Rich Lyons reading his poetry	Rich Lyons's audience

Faculty Awards and Achievements

We’re delighted to boast shamelessly about our colleagues and these notable awards and achievements:

Dr. Nancy Hargrove has spent this fall ’05 semester at the University of Vienna, where she serves as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Cultural Studies. This prestigious award will allow Dr. Hargrove to teach American literature to Austrian students and to share her scholarship on T. S. Eliot with a distinguished international audience.

Dr. Noel Polk served this last summer as Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Lodz in Poland, where he taught American fiction and lectured on William Faulkner and Eudora Welty before audiences of international scholars.

Dr. Kelly Marsh received a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for summer 2005. This much-sought-after award took Dr. Marsh to Ohio State University, where she studied “Narrative Theory: Rhetoric and Ethics in Fiction and Nonfiction” with other notable scholars.

Late last spring, Dr. Marsh was also named the Outstanding MSU Honors Program Faculty Member. Additionally, her “Jane Eyre and the Pursuit of the Mother’s Pleasure” won the “Best Essay for 2005” award from South Atlantic Review.

Dr. Lara Dodds also received an NEH Scholarship for summer 2005. Dr. Dodd’s work focused on “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England,” offered by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Brad Vice received a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2005.

Louisiana State University Press published Dr. Farrell O’Gorman’s book Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction.

Dr. Richard Lyons received the top “World Works” award for his book of poetry, Fleur Carnivore. Based in Washington, D.C., the World Works competition honors the best American poets every year.

Dr. Richard Lyons and Dr. Gary Myers read their poetry at the University of Houston, where they were both honored as distinguished graduates of the creative writing program.

Dr. Sefi Ransome-Kuti, who teaches creative writing and the African novel on the Meridian campus, won the David T. K. Wong Prize for short stories.