Department of French / en Isabella Huberman wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in literature /celebrates/isabella-huberman-wins-2022-john-charles-polanyi-prize-literature <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Isabella Huberman wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in literature </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-17T10:59:05-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:59" class="datetime">Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:59</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6886" hreflang="en">Department of French</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Photo---Isabella-Huberman-750.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong><i></i>Isabella Huberman</strong>, an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Art &amp; Science’s <a href="https://www.french.utoronto.ca/">department of French</a>, has been awarded the prestigious John Charles&nbsp;Polanyi Prize in literature for 2022.</p> <p>Huberman’s research examines the literature and visual art of Indigenous writers and artists from Manitoba and Quebec who document, contest and reimagine the implications of resource extraction projects –&nbsp;particularly hydropower.</p> <p>“Winning this award means a lot to me,” says Huberman. “I feel very honoured to have my work recognized by an interdisciplinary committee of scholars&nbsp;and, more importantly, for the study of Indigenous literatures in French to gain this recognition and receive the attention this visionary body of literature deserves.”</p> <p>The <a href="https://cou.ca/resources/awards/">Polanyi Prize</a> is awarded each year to as many as five researchers from Ontario universities in the early stages of their career. Given by the Ontario Council of Universities, it is named in honour of <strong><a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">John Polanyi</a></strong>, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus </a>in the faculty’s <a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">department of chemistry</a> and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.</p> <p>This year, all five prizes were awarded to faculty at the Ƶ.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/indigenous-literary-studies-scholar-isabella-huberman-awarded-polanyi-prize-literature">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:59:05 +0000 lanthierj 179157 at