Over this last year, our faculty members have continued to bring credit to our department with their special achievements and awards:
| Dr. Thomas Anderson received a $1,000 grant from the MSU Graduate Office to support his research at the Folger Library in Washington DC, where he pursued his book project on John Foxe. | |
| Dr. Scott Crossley received a $4,500 grant to serve as a linguistics consultant at the Institute for Intelligent Systems in Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Dr. Lara Dodds received a $9,310 award from the MSU Office of Research to support her work on “Margaret Cavendish and the making of English Literature.” She also lectured on Cavendish’s work at our October 2006 Symposium. | |
| Already a Giles Distinguished Professor and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Cultural Studies, Dr. Nancy Hargrove has received the Dynamic Women of Mississippi Award from the Madison County Chamber of Commerce. She was also selected by President Foglesong to carry the mace at his inauguration ceremony. | |
| Becky Hagenson received a grant from MSU’s Humanities and Arts Research Program to support her work at the Summer 2006 Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. | |
| Dr. Holly Johnson received a $4,000 grant from the Criss Fund to support her research on medieval sermon literature. | |
| Dr. Rich Lyons received the top “World Works” award for his book of poetry, Fleur Carnivore. Based in Washington DC, the World Works competition honors the best American poets every year. | |
| Dr. Kelly Marsh received the 2006 Humanities Teacher of the Year Award. As recipient of this prestigious award, Dr. Marsh also delivered a public lecture titled “In Search of the Mother’s Pleasure: The Motherless Daughter in Literature.” | |
| Dr. Farrell O’Gorman has been chosen along with five other distinguished scholars in Southern literature to direct a Summer Institute for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Hosted by Georgia College and State University, the NEH Institute will focus on the works of Flannery O’Connor. | |
| Dr. Noel Polk won the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence at the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration. Dr. Polk also taught last summer as visiting professor of American literature at Chuo University in Tokyo and Kansei Gakuin