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Comparative literature student runner-up for national prize

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A senior in comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named a runner-up in this year’s Norton Scholar’s Prize competition for her paper “An Inexhaustible Surface: the Subversive Meditations of Italo Calvino.”

Emily Baldoni of Normal will receive $1,000 as a runner-up. Her essay was one of more than 200 entries. The Norton Scholar’s Prize is awarded annually by W.W. Norton and Co. for an outstanding undergraduate essay on a literary topic.

Baldoni was nominated by professor Michael Palencia-Roth after writing the essay for his Comparative Literature 202 class.



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