Sophia Veltfort ’12 has been selected as a 2012 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship, established in 1953 to “express the continuing gratitude of the British people” for the help rendered to Britain after World War II by the Marshall Plan, provides funding to American students for two to three years of study at a British university of their choice. Sophia plans to spend the first year at Oxford, working on a master’s thesis on the literary portrayal of consciousness, and the second year at Cambridge, pursuing an M.Phil. A literary scholar whom Karl Young Professor of English Leslie Brisman calls “a refreshingly independent spirit, less a tweaker of others’ ideas than a savvy self-reviser,” Sophia is also an abundantly gifted creative writer. “Missing,” a personal essay on her lifelong search for her biological father, was a finalist in the Norman Mailer College Writing Awards and has been accepted for publication by the Harvard Review. Novelist Michael Cunningham will serve as Sophia’s Writing Concentration adviser this spring, when she begins her first novel.