Topic: English
Poetry professor wins NEA grant for creative writing
Mary Szybist, assistant professor of English, received a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship in creative writing this month. The highly competitive fellowships of $25,000 each are given to published creative writers of exceptional talent, encouraging the production of new work and allowing writers the time and means to write. One of the foremost awards in the literary field, the NEA grant will support Szybist’s work on her second book of poems, tentatively titled Incarnadine.
“A grant like this is a boost of adrenaline to the writing process,” said Szybist. “As I’ve worked on my current manuscript for the last few years, I have cycled through periods of faith and doubt, both about the poems and the project as a whole. To have the NEA select my work for this distinction is a great gift of validation, and I am eager to return to my manuscript with a renewed sense of vigor and excitement.”
Szybist’s poetry has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, and Best American Poetry 2008. Her first book, Granted, was named one of the top ten books of poetry in 2003 by Library Journal. Also that year, Szybist was a finalist for the National Book Circle Critic’s Award in Poetry.
Assistant Professor Pauls Toutonghi reviews novel about a Soviet crime
Pauls Toutonghi, assistant professor of English:
In May, Toutonghi reviewed Tom Rob Smith’s novel “Child 44,” a brutal story about a serial killer preying on children in the former Soviet Union. In the St. Petersburg Times, Toutonghi writes that Smith is “clearly a writer in process; he’s still learning how to tell a story on the printed page.”
Assistant Professor Karen Gross honored for excellence in teaching
Karen Gross, assistant professor of English:
Gross is a winner of the 2008 Graves Award, which is given in alternate years to select young professors teaching in the humanities at liberal arts colleges in Oregon, Washington, and California. Gross will receive a $10,000 grant to support her work on a book examining Geoffrey Chaucer’s Italian influences. Read more here.
Six undergraduates receive Fulbright Awards
A record six seniors received Fulbright Awards this spring.
Recipients include Ian Hooper (teaching award, Germany), Katie Loebner (teaching award, Indonesia), Matthew Nelson (teaching award, Russia), Brandon Nichter (research award, Chile), Kate Phillips (teaching award, Thailand), and Katherine Spingarn (teaching award, Germany).
To learn more, explore this interactive map and read about the Fulbright recipients in the online newsroom.
Visiting Professor of English Jerry Harp discusses possible decline in reading
In an article examining recent reports about the decline in reading, Visiting Professor of English Jerry Harp explains that the perceived movement away from reading “posits a golden age of reading that never existed” and “seems to be related to the mentality that things are not as good as they used to be.”
The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) Book Report
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