2023 John A. Lent Scholarship Awarded
The 2023 John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies committee is proud to announce that Cassia Hayward-Fitch (University of East Anglia) has been selected as this year's winner for her submission, “What’s so funny about AIDS?”: How Serial Newspaper Comics Confronted a Crisis.
As noted on the ICAF website: "The Lent Scholarship, named for pioneering teacher and researcher Dr. John Lent, is offered to encourage student research into comic art. ICAF awards the Lent Scholarship to a current student who has authored, or is in the process of authoring, a substantial research-based writing project about comics."
Cassia Hayward-Fitch will deliver the John A. Lent Award Lecture during this year's ICAF conference at the University of British Columbia on April 20, 2023.
This year, ICAF is also pleased to announce that Mattia Arioli (University of Bologna) received an Honorable Mention for his project, "Clement Baloup's Memoires de Viet Kieu: Exploring the Legacy and History of the Vietnamese Diaspora(s)."
For more information on the John A. Lent Award, see the Lent Award page on the ICAF website.
As noted on the ICAF website: "The Lent Scholarship, named for pioneering teacher and researcher Dr. John Lent, is offered to encourage student research into comic art. ICAF awards the Lent Scholarship to a current student who has authored, or is in the process of authoring, a substantial research-based writing project about comics."
Cassia Hayward-Fitch will deliver the John A. Lent Award Lecture during this year's ICAF conference at the University of British Columbia on April 20, 2023.
This year, ICAF is also pleased to announce that Mattia Arioli (University of Bologna) received an Honorable Mention for his project, "Clement Baloup's Memoires de Viet Kieu: Exploring the Legacy and History of the Vietnamese Diaspora(s)."
For more information on the John A. Lent Award, see the Lent Award page on the ICAF website.