Katie Larson wins Polanyi Prize !
vendredi 12 décembre 2008
Posted by: Marie-Christine Muller
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Katherine (Katie) Larson, LGB '96 has won the Polanyi prize in the literature category.
The John Charles Polanyi Prizes are given annually to up to five recipients in Ontario, and are awarded by the provincial government in honour of John Polanyi, a University of Toronto professor and the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The Polanyi Prizes are awarded to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career who are continuing their post-doctoral work at an Ontario university. The prizes have a value of $20,000 each and are available in five categories broadly defined as: physics, chemistry, literature, economic science, and physiology or medicine, to be consistent with the categories for which Nobel Prizes are awarded.
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Photo by Ken Jones |
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BIO: After her graduation from LGB in 1996, Katherine (Katie) Larson completed undergraduate degrees in vocal performance and English literature at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in 2000, where she pursued her Master's work in English literature and Women's Studies, before moving to the University of Toronto in 2003 for her doctoral work. She joined the faculty at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor of English and Women's Studies after completing her PhD in 2007. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 16th and 17th century English literature and women's writing, and she is currently completing a book manuscript on women's conversational strategies and spaces in 16th and 17th century England.
Congratulations, toutes nos sincères félicitations Katie ! |
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