Laura Dassow Walls new White Chair Professor of English
Distinguished scholar of 19th-century American literature and culture Laura Dassow Walls will join the faculty this fall as the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English.
Patrick Mello Announced As Humanities Graduate Research Symposium Award Winner
Notre Dame’s third annual Graduate Research Symposium showcased the accomplishments of Notre Dame graduate students in the Graduate School’s four divisions: humanities, social science, engineering, and science.
Humanities:
First place: Patrick Mello, English
“Sir Charles Grandison and the Post-Jacobite Novel”
Student Spotlight: Ryan Downey and Sami Schalk: MFA in Creative Writing, May 2010
To some observers and critics, there is a stark divide between Notre Dame and the communities in the South Bend area. Two recent graduates of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program worked diligently for their two-year tenure at Notre Dame to bridge those worlds, bringing Notre Dame into South Bend’s underprivileged communities, and poignantly likewise, those communities into Notre Dame.
Stephen Fallon named honored scholar by Milton Society of America
Stephen M. Fallon has been named the 2011 Honored Scholar by the Milton Society of America. The honor is the association’s lifetime achievement award, and past winners include C.S. Lewis, William Empson and Stanley Fish.
“Milton scholarship is an important—and crowded—field in literary scholarship. To be recognized as being at the top of that field is a very high honor,” says Professor John Sitter, chair of the Department of English. “If there were a Nobel Prize for Miltonists, Steve Fallon would be on his way to Stockholm.”
American Academy Appoints Heather Treseler to 2010-2011 Class of Visiting Scholars
Heather Treseler has been named a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and will spend the 2010-2011 academic year working on Lyric Letters: the American Epistolary Poem, 1945-1985.
She is one of seven awarded fellowships this year as part of the Academy’s Visiting Scholars program, which supports scholars and practitioners in the early stages of their careers – both post-doctoral fellows and untenured junior faculty – who show potential of becoming leaders in the humanities, policy studies, and social sciences.
English Alumna Capt. Wendy Sue Kosek, '04, '07 JD received The Rev. William Corby, C.S.C., Award
As the recipient of the 2010 Rev. William Corby, C.S.C., Award, Captain Wendy Sue Kosek '04, '07 J.D., is recognized for her distinguished military service and for her dedication to serving her country.
Established in 1985, this award is conferred on an alumnus/alumna (living or deceased) who has distinguished himself or herself in military service. The award is presented in honor of Notre Dame's third president, who was a celebrated Civil War chaplain of the Union Army's Irish Brigade.
Fencer rejoins team year after transplant
Sometime soon, Ted Hodges may have a difficult letter to write.
A senior English major at Notre Dame with a talent for debate, the 22-year-old fencer from Salina, Kan., isn't used to being at a loss for words.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hodges' heart transplant (Sept. 16, 2010.)
In memoriam: Joseph X. Brennan, professor emeritus of English
Joseph X. Brennan, professor emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame, died at his home in South Bend on Oct. 25. He was 86 years old.
New Faculty, More to Come
In a time of academic contraction, the Notre Dame English Department has this year made four new faculty appointments and could make as many as six more by spring.
Irish Scholar Declan Kiberd Appointed Keough Professor of Irish Studies
Declan Kiberd, one of Ireland’s most prominent intellectuals, has been appointed Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies and professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Teaching awards honor exemplary work with undergraduates
The 20 winners of Joyce teaching excellence awards represent faculty who have had a profound influence on undergraduate students through sustained exemplary teaching. Among them is Professor Romana Huk from the English Department.
Kerby-Fulton Wins 2010 Haskins Gold Medal for "Books Under Suspicion"
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Notre Dame Professor of English, has received the 2010 Haskins Gold Medal from the Medieval Academy of America for her work, Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.