English Department Awards & Announcements
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student NewsAcademy of American Poets Prize
Stephanie Elliott is the winner of the 2008 Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem, "What the Tattoo Artist Said." Corey Van Landigham received honorable mention for her poem, "Sturgeon."
The Academy of American Poets is a national non-profit organization devoted to stimulating interest in American Poetry through fellowships and public programs. The Poetry Prize Contest is held at 177 undergraduate institutions annually. The results are also reported to the Academy and all the winners will be listed in the summer issue of the Academy's journal, American Poet. Dixon Award Winner- Jessica Cartwright
Junior English Major Jessica Cartwright received the 2008 Hillary and Adam Dixon Award. The $2500 Award is granted annually to a junior English major wishing to conduct research associated with their English studies. Cartwright will use the funds to travel to the Alex Turnbull Library in New Zealand to study Katherine Mansfield. Applications for the 2009 award will be available in November. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faculty NewsProfessor Gross Wins Graves Award
Assistant Professor Karen Gross has won an Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award for 2007-08. The award is given in alternate years to a young professor teaching at a liberal arts college in the West. While it recognizes excellence in teaching the humanities, the money accompanying the Award is intended to assist with research. Professor Gross' current scholarly project is a study on Chaucer and his Italian sources (Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch), and the intellectual exchanges between England and Italy during the later Middle Ages. She will use the money to attend a conference in Swansea, UK to present part of this study. Professor Pritchard's Book Published
Will Pritchard's book Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London was published in December 2007 by Bucknell University Press. The Associated University Presses said, "Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London elucidates early modern attitudes towards women's public display. Will Pritchard presents a cultural study that draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from the years 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade in the Strand). He offers a fresh context for the study of Restoration literature and a provocative argument about women and public space. An engaging academic study, Outward Appearances enhances and historicizes our understanding of the dynamics of gender and looking in the Restoration and will be appreciated by literary scholars, historians, and cultural theorists alike." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alumni News
Elizabeth Miller '05 has had one of her short stories, "The Saltwater Girl," accepted for publication in the national literary magazine, Pleiades. Are you an alum with news you would like to share? Please email english@lclark.edu with details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives2006-07 Awards & Announcements 2005-06 Awards & Announcements 2004-05 Awards & Announcements 2000-01 Awards & Announcements
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