| Wasserman wins literary prize | Wasserman wins literary prize | | 12/9/2022 5:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Sarah Wasserman</strong>,
associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for
Material and Culture Studies, won the 1921 Prize in American
Literature from the journal <em>American Literary History</em> for her 2021 article “<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/859223/summary" target="_blank">Critical Darlings, Critical Dogs: Joseph O’Neill and What Contemporary Criticism Doesn’t Want”</a>.
The essay argues that the drive within literary studies to name new
paradigms obscures key historical continuities in contemporary fiction.
To explore this problem, Wasserman turns to Joseph O’Neill’s <em>The Dog </em>(2014), a novel mostly panned or ignored by critics. <em>The Dog</em> courts its status as an outcast by confounding readers’ expectations of novelty.<br></p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=263 | |
| Lewis-Timmons nominates Alice Dunbar-Nelson, for inclusion in the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame | Lewis-Timmons nominates Alice Dunbar-Nelson, for inclusion in the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame | | 10/14/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Monet Lewis-Timmons</strong>, a doctoral candidate in the Department of
English, successfully nominated the noted Delaware writer, teacher,
suffragist, civil rights and peace activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson, for
inclusion in the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame. At the induction event
on Oct. 12, 2022, Lewis-Timmons provided the audience with a sketch of
Dunbar-Nelson's life and accomplishments. Alice Dunbar-Nelson's papers
are housed in the UD Library's Special Collections Department.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#d586cffd-ad4b-45b9-8581-f6a2bbf70d87;L0|#0d586cffd-ad4b-45b9-8581-f6a2bbf70d87|Presentations;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=236 | |
| Yagoda selected as MacDowell Fellow | Yagoda selected as MacDowell Fellow | byagoda; | 9/23/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Ben Yagoda</strong>, professor emeritus of English, has been selected as a
MacDowell Fellow, which will enable him to stay at its residential
center in New Hampshire where he will be working in a new area for him –
fiction. MacDowell, the nation’s first arts residency program, awards
fellowships to artists in multiple disciplines. This year's incoming
group includes artists from nine countries and 21 U.S. states, chosen
from 2,948 applicants, the largest pool in MacDowell’s history. At
MacDowell, fellows are provided a private studio, three meals a day and
accommodations for a period of up to six weeks. For more than a century,
MacDowell has provided uninterrupted time to reflect, innovate, study,
practice and create, and its fellows have contributed significantly to
American and world culture and have been honored with numerous awards
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| Brown wins literary prize | Brown wins literary prize | | 9/2/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Fleda Brown</strong>,
professor emerita of English and poet laureate of Delaware from
2001-2007, was the winner of the 2021 Hollis Summers Prize for her book
of poems, <em>Flying Through a Hole in the Storm. The Hollis Prize is a</em> competition
of the Ohio University Press inviting writers to submit unpublished
collections of original poems. Her latest collection of essays, the
product of 10 years of essay writing, is titled <em>Mortality with Friends</em>, and will be launched Sept. 7, 2022, by Wayne State University Press.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=206 | |
| Jebb publishes article | Jebb publishes article | | 7/22/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>John F. Jebb</strong>, associate professor in English, contributed an article on "Detective and Mystery Fiction" to the newly published <em>The Routledge Companion to Literature of</em> <em>the U.S. South</em>.
Jebb earlier coauthored (with J. K. Van Dover) a book about Southern
detective writers, and he has revived the undergraduate course in
detective fiction and film, cross-listed as English and criminal
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| Six faculty members recognized for outstanding work | Six faculty members recognized for outstanding work | | 6/10/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p>Six faculty members have been recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences for outstanding work. <a href="https://www.cas.udel.edu/news/Pages/cas-faculty-excellence-awards-2022.aspx">The 2022 honorees</a>
“embody the excellence of all of our faculty across the college,” Dean
John A. Pelesko said in announcing the award recipients at the college’s
convocation ceremony on May 27. They are: <strong>Laura Helton</strong>, assistant professor of English and history, for outstanding advocacy; <strong>Sarah Wasserman</strong>, associate professor of English, outstanding advising; <strong>Edward Larkin</strong>, professor of English, excellence in faculty mentoring; <strong>John Morgan</strong>, associate professor of physics and astronomy, outstanding service; <strong>Carolyn White Bartoo</strong>, associate instructor of communication, excellence in teaching; and <strong>Jennifer Barker</strong>, professor of music, outstanding scholarship.<br></p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=187 | |
| Goldstein publishes book | Goldstein publishes book | | 5/27/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Philip Goldstein</strong>, professor emeritus of English, Is the author of T<em>he Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison and Morrison</em>,
recently published by Routledge Press. The book examines novels of
William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, as well as Mark Twain and Ralph
Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the
racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and
contemporary culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=181 | |
| Porcher and Hughes named 2022 UDARI Faculty Summer Scholars | Porcher and Hughes named 2022 UDARI Faculty Summer Scholars | | 4/29/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Kisha Porcher</strong>, assistant professor of English, and <strong>Cresean Hughes</strong>,
assistant professor of sociology and social justice, have been named by
the UD Anti-Racism Initiative (UDARI) as the 2022 UDARI Faculty Summer
Scholars. Porcher’s qualitative research study will address the ways
centering Blackness in English education in theory (Black theorists and
ways of knowing) and practice (teaching and best practices from the
Black community) disrupt anti-Blackness in English education programs.
Hughes’s project explores whether an underexplored measure of criminal
justice punitiveness -- capital punishment -- might be associated with
disparities in school discipline for Black and brown students, and asks
if such a relationship exists, under what circumstances it would arise
and for whom the relationship would be most salient.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=174 | |
| McKenna authors new books | McKenna authors new books | | 2/11/2022 5:00:00 AM | | <p><strong></strong><strong>Bernard McKenna</strong>, associate professor of English, is the author of <em>The Baltimore Black Sox: A Negro Leagues History, 1913-1936</em>,
published by McFarland. According to the publisher, this comprehensive
history of the Baltimore Black Sox “examines the social and cultural
forces that gave birth to the club and informed its development. The
author describes aspects of Baltimore’s history in the first decades of
the 20th century, details the team’s year-by-year performance, explores
front-office and management dynamics and traces the shaping of the Negro
Leagues. The history of the Black Sox’s home ballparks and of the
people who worked for the team both on and off the field are included.”</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=150 | |
| Delaware Division of the Arts recognizes faculty and alumni | Delaware Division of the Arts recognizes faculty and alumni | | 1/21/2022 5:00:00 AM | | <p></p><p>The Delaware Division of the Arts has recognized 25 Delaware artists for the high quality of their work, awarding them fellowships in three categories. The 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship honorees, selected from 132 applicants, include several with UD affiliations.</p><p>Fellows in the Established Professional category include <strong>Tim Broscious</strong>, an assistant professor percussion in the School of Music; <strong>Caleb Curtiss</strong>, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English, honored for poetry; <strong>Isai Jess </strong><strong>Muñoz</strong>, associate professor of music, honored for a solo recital; Aaron Terry, an assistant professor of art; and <strong>Mia Muratori</strong> of Wilmington, who earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from UD, honored for painting. Recognized with Emerging Artist Awards were <strong>Christina Durborow</strong>, adjunct faculty in the Department of English, honored for her creative nonfiction writing, and <strong>Stephanie Boateng</strong> of Newark, a recent UD graduate with a major in organizational and community leadership and minors in art and advertising, honored for painting.<br></p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=140 | |
