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Please join me in congratulating English PhD candidate Sharon Kunde, who has just won a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2016-2017 for her dissertation entitled "Down in the Dirt: Undoing Transcendentalism." In this national competition, there were over a thousand applications and sixty-six awards granted; the award itself is generous. Go, Sharon!