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Memphis Commercial Appeal
April 30, 2026, 6:00 a.m. CT
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Dr. Scott Newstok, professor of English and executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College, was awarded a four-year grant from the State Research Agency of Spain. The award will support his scholarship on the multilingual heritage of early modern English across legal, religious, political and literary discourses. Newstok’s project was one of 37 funded among 254 applications in the three-year history of Spain’s research program. He is the second recipient who works in the humanities and the only recipient from a liberal arts college. To conduct this research, Newstok will return to the institution that hosted him as a 2022 Fulbright Scholar, the University of Murcia. He will continue as executive director of Rhodes’ Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities through Oct. 1.
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