th-Century U.S. Mass Migration”
Amira Khelfallah
International Writers Track, Department of Comparative Literature and Thought
“Albert Cossery: Toward an Embodied Methodology of Diasporic Writing”
Sylvia Sukop
Germanic Languages and Literatures, International Writers Track, Department of Comparative Literature and Thought
“Transnational Racial Violence, Local Memory: 21st-Century Commemorative Practices in St. Louis, Missouri, and Wurzburg, Germany”
Spring 2027
Lee Morrison
Department of History
“Suburbium: Urbanization and Monastic Neighborhoods in Genoa, 1180-1380”
Katherine Tilghman
Hispanic Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
“Care and the Politics of Gendered Bodies: A Feminist Reading of Contemporary Mexican and Argentine Novels by Women Writers”
Qiong (Alex) Xu
Department of English
“Positions in Motion: Affective Interchangeability in the 18th-Century Novel”
