Bertony Louis takes up Fellowship at Harvard University

Following his Artist Protection Fellowship at the University of Glasgow in 2022-2023, prize-winning Haitian poet Bertony has been awarded a Scholars-at-Risk Fellowship at Harvard.

Bertony's time as an APF Fellow at Glasgow left a strong impression on SMLC, and staff and students in the School are thrilled at his success in securing this new role at Harvard. Bertony is attached to the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, where he is working on a major new project, 'And the Ocean for Ink'. As in the French-language poetry that Bertony developed and shared at Glasgow, his work at Harvard responds directly to the acute on-going situation in Haiti, linking human conflict and violence to new themes regarding the importance of protecting marine environments and care for the planet in general.

Bertony's nomination to Harvard was supported by Professor Stephen Forcer along with Dr Rachel Douglas and Dr Greg Kerr, and followed the extensive work done by Bertony at Glasgow. Thank you to everyone who supported him during that time. Bertony continues to think fondly of Glasgow - often asking about the weather! - and still to be seen wearing his trademark UofG bobble hat.

Bertony's profile at Harvard is online here. 

A recording of Bertony's first talk at the Hutchins Centre is available here. 

Photograph by Neil Miller, UofG Photographic Unit



Dr Erin McNulty pens prize-winning article

Dr Erin McNulty has been awarded the prestigious Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for 2024 for her interdisciplinary article ‘Aavioghey as Y Breear: Language Revitalization and the Manx Verbal System’, published in the Journal of Celtic Linguistics in 2023. The article is based on her MPhil research on Manx Gaelic which was conducted at the University of Cambridge. You can read the article here.

Awarded by Societas Celtologica Europaea, a European society to promote cooperation among scholars working in all the Celtic languages and literatures, the Prize is for the best article written by a pre-doctoral researcher. As part of the prize, Erin has won three years of membership to the Society, which she intends to use to full effect!

First published: 29 January 2025

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