Alberto Varon, associate professor of English and director of the Latino Studies Program in the College of Arts of Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded a $215,000 grant by the Mellon Foundation to support a New Directions Fellowship, which are designed to assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. Varon will use the funds to research contemporary Latinx opera, a phenomenon only a decade old but growing rapidly.
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