<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_mot1h7rz0" alt="Screenshot 2026-05-05 at 12.46.09 PM.png" width="371" height="463"></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Join Ph.D. candidate in English Jovana Isevski for her Barricelli Memorial Award Lecture this Wednesday, May 6!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">See the QR code for Zoom attendance.</span><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Established in 1997 to honor Dr. Jean-Pierre Barricelli, the grant encourages highly motivated students to pursue comparative studies in literature and another discipline. Awardees receive research support for one quarter and the honor of delivering the Annual Barricelli Public Lecture in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages.</span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>andré m. carrington <br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a><br></div><div>--</div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>The Black Fantastic</i></a>, Library of America, 2025</div><div><a href="https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html" target="_blank"><i>Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination</i></a></div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>