Marlo Burks wins Amilcare Iannucci Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities

Congratulations to Marlo Burks, who was appointed the first ever Amilcare Iannucci Graduate Fellow in the Humanities at the Jackman Humanities Institute.

Her dissertation on the topic of

Art’s Challenge: An Analysis of the Role of Aesthetics in the Work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

pursues the philosophical theories of Hofmannsthal around the question of why a work of art has — or fails to have — a particular effect on the viewer or reader. In his depiction of the aesthetic encounter with art, she finds that the ethical plays an essential role.