Doctoral Student Emily White Receives Kress Fellowship for Immersive Language Study in Middlebury

Doctoral student Emily White was awarded the Kress Language School Fellowship to attend Middlebury Language School. Due to the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Emily spent seven weeks this summer in Vermont completing Middlebury’s language immersion program as one of the 2023 Kress Fellows in German.

The language education and experience gained at Middlebury will facilitate Emily’s research for her forthcoming dissertation, “Visual Surgery: Printing Reproductions in Early Modern Europe.” This dissertation will examine issues of early modern rhetoric, the history of medical graphics, and the dissemination of vernacular knowledge through printed surgical manuals, primarily produced in German in the sixteenth century.