College of Arts and Sciences spotlights English PhD Anselma Prihandita's award-winning short fiction

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English PhD (2025) Anselma Prihandita. Photo by Juan Rodriguez.

Anselma Prandhita, 2025, a PhD in language and rhetoric, was profiled by the College of Arts and Sciences last summer. A scholar of speculative fiction and the English language, Prihandita completed a dissertation that explores writing challenges faced by historically marginalized students, while also producing short stories in the speculative fiction genre. One of her stories, "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being,” won a prestigious Nebula Award. To read more about Prihandita's work, click here: Balancing Sci-Fi and Scholarship.

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