Campus Digest

English PhD student wins best essay award from international language society

23 Sep 2016

Ivan Delazari, a PhD candidate of the Department of English Language and Literature, has recently won the Best Graduate Student Essay competition organised by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) with his essay “Diegetic Music: Who is Listening, and What is Heard?”

Ivan is pleased to have won the ISSN award, saying that the award notification came as a real surprise. “I’m glad I won the prize, mainly because it motivates me to continue with narrative theory, an exciting interdisciplinary field. I am also grateful for the honour and proud to represent HKBU in the two subsequent award announcements by ISSN during the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia and at the 2017 Narrative Conference in Lexington, USA.”

Ivan has been invited to submit an extended version of the essay to Narrative, the journal of narrative theory published by the Ohio State University Press.