UVic English alum Kalea Furmanek-Raposo wins the Founders' Circle Award

UVic English alum Kalea Furmanek-Raposo (Honours BA 2023, MA 2025) has won the Founders’ Circle Award at the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada conference (held in Regina 24-25 May) for her conference paper titled “From Villette to Atalanta: 19th-Century Craft Culture and 21st-Century Exhibits.” The Founders’ Circle Award is for the best paper delivered at the VSAWC conference by a graduate student or emergent scholar (up to 5 years post-graduation).

Kalea's co-publication of "Quilling Perspectives: Shaping Literary Analysis Through Critical Crafting Methods" appears in the most recent issue of dh+lib, a special issue dedicated to “Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data.”

Kalea Furmanek-Raposo holds an MA in English from the University of Victoria. Her research interests include nineteenth-century girls’ print culture and women’s writing as well as hands-on learning and digital humanities. She has been a part of the Crafting Communities team since 2021, she was a research assistant on the Great Expectations Pregnancy Project, and she was a 2023 UVic Lowens Fellow.