Professor McNamer awarded Guggenheim and Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships

Professor Sarah McNamer has won a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship, which is awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to “trailblazing” scholars and artists. This year, 223 fellows were chosen from a highly competitive pool of nearly 5000 applicants. Fellows, who are selected on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise, are free to pursue their scholarship or art under “the freest possible conditions.”

Professor McNamer says she is feeling doubly fortunate, for she was also awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she will spend the 2026-27 academic year in residence at the School of Historical Studies. Professer McNamer’s research focuses on the intersection between medieval literature and the history of emotion. These fellowships will support work on her book on the Middle English Pearl Poet.