{"id":3876,"date":"2018-09-27T18:04:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:42:41","slug":"ma-alum-don-rodrigues-wins-dissertation-award-and-mellon-postdoc-at-vanderbilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/news\/ma-alum-don-rodrigues-wins-dissertation-award-and-mellon-postdoc-at-vanderbilt\/","title":{"rendered":"MA Alum Don Rodrigues Wins Dissertation Award and Mellon Postdoc at Vanderbilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>URI English BA and MA alum Don Rodrigues successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Vanderbilt this past May. His dissertation,&nbsp;<em>Virtue Reality: Axiology and Imagination in the English Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;<em>, <\/em>which&nbsp;emerged directly out of his MA thesis (under the direction of Professor Travis Williams)<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>won Vanderbilt English Departments\u2019s Robert Manson Myers Prize for best&nbsp;dissertation of the year. He currently holds a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2018\/06\/11\/vanderbilt-center-for-digital-humanities-names-mellon-fellows\/\">Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/a> in the Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI English BA and MA alum Don Rodrigues successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Vanderbilt this past May. His dissertation,&nbsp;Virtue Reality: Axiology and Imagination in the English Renaissance&nbsp;, which&nbsp;emerged directly out of his MA thesis (under the direction of Professor Travis Williams)&nbsp;won Vanderbilt English Departments\u2019s Robert Manson Myers Prize for best&nbsp;dissertation of the year. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":3879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}