Philip Noonan Wins BUCH Award
Philip Noonan, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has won the Helen G. Allen Humanities Award from the BU Center for the Humanities.
Philip’s award winning paper explores the contributions of avant-garde artist and comedian Ramón Gómez de la Serna to the genre of the lecture. In the paper, Philip analyzes how Gómez de la Serna transformed the lecture from a genre designed for academic argument into one in which the lecturer engages in a vital “risk sport” that inevitably results in the symbolic death of his public persona. This paper represents a small portion of Philip’s doctoral dissertation on the lectures of the poet Federico García Lorca and his contemporaries.
Congratulations, Philip!