| UDARI Faculty Fellowship Award for Spring 2021 | <p><strong>Jessica Edwards</strong>, Associate Professor, has been awarded the UDARI Faculty Fellowship Award, along with Kisha Porcher, for her Black Racial Literacy Roundtable proposal. This
roundtable would focus on the following goals: * Develop a safe space for
Black faculty to process racism they have experienced; * Glean mental, physical
and social health strategies; * Report anonymous
information (based on permission) to the Anti-Racism subcommittees to develop
useful policies to dismantle the racism that Black Faculty experience; * Present findings from
our affinity space at conferences to inform other universities focused on
anti-racism initiatives; and * Write at least one
manuscript to document the findings of the Black Racial Literacy
Roundtable.</p> | Edwards, Jessica | edwardsj | | |
| UDARI Faculty Fellowship Award for Spring 2021 | <p><strong>Kisha Porcher</strong>, Assistant Professor, has been awarded the UDARI Faculty Fellowship Award, along with Jessica Edwards, for her Black Racial Literacy Roundtable proposal. This
roundtable would focus on the following goals: * Develop a safe space for
Black faculty to process racism they have experienced; * Glean mental, physical
and social health strategies; * Report anonymous
information (based on permission) to the Anti-Racism subcommittees to develop
useful policies to dismantle the racism that Black Faculty experience; * Present findings from
our affinity space at conferences to inform other universities focused on
anti-racism initiatives; and * Write at least one
manuscript to document the findings of the Black Racial Literacy
Roundtable.</p> | Porcher, Kisha | kporcher | | |
| William Riley Parker Award | <p><strong>Sarah Wasserman,</strong> assistant professor, has been awarded the William Riley Parker Prize, by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), for her article published in their May 2020 issue of <em>PMLA</em>. The committee’s citation reads:
'Sarah Wasserman’s “Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, and the Persistence of Urban Forms”
is a beautifully written essay on the political and temporal paradoxes of what we now call
gentrification. Wasserman provides a compelling account of the formal strategies that
Ellison and Himes developed to show “how infrastructure registers urban change,
congealing past and present” and thereby disrupting simple notions of loss, preservation,
and progress. Instead of seeing Ellison and Himes as writing in antithetical genres,
aesthetic registers, and fictional forms—pulp detective story versus psychologically
realistic novel—we can understand them both as using “the conventions of the novel as a
backdrop against which they plot formal changes and social transformations that remain
incomplete.” Wasserman demonstrates that by examining treatments of objects and urban
spaces, rather than explorations of human psychology, we can reevaluate the taxonomies
we use to value and understand literature and the political histories it mediates.'</p> | Wasserman, Sarah | swasser | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Advocacy Award | <p><strong>Jill Flynn</strong>, professor of English Education received the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award for Advocacy in recognition of the ways she has championed to expose systemic inequalities in education and propose courses of action to confront and change them. While focusing her energy on teaching, advising and teacher preparation, she is also a scholar and voice of the unheard and is a major force of change on campus and in the greater community.</p> | Flynn, Jill | jeflynn | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Scholarship Award | <p><strong>Kristen Poole,</strong> Ned B. Allen Professor of English, was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Award of Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship. Dr. Poole, who earned a graduate degree in theology in 2019 to deepen and expand her mastery of the field of English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, is described as a dedicated, multidimensional scholar and teacher. Her first-rate scholarship includes two books, 25 articles and three co-edited volumes.</p> | Poole, Kristen | kpoole | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award | <p> Jessica Edwards, associate professor of English, received the College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching award. Dr. Edwards is recognized for her successful, socially conscious and innovative teaching practices that break down the barriers of freshman resistance and arouse student interest in Technical English and Written Communication in Business. She engages her students by making them feel valued both as individuals and as members of a collaborative learning community.</p> | Edwards, Jessica | edwardsj | | |
| Donald G. Davis Award | <p><strong>Laura Helton</strong>, assistant professor has received the Donald G. Davis Award from the American Library Association's Library History Round Table for her 2019 article in <em>PMLA,</em>“On Decimals,
Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading.” The award is presented every even-numbered year to recognize the best article written in English in the field of United States and Canadian library history. The award honors Donald G. Davis, longtime professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas and editor of Libraries & the Cultural Record. This article, which honors Dorothy Porter's work at Howard,
has now been recognized by the three professional associations--MLA, AAIHS, and
ALA--that together represent Laura’s areas of cross-disciplinary work: literary
studies, African American history, and libraries and archives. </p><p> </p> | Helton, Laura | lehelton | | |
| General University Research Grant | <p><strong>Brooke Jamieson Stanley</strong>, assistant professor of environmental humanities in the <a href="https://www.english.udel.edu/">Department of English</a>, has been awarded a General University Research Grant to pursue archival research in South Africa to complete <em>Intimate Planet: Consumption and the Global Environmental Novel</em>. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation, with each chapter examining a novelist in conjunction with a movement in environmental justice activism focusing on the global agro-food system. It is also spotlighting writers of color from South Africa, South Asia and the United States in the work.</p> | Stanley, Brooke Jamieson | bstanley | | |
| 2020 Finalist for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award | <p><strong>Siobhan Carroll</strong>, whose novelette “For He Can Creep” (2019)
is a finalist for the 2020 <strong>Nebula Award </strong>for best science fiction or
fantasy work published in the United States and for the 2020<strong> Hugo Award</strong>,
the international literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works
published in the previous year. </p> | Carroll, Siobhan | sicarrol | | |
| Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Grant | <p><strong>Dawn Fallik</strong> is part of a team of faculty who have been
awarded an Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center grant for their
Humanities for STEM project, <em>Crafting Healthcare</em>. The grant will
provide funds to support the curricular development for a pilot course slated
to run Spring 2021. [HLTH467/ENG409/WOMS467 Crafting Healthcare]. </p> | Fallik, Dawn | dfallik | | |
| 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award | <p><strong>Jill Flynn</strong>, Associate Professor, has been awarded the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award.<br></p> | Flynn, Jill | jeflynn | | |
| 2020 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize - Runner-up | <p>
</p><p><strong>Iain Crawford</strong>’s <a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-contested-liberalisms.html" target="_blank"><em>Contested
Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press</em></a>
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019) was named runner up for the 2020 Robert and
Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize awarded by the Research Society in Victorian
Periodicals for the best book on the periodical press. The review committee described
this as “an impressively weighty and lucid book that negotiates its way
carefully through its tripartite interests in liberalism, transatlantic
cross-cultural exchange and the development of the periodical press. It offers
new approaches to both Martineau and Dickens in its scholarly study of their
contrasting contributions to emerging formulations of progressive social theory
in ways that richly reveal the intellectual heft and significance of their
writings in the context of the development of liberal thought. Crawford draws
out the details of their relationship masterfully in this sophisticated and
erudite work that is full of rich detail related with minute attention to
scholarly conversation. A pleasure to read, this book is an important contribution
to the history of the periodical press, to Dickens studies, and especially to
our understanding of the importance of Harriet Martineau.”</p> | Crawford, Iain | icrawf | | |
| AERA Division K, Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award | <p><strong>Deborah Bieler</strong>, professor of English, has been honored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K with its Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award, recognizing her book <em>The Power of Teacher Talk: Promoting Equity and Retention Through Student Interactions</em>. In announcing the award, AERA cited Bieier’s work for its innovative research design, important insights into the work of equity-oriented teachers and critical implications for teacher education. The award, for a journal article or book published between January 2018 and July 2019, gives special consideration to work that advances equity, generates insights that hold promise for ensuring the preparation of teachers who are equipped to serve all students, and reflects the highest standards of methodological rigor. </p> | Bieler, Deborah | deb | | |
| Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize | <p><strong>Laura Helton</strong>, assistant Professor has been awarded the 2020 Maria Stewart Article Prize for the best journal article in Black intellectual history by the The African American Intellectual History Society for the article ."On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading" <em>PMLA</em> 134.1 (2019): 99-120. Named after abolitionist and women's rights activist-intellectual Maria Stewart, the prize recognizes the best journal article concerning black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published between January 2019 and December 2019 by a member of AAIHS. The winner will receive a monetary award, a certificate, and a featured spot on Black Perspectives. </p> | Helton, Laura | lehelton | | |
| Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | <p><strong>Laura Helton, </strong>assistant professor has been awarded a one-semester fellowship for the academic year 2019-2020<br></p> | Helton, Laura | lehelton | | |
| Leadership Award for People with Disabilities | <p><strong>Stephanie L. Kerschbaum</strong>, associate professor of English, has received
the 2019 <a href="http://www2.ncte.org/awards/ncte-leadership-award-disabilities/">Leadership
Award for People with Disabilities</a> from the National Council of Teachers of
English. The award recognizes a person with a disability who has made a
significant contribution to the council and to the development of its
professional community. Kerschbaum, the author of the award-winning <em>Toward a
New Rhetoric of Difference</em>, is the 2019-20 scholar in residence at the
National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan.</p> | Kerschbaum, Stephanie | kersch | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award | <p><strong>Stephanie Kerschbaum</strong>, associate professor of English, was the first recipient of the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for her dedication and commitment to supporting, encouraging and promoting a positive and inclusive scholarly and teaching environment. She was recognized for her contributions to the quality of life and professional development of new faculty members, both within and beyond the college's research or degree programs.</p> | Kerschbaum, Stephanie | kersch | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award | <p><strong>Deborah Biel</strong><strong>er,</strong> associate professor of English who oversees the English education major, was presented the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award for classes that were described as promoting stimulating discussions and growth in a very positive environment, while maintaining academic rigor and high standards. Beyond campus, she initiated a service learning project in which her students help prepare students at Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington for the essay portion of the SAT exam.</p> | Bieler, Deborah | deb | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Scholarship Award | <p><strong>Julian Yates</strong>,H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, who a few years ago received the "Enfant Terrible" Award from The Hudson Strode Program, honoring "the 12 most brilliant scholars in the world under 40" in the field of Renaissance studies, received the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Scholarship Award. His scholarly work has been described as prolific and dazzling, with titles that range from <em>What's the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?</em> to <em>Of Sheep, Oranges and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression.</em></p> | Yates, Julian | jyates | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Advocacy Award | <p><strong>P. Gabrielle Foreman, </strong>Ned B. Allen Professor of English and professor of Africana studies and history, was presented the College of Arts & Sciences inaugural Outstanding Advocacy Award in recognition of her collaborative work in promoting, fostering and implementing an inclusive environment and celebrating multiculturalism. She was honored for her success in recruiting, advising and mentoring students and faculty, working for curriculum change and leading the way in innovative educational projects such as the Colored Conventions Project, the cornerstone of UD's "Next Generation Ph.D." initiative.</p> | Foreman, Gabrielle | gforeman | | |
| Lithic Press Chapbook Prize | <p><strong>Devon, Miller-Duggan</strong>, assistant professor has been awarded the Lithic Press Chapbook Prize for "<em>The Slow Salute"</em><em>, a wonderful collection of poems. </em>Like Herodotus narratives,
the Slow Salute evokes images of foreign battlefields and the one heartache
that howls through the ages. The entirety is a manual of ritual behavior, the
remains of a fallen warrior returned to loved ones: the container, the hand
off, the boot strap, the gun salute. The intense description transcends time,
its straightforward verse becomes a hum, a song, a plea, and the weight of
someone lost is felt and difficult.</p> | Miller-Duggan, Devon | dmd | | |
| Whiting Foundation fellowship | <p><strong>David Kim</strong>, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a $50,000
Whiting Foundation fellowship to create a yearlong project in the public
humanities. “Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Vision for Wilmington” will aim to restore
the legacy of an African American woman of letters who lived in Wilmington and
