Congratulations to our PhD student Valeria Mora Hernandez who has been named one of the Nanovic Institute's Graduate Fellows in European Studies for the coming academic year. Valeria is finishing a dissertation on identity, violence and female representation in Early Modern Spanish Literature, under the direction of Professor Encarnación Juárez-Almendros. Please join me in congratulating Valeria on this distinction and on her coming work with the Nanovic Institute.