Professor Geraldine Heng awarded residential research fellowship

Geraldine Heng has been awarded a residential research fellowship by the ten-campus Humanities Research Institute of the University of California, to enable her to participate in the Institute's Spring 2011 research seminar, "Holy War Redux," a seminar she conceptualized in collaboration with California faculty. Heng taught "Holy War Redux" as an English department graduate seminar in Spring 2009, and has a forthcoming article in PMLA, also entitled "Holy War Redux."

Geraldine Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies. She holds the Perceval endowment for Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture, an endowment created to support her research and teaching.