Alison Hurley, a Ph.D. candidate in English, will be working during the tenure of her fellowship on a dissertation entitled Resort Conversations: Bath and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. Emphasizing the harmonizing possibilities of “good conversation” (the art of living together with others) in eighteenth-century England, Hurley finds in English resort towns of the period not only the cultural arenas in which, ideally, such conversation could flourish, but also, a coherent and “new” phenomenon of resort culture which, like the novel, arose from and engaged in a peculiar complex of sociohistorical conditions. Alison Hurley has been named Una’s Fellow at the Center this year.