ACLS Fellows in the News. Hilary E. Fox F'10 wins Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Award in the Humanities. Named in honor of a Notre Dame alumnus and his wife, the award recognizes the top graduating doctoral degree recipients in the Graduate School’s four divisions.

Fox’s work has provided groundbreaking insights into medieval concepts of mental activity and understanding. With a book on the educational program of King Alfred the Great at the end of the ninth century forthcoming, she is researching a second book on forms of madness in Old English poetry and saints’ lives. She has already authored five publications in journals of the first rank in medieval literary studies, including Philogical Quarterly and The Review of English Studies. Fox has been contracted by the Cornell University Press to prepare a student edition of the well-known medieval poem, “The Owl and the Nightingale.”