ΦBK Awards $20,000 Sibley Fellowship to Eve Morisi
Eve Morisi is the Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow for 2010.
Morisi (right) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University. She received a B.A. in American civilization and an M.A. in American literature, summa cum laude, from Paris VII University. She also holds an M.A. in French and Romance philology from Columbia University. At Princeton, she was awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship and the Graduate Prize Fellowship of the University Center for Human Values.
Morisi studies 19th and 20th century French prose and poetry, and is particularly interested in literary representations of violence and in the intersection of poetics and ethics. She has published articles investigating these questions in the works of Pierre Corneille, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Albert Camus and the Oulipo. Her dissertation, which the Sibley Fellowship will enable her to finish, examines how three major modern authors, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire and Camus, expose capital punishment and its imaginaire. To complement this thesis, Morisi has recently completed an anthology project that collects Camus’ published and unpublished writings on the death penalty.
The annual Sibley Fellowship has a stipend of $20,000 and is awarded alternately in the fields of Greek and French. The award may be used for the study of Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology, or the study of French language or literature.
Founded in 1934 by a bequest to ΦBK from Miss Isabelle Stone, this fellowship is awarded to unmarried women 25 to 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on original research. They must hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all the requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning to devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year. The award is not restricted to ΦBK members or to U.S. citizens.
For more information about the Sibley Fellowship and other ΦBK awards, call (202) 745-3235 or write to awards@pbk.org.