News
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and French Anna Levett Receives Prestigious ACLS Fellowship
June 3, 2022
Amanda Nagy
The ACSL Fellowship focuses its support on early-career, untenured scholars. In addition to funding, the award will allow Levett to decrease her teaching load and devote more time to her current book project on surrealism in Arab literature.
![Anna Levett portrait Anna Levett](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2022/annalevett-trj.jpg?itok=mkUA2FHK)
Watson Fellowship Winner to Explore Grief and Loss Across Cultures
May 2, 2022
Yvonne Gay
Molly Gleydura’s desire to understand the grieving process and gain strategies that will assist families with the loss of a child will take her to New Zealand, Senegal, El Salvador, and Ireland this summer on a Watson Fellowship.
![A portrait of a female college student sitting next to flowers on a brick wall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2022/mollygleduraportrait.tanyarosenjonees97.jpeg?itok=d2ea66Jq)
TAPIF Fellow Plans to Challenge the Educational Norms
July 19, 2021
Yvonne Gay
While on a Teaching Assistant Program in France Fellowship, Jules Taylor ’21 hopes to learn who she is as an educator, while absorbing everything she can about the culture, language, and food of Paris.
![A portrait of a college student standing next to a library bookshelf.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2021/jules_taylor.jonathanclark25.jpg?itok=nx402yhj)
Megan Grabill '21 Receives Fulbright Fellowship in Benin
May 20, 2021
Amanda Nagy
Grabill will combine her background in anthropology and fluency in French language to become immersed in the culture of Benin.
![Megan Grabill '21 Megan Grabill.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2021/megan_grabill_news-jonathan_clark_25.jpg?itok=p3kx3kho)
Student Brings Expertise to Discussion on Arab Youth and Resilience
December 17, 2020
Amanda Nagy
An international student from Jordan, Marah Ajilat discussed COVID-19-era job prospects in a panel discussion hosted by The Hill.
![Marah Ajilat Panel Discussion Screen capture of an online panel discussion with text that reads Arab Youth and the COVID-19 Era.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/marah_ajilat-panel.png?itok=a1KwU_Xn)
A Flutist’s French Connection
May 15, 2020
Erich Burnett
Fulbright honor for Karisma Palmore ’20 supports international music studies and language research.
![Fulbrith student Karisma Palmore.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/karisma_palmore.jpg?itok=O71sEMDm)
Culture Writing with Sophie Kemp ’18
February 18, 2019
Phoebe Pan ’20
After graduating as a French and comparative literature double major, Sophie Kemp ’18 has been working at Pitchfork to kick-start her interests in culture writing.
![Sophie Kemp ’18 Sophie Kemp standing against a brick wall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/sophie_kemp_headshot_0.jpg?itok=y-JdUiI1)
Mallory Cohen '15 Receives Fulbright ETA Fellowship to Côte d'Ivoire
June 14, 2016
Kasey Cheydleur
During her fellowship, Cohen looks forward to learning about the French language from an Ivorian perspective and continuing her study of West African photography.
![Mallory Cohen](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs70149_0.jpg?itok=dlzunnPL)
Filming Wine in France
February 8, 2016
Chloe Vassot
Thomas Chevrier, French lecturer and faculty in residence at French House, led a group of students to wine country during winter term to document the iconic French art of winemaking.
![Film crew at a vineyard](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/wine-making_wt_photo_1_0.jpg?itok=dDkI5TA3)
Running Around the World
January 8, 2013
Liv Combe
Back from training with athletes on three continents, Joanna Johnson ’11 has learned a thing or two about what motivates people to run — including herself.
![Joanna Johnson ’11 running along an asphalt path.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/2013-01-08-news_0.png?itok=k5et1a_s)