the college record I FELLOWSHIP ELECT I O N S Research Fellows HEATHER BRINK - ROBY has been elected to a Henry Lumley Research Fellowship in English. Her current research focuses on typological thinking in the nineteenthcentury novel; she has published on consciousness in literature, theoretical diagrams, and mythological creatures. Her interests include the novel, history of science, narrative theory, and theory of representation. She is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Harvard, where she held a Javits Fellowship, is a Presidential Scholar, and has taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literature. After receiving her AB in History and Literature at Harvard, she completed an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge (Trinity College) as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow; her awards included best AB thesis in modern literature, best AB thesis in history and literature and best MPhil dissertation in history and philosophy of science. She plans to work on philosophical logic and the novel, as well as the idea of care in literature. has been elected to a Thomas Nevile Research Fellowship in Mathematics. He is a French post-doc in the Fluid Mechanics Group at the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. In 2007, at the end of his undergraduate studies at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), he did a lab internship in Cambridge on the study of large air bubbles rising through water. This fourmonth internship is at the root of his passion for fluid mechanics. He won the First Prize in Mechanics of the Ecole Polytechnique for his identification of a new type of bubbles. After completing a Master of Engineering degree at the National University of Singapore, he came back to Cambridge in 2009 to start a PhD at the BP Institute and the DAMTP. His PhD research focused on the dispersion and mixing of pollutants in river flows. He is currently interested in decontamination processes on surfaces, a research applicable to chemical warfare and dishwashers.Research aside, Julien loves cooking, music, plays the piano and sings with various choirs. JULIEN LANDEL
Parnell Fellow CLAIR WILLS is Professor of Irish Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She completed her doctorate at Oxford in 1989, and her first publications were as a critic of contemporary Northern Irish poetry, examining representations of history and politics in the work of writers such as Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian and Tom Paulin. During the 1990s she was involved in a large scale collaborative project dedicated to anthologizing Irish women’s writing, published as The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women’s Writing (2002). Since then her focus
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