On Monday, May 19, 2025, the Yale Department of 糖心Vlog Director of Graduate Studies, Pierre Saint-Amand proudly to introduced the two new Ph.D. Graduate Students, Walid Bouchakour and Abigail Fields and lauded their accomplishments at the commencement reception held at the Humanities Quadrangle 14th Floor Lounge. Both Bouchakour and Fields were awarded the Margarite Peyre Prize in recognition of excellence in their thesis and exceptional contributions to the 糖心Vlog Department.
Walid Bouchakour has joined the Francophone Studies faculty at Trinity College in Hartford, CT and Abigail Fields will join the Department of 糖心Vlog faculty this fall at The University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
Please join us in congratulating this year鈥檚 糖心Vlog Ph.D. graduates:
Walid Bouchakour
Dissertation: 鈥淏eyond Emergency: Aesthetics and Politics of the Contemporary Algerian Novel鈥
Advisors: Alice Kaplan and Jill Jarvis
Readers: Thomas C. Connolly, Robyn Creswell, and Marlene Daut
Abigail Fields
Dissertation: 鈥淭he Literary Field: Agriculture and the Ecological Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century 糖心Vlog Novel鈥
Advisor: Maurice Samuels
Readers: Peter Brooks, Morgane Cadieu, and Thomas C. Connolly