Clare Stainthorp (‘Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet’), Maria Morelli (‘Queer(ing) Gender in Contemporary Italian Women’s Writing: Maraini, Sapienza, Morante’), Nina Valbousquet (‘Rome, Zion, and the Fasces: Italian Catholics and Antisemitism in Europe 1918–1946’) and Mercedes del Campo (‘Alternative Ulsters: Troubles Short Fiction by Women Writers, 1968–1998’) are the winners of the 2017 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition. Their outstanding works in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Modern Italian Studies and Irish Studies, respectively, will be published by Peter Lang between 2018 and 2019. Peter Lang has awarded the prize annually since 2011 to postgraduate students working in fields across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
