Third year PhD student Lauryn Anderson has been awarded a prestigious Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship to attend Princeton University for the academic year 2024-25.

Procter fellowships, nominated by the trustees of Oxford and Cambridge, are awarded on both the basis of a very high standard of academic achievement, as well as in recognition of fellows’ wider involvement within the social, cultural and community life of their university. At Cambridge, Lauryn has organised various reading groups, events and conferences, including the University-funded research network Ambivalent Archives, the Faculty of English Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar, and the interdisciplinary reading group activist/aesthetics. She is also involved in widening-participation and outreach work, and is a graduate rep for the #Justice4CollegeSupervisors UCU campaign and a regular volunteer for the Cambridge Community Kitchen.

Fellows, who receive a full stipend, live in Princeton’s Graduate College and are able to take classes across the graduate school in addition to developing their own academic projects. Lauryn will be developing her PhD work on the politics of literary mediation, global docu-poetics and literary ethics, as well as taking classes in Princeton’s English, Politics and Philosophy departments.

Previous Procter Fellows include literary critics Eric Griffiths, René Wellek, and Joe Moshenska, poets Al Alvarez and F.T. Prince, as well as computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing.

More details about the fellowship can be found here.