Congratulations!

Rutgers English Awards, Fellowships, and Distinctions

Warmest congratulations to the following members of the Rutgers English Department for their well-deserved achievements!

Faculty

Kate Flint has been named a Fellow of the National Humanities Center for the academic year 2007-08. She has also been awarded the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research for 2006-07. This is now the fourth year in a row that a Rutgers English faculty has received this distinction. For the moment, we now have nine recipients of this award in our department: Cheryl A. Wall (2005-06); Marianne DeKoven (2004-05); William H. Galperin (2003-04); Michael Warner (2002-03); John Belton (1997-98); Myra Jehlen (1995-96); Michael McKeon (1992-93); and George Levine (1990-91).

Evie Shockley has been awarded a Fellowship by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the academic year 2007-08, and another Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), to pursue a project entitled “Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry.” This book-length project contextualized and historicizes the relationship of race to poetic innovation in African American poets’ work by addressing problems raised by the close association of “black aesthetics” to Black Arts Movement ideology.

 

Cheryl A. Wall, Board of Governors Professor of English, has been awarded a Rutgers University Human Dignity Award for 2007. Funded by the Office of the President through the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, the Rutgers University Human Dignity Awards annually honors up to five individuals or groups who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and commitment in promoting the value and importance of diversity at Rutgers and in society.

 

Support Staff

Eileen Faherty and Cheryl Robinson have won the Graduate School-New Brunswick Staff Excellence Award for 2006-07 for the consistent and extraordinary service they provide to both faculty and students in the Graduate Program of Literatures in English.