Pamela L. Cheek, professor of French and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico, delivered a lecture and accepted the 2022 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, administered by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Cheek was awarded the humanities cycle prize for her book “Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century,” published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. For more about the Laura Shannon Prize or to see the archive of lectures and winners, visit https://nanovic.nd.edu/lsprize.