The Canadian Studies Program is pleased to announce that Erin Dunbar has been awarded an Edward E. Hildebrand Research Fellowship for Summer 2025.
Erin is a PhD student in the Department of French studying multilingualism in 19th century French, Russian, and Québécois literatures. Her research investigates changing literary depictions of other languages in relation to Standard French as emerging conceptions of nationalism required linguistic uniformity. Her Hildebrand Fellowship will support research on the Quebec genre of the roman du terroir, or novel of the earth/land, and how those novels obscured a complicated linguistic reality behind an idealized, literary depiction of Quebec. The Fellowship will allow her to visit Montreal and Quebec City to conduct research in the National Archives.
Erin holds a BA in French Language and Literature and Comparative Literature from Northwestern University, and an MA in French Language and Literature from UC Berkeley.