Professors Gail Bulman, Myrna García-Calderón, and Alicia Ríos will receive from the Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor an award for their LELACS(Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies)/Global Literatures and Cultures Working Group to organize two events: A spring 2016 LELACS conference on "Transatlantic Studies, Local and Global Readings" and (with Tomoko Walter) a lecture by Joanne Bernardi on “Re-envisioning Japan through Digital Humanities.”  Total amount: $4,000.