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Graduate receives von Humboldt Fellowship award
2 April 2008
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Dr Carlo Salzani completed his PhD at Monash in 2007. |
Monash graduate, Dr Carlo Salzani has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship award for a post-doctoral study at a German university.
The fellowships are offered world-wide on a competitive basis with the most important criteria for selection being the applicant's publications and the quality and feasibility of their research proposal.
The Fellowship will fund Dr Salzani's research into Pure Violence: Between Messianic Redemption and Radical Destruction at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.
Dr Salzani completed a PhD on Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality at the Monash Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in 2007.
This is the second Humboldt fellowship to have been awarded to a graduate of the centre in the last three years with Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis awarded in 2006.
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