will include adult reading groups, K-12 curriculum workshops and the creation
of a website and public art. The collaborative, community engagement project
will be a partnership among UD, which houses Dunbar-Nelson’s papers, and area
nonprofits including the Christina Cultural Arts Center, Creative Vision
Factory and Delaware Historical Society. The fellowship is one of seven awarded
for 2019 by the <a href="https://www.whiting.org/scholars/public-engagement-programs/about">Whiting
Public Engagement Program</a>, which supports public engagement by humanities
faculty.</p> | | | | |
| NEH Summer Stipend | <p><strong>Laura Helton</strong>, assistant professor, has been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on her book project, "<em>T</em><em>he Making of African-American Archives, 1910-1950.</em>" The award supports full-time work by a scholar on a humanities project for a period of two months.</p> | Helton, Laura | lehelton | | |
| William Riley Parker Prize | <p><strong>Laura E. Helton</strong>, assistant professor of English and history, has received an honorable mention in the Modern Language Association’s competition for the annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in <em>PMLA</em>, the association’s journal of literary scholarship. Helton’s article, “On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading,” appeared in the journal’s January 2019 issue and was cited by the awards committee as an “astute, passionate and eye-opening essay” that is “beautifully written [and] skillfully organized.” Helton is currently a scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.</p> | Helton, Laura | lehelton | | |
| Fred B. Kniffen Book Award from the International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture (ISLPMC) | <p><strong>Martin Brückner</strong>, professor of English and co-director of the Center
for Material Culture Studies, has received the 2018 Fred B. Kniffen Book Award
from the International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture
(ISLPMC) for his new book <a href="https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2018/april/social-life-of-maps-book/"><em>The
Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 </em></a>(UNCP, 2017).</p> | Brückner, Martin | mcb | | |
| the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award | <p><strong>McKay Jenkins</strong>, Cornelius A. Tilghman Professor of English; was awarded the University of Delaware'e Excellence in Teaching Award. Awardees receive $5,000, have their portraits hung in Morris Library for five years and have bricks inscribed with their names installed in Mentors’ Circle between Hullihen Hall and the Morris Library. </p> | Jenkins, McKay | mckay | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Scholarship Award | <p><strong></strong><strong>Martin Brueckner, </strong>professor, was awarded the 2018 College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Scholarship<br></p> | Brückner, Martin | mcb | | |
| Kendrick Book Prize | <p><strong>Julian Yates</strong>, professor of English was awarded the 2017 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize by The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) for <em>Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression</em>. </p> | Yates, Julian | jyates | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Excellence in Advisement Award | <p><strong>Jill Flynn,</strong> associate professor, was awarded the College Faculty Award for Excellence in Advisement.<br></p> | Flynn, Jill | jeflynn | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Teaching Award | <p><strong>Gabrielle Foreman</strong>, professor, was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching.<br></p> | Foreman, Gabrielle | gforeman | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Service Award | <p><strong>Joseph Harri</strong><strong>s</strong>, professor, was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Service. <br></p> | Harris, Joseph | joeharris | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Service Award | <p><strong>Stephen Bernhardt</strong>, professor was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Service.<br></p> | Bernhardt, Stephen A. | sab | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Scholorship Award | <p><strong>Thomas Leitch</strong>, professor, was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Scholorship.<br></p> | Leitch, Thomas | tleitch | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Teaching Award | <p><strong>Christopher Penna, </strong>associate professor<strong>, </strong>was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching.<br></p> | Penna, Christopher | penna | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Service Award | <p><strong>Melissa Ianetta</strong>, associate <strong></strong>professor, was awarded the College Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Service.</p> | | | | |
| College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Teaching Award | <p><strong>Christine Cucciarre</strong>, assistant professor, <strong></strong>was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching.</p> | Cucciarre, Christine | ccucc | | |