Professor Mario Ortiz-Robles awarded with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
Professor Mario Ortiz-Robles has been awarded with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award recognizes Professor Ortiz-Robles’ distinguished scholarship as well as his standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible …
June 21, 2022Professor Laila Amine wins Vilas Early Career Investigator Award
Professor Laila Amine is the recipient of a Vilas Early Career Investigator Award for excellence in teaching and research. Professor Amine, who specializes in 20th-century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, will receive research funding …
June 21, 2022Professor Mark Vareschi announced as 2022-23 Vilas Associate
Congratulations to Professor Mark Vareschi, who has been selected as one of 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant …
June 15, 2022Professor Joshua Calhoun wins university-wide distinguished teaching award
Congratulations to Professor Joshua Calhoun, who has received the William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award, one of twelve university-wide distinguished teaching awards. This honor recognizes Professor Calhoun’s innovative approach to teaching Shakespeare, the valuable mentorship that …
June 15, 2022Creative writing news
Creative Writing Professor Beth Nguyen’s essay “Apparent,” first published in The Paris Review, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz, out this week. The National Book Foundation has recognized Assistant Professor Dantiel Moniz and …
October 21, 2021Graduate students engaging in public humanities
Composition and Rhetoric graduate student Kassia Shaw’s work for the HEX program was featured in the Center for the Humanities’ newsletter. For her HEX project, Shaw is sharing the stories that inspired a Ho-Chunk ceramic …
October 20, 2021Professor Dharwadker wins NEH fellowship
Professor Dharwadker, a professor of English and interdisciplinary theatre studies, has won a National Endowment Fellowship to support her latest book project, “Contested Modernities and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India.” The book traces …
October 20, 2021Alt-Ac Webinar
Please join us on September 22 from 10:00am – 11:30 for a webinar on alt-ac careers. Lesley Curtis of Sagely* will be sharing her experience finding enriching work outside traditional academic paths. It promises to be …
September 7, 2021Professor Aparna Dharwadker wins Callaway Prize
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has won the Callaway Prize for A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theater Theory, 1850 to the Present. The Callaway Prize is awarded every two years by NYU’s Department of English, for the best …
July 12, 2021Creative Writing Faculty Win Prestigious Awards
Amy Quan Barry has been awarded a WARF professorship! This is one of the highest research honors the university has to offer. The range of Amy’s scholarship is simply astounding. After four award-winning poetry collections and …
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