Alejandro Garrido, an English and social sciences senior, received a $2,500 scholarship from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, considered the premier national scholarship agency serving Hispanic students.

Garrido, whose primary research interest is American literature before 1865, is a student in UNT’s Honors College and Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. He is working with Richard Joines, a lecturer in English, on a project to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne’s esoteric writing techniques in the prefaces to his novel-length romances, written between 1850 and 1860. Garrido also is writing his Honors thesis on Hawthorne.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree this spring, Garrido plans to earn a doctoral degree and teach at a college or university.