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Jack Quin wins ACIS Best Dissertation Prize

Posted on 27 June 2018

Jack Quin has been awarded the 2018 Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS).

The committee’s award was unanimous and its commendation begins, ‘In a field of outstanding submissions from many different disciplines, Quin's dissertation stood out for the ambition of its argument and its deep engagement with the stakes of interdisciplinary practice’.

Jack’s PhD, on ‘W.B. Yeats. Modern Poetry and the Language of Sculpture’ was awarded in January of this year.  He is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin, and has been awarded an Irish Research Council Research Fellowship for two years starting in the Autumn. 

You can read the full commendation on the ACIS website.