University of Dallas Doctoral Candidate Leta Sundet Awarded Prestigious Weaver Fellowship

2017 Jun 5

University of Dallas doctoral candidate Leta Sundet of Bolton, Connecticut, was recently awarded the prestigious Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Sundet is currently pursuing her doctorate in literature in the Institute of Philosophic Studies (IPS).

One of four fellowships available through the ISI's Graduate Fellowship Program, the Weaver Fellowship awards up to $15,000 to students intending to use their advanced degrees to teach.

“My professors and fellow graduate students at the University of Dallas are who I model myself after — careful scholars, full of humility, curiosity and affection for their disciplines and their students,” said Sundet. “This award gives me the opportunity to focus the next year on teaching and writing, for which I’m particularly grateful.”

Sundet instructs and mentors students in the University of Dallas English Department and hopes to continue teaching college-level literature. She received her Master of Arts in Theology and Letters and her bachelor's in liberal arts from New Saint Andrews College. Her current research interests include Jane Austen and Isak Dinesen.