We're pleased to announce that Mélissa Gélinas successfully defended her dissertation, "Heterolanguage in Twenty-First-Century Cinema and Literature: Transnational Mediations,” with Frieda Ekotto chairing the committee of Nilo Couret, Jarrod Hayes, Daniel Herbert, and Christi A. Merrill. Brava! Mélissa has already started her two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Concordia University in Montreal.