RON SCHUCHARD
DOROTHY ALLISON
MICHAEL ELLIOTT
NATASHA
TRETHEWEY
RON SCHUCHARD, Goodrich C. White Professor of English, has won, along with co-editor John Kelly of Oxford University, the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. The award, which is presented in odd-numbered years by the Modern Language Association, honored The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats.
DOROTHY
ALLISON, the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic
Inquiry Distinguished
Visiting Professor,
will teach Intermediate
Fiction for the Creative
Writing Program, Spring
2008. In addition to
this course, Allison
will be participating
in a number of public
events including a
Creative Writing Reading
Series.
MICHAEL ELLIOTT, Director of Graduate Studies and associate professor of English, has published Custerology: the Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. The volume examines the persistence of Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in American culture and looks at the ways in which we perceive and are influenced by history in the early 21st Century. It has already entered its second printing.
NATASHA TRETHEWEY, Renowned poet and
Emory University
associate professor
of English. Natasha
Trethewey has been
awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
She received the
Pulitzer for "Native
Guard" (2006, Houghton Mifflin).
