Over the last two decades, the Fulbright Prize in American Studies has shaped the life of more than 30 academics. This year's Fulbright Prize in American Studies has been awarded to Marijana Mikić for her doctoral thesis, entitled Race, Space, and Emotion in Twenty-First-Century African American Literature, which “combines insights from cognitive affective research, narrative theory, African American studies, and Black geographies to examine how African American storyworlds interrogate emotions as varied as fear, hope, shame, guilt, anger, and grief as bound up with racial ideologies and the geographic enforcement of these ideologies.” Marijana was honored for her achievement on 20 October 2023 at the annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS). You can also watch the interview below to learn more about Marijana's thesis.
Marijana Mikić, winner of the 2023 Fulbright Prize in American Studies