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In April 1997, the department gave four awards for outstanding teaching among associate instructors. The recipients were Tammy Gravenhorst, Joyce Carlton Johnston, Margaret Laboe, and Tamara Pollack. Each received a cash prize of $100 and a certificate of commendation.

Awards also went to undergraduate and graduate students for outstanding scholarship. The Cannings Prize, given annually to an oustanding student majoring in French linguistics, honors the late Professor Peter Cannings. This year, the award went to two graduate students, Bruce Anderson and John Moses.

Erik Haakenstad received the Lander MacClintock Award, which is given to an oustanding student, graduate or undergraduate, majoring in either French or Italian, alternating annually. Professor MacClintock, who taught here for more than 40 years in both languages, essentially established Italian studies at Indiana University.

Julie Baker and Heather McCullough received the Grace P. Young Graduate Award, given for over-all excellence in literary studies on the graduate level. Amanda Baker and Cheryl Bates were named winners of the Grace P. Young Undergraduate Award.

Named for the late professor of French literature and civilization, the John K. Hyde Award is given to an oustanding undergraduate majoring in French. This year’s recipient was Lisa Denlinger.

The Albert and Agnes Kuersteiner Memorial Prize, established in memory of Agnes Duncan Kuersteiner, Class of 1907, and her husband, Albert Kuersteiner, professor of French from 1897 until his death in 1917, is given to a sophomore or junior for excelle nce in both the spoken and written language. This year’s winner was Hope Washburn.

This year the Mario Vangeli Award for excellence in Italian studies was given to two undergraduate students, Anna Gercas and Andrei Levchenko.

Asheleigh Jensen was awarded the third Carol Ann Brush Hofstadter Memorial Scholarship for Bologna-bound IU students. Carol Hofstadter was the holder of a bachelor’s in Italian and art history and a master’s in library science from IUB . This scholarship was created from donations from her family and her many friends across the nation and around the globe.

At the same ceremony, a record number of 12 students was inducted into Gamma Kappa Alpha, the national honor society for college students of Italian. Professor Edoardo Lèbano, IU chapter representative of the society, presented each stude nt with a framed certificate of merit.

During a ceremony held on Nov. 7, 1997, at the International Student Center, nine students of Italian (seven majors and two minors) received $1,000 scholarships from the Mola Foundation of Chicago and the National Italian American Foundation of Washing ton, D.C. The scholarships were presented to Kelly Blank, Heidi Barker, Toby D. Clark, Monica Grover, Scott Kingsley, Kathryn Warrener, Shannon White, Stephanie Giordano, and Yotam Haber.

Last year, Martha Johnson was given the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship for 1997-98. Francesca Parmeggiani, Bruce Anderson, and Kris Coburn received College of Arts and Sciences travel grants. Mary Vogl and Julia Davis were awarded summer Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Fellowships.

On April 14, 1997, a staged play-reading of Anouilh’s Bal des voleurs took place in Ballantine Hall. Professor Charlotte Gerrard played a role and directed. Other actors were Julie Baker, Amanda Renée Baker, Jason Thomas, Darius Torchinsky, Larry Kuiper, Charles Pooser, Johnny Rose, Max Troyer, and Heather Birt. Violin music was charmingly played by Dennis Marrell.

A joint entertainment by students of Richard Ritz, teacher of French at Bloomington North High School, and two graduate IU students took place at Ashton Center, home of the French House. The high-schoolers highlighted the Middle Ages, while IU graduate students Kira Moore and Dan Golembeski read original poems.

I n 1996 and 1997, 13 graduate students in the department defended their PhD theses: Mylène Catel, "Henri Bosco, Héritier de l’Ombre"; Chantal Gerniers, "Littérature et Révolut ion. L’Influence de l’idéolgie communiste chez trois auteurs belges de l’entre-deux-guerres: Charles Plisnier, Victor Serge et Constant Malva"; Mihaela Ionescu, "Le Sentiment de la solitude chez quelques romanci&egra ve;res du dix-huitième siècle"; Margaret Flynn, "Pious Pathologies: Medical and Religious Discourse in the Female-Centered Narratives of Emile Zola"; Sarah Jourdain, "The Case of Null-Prep in the Interlangua ge of Adult Learners of French"; Susan Loubet, "Vision Problems: Sight and Knowledge in the Works of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras"; Denis Augier, "Reflets de la science alchimique de la Renaissnce à la fin du XVIIe siècle dans les oeuvres de Rabelais, Clovis Hesteau de Nuisement, Beroalde de Verville et Cyrano de Bergerac"; Charles Pooser, "Shades of the Storyteller in Early Romance Historiography: A Text-Contrastive and Diachron ic Application of the Labovian Oral Narrative Frame and of Indices of Orality to Medieval Historical Prose"; Laureen Hurt, "Learning French in the Inner City: Beliefs and Attitudes of Eighth-grade Students"; Sylvie Vanbaelen, "Présence de Pan dans la littérature française de l’entre-deux guerres"; Francesca Parmeggiani, "Presenze Neotestamentarie nella Narrativa Italiana Contemporanea"; Colleen Ryan, "Motherhood and Myth: Female Figures in the Cinema of Paolo Pasolini"; and Mark Friguglietti, "Carlo Levi: The Structure and Significance of ‘Cristo si e fermato a Eboli.’"

Congratulations!

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