Dr Ruth Glynn from the Department of Italian has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship of £14,850 and two non-stipendiary fellowships at leading women's studies centres in the USA to work on her research project, 'Women, Terror and Trauma in Italian Culture'.

From September to December 2009, she will be an Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, based at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and from January to May 2010 she will be a Visiting Global Scholar at Rutgers University's Institute for Research on Women.

While in residence at these two institutions, she will be completing a book on cultural representations of women's participation in domestic terrorism in Italy in the period known as the 'anni di piombo' (years of lead), c. 1969-1983.

The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the first Lord Leverhulme. It is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing funds of some £50 million every year. Information about the schemes that The Leverhulme Trust funds is available on their website.