Last month, U.S. Fulbright Grantee Carla Baricz won the “Postgraduate Romanian Student of Year Award,” in the North America category. Liga Studenților Români din Străinătate (LSRS) awarded her the prize for her achievements during the 2013-2014 academic year, when Carla was completing her fourth year of doctoral studies at Yale University. In the meantime, as part of her Fulbright research project, Carla is continuing to translate Ion Budai-Deleanu’s epic, the Tiganiada, into English. She has also just finished putting together an essay on Lena Constante’s prison journals, a piece that will be published this year by Punctum Books, as part of a collection on literature under terror being put together by Irina Dumitrescu. Carla has also recently translated a selection of Carmen Firan’s and Dan Sociu’s poems, translations that are forthcoming in National Translation Month. Her recent translation of a section of Constantin Severin’s long poem, “Wall and Neutrino,” appeared in the November 2014 issue of World Literature Today. She continues to review for Words Without Borders, a magazine dedicated to international literature in translation, and is now preparing for her upcoming presentations in March: a talk on Ion Budai Deleanu at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and a conference presentation at the 2015 Renaissance Society of America meeting in Berlin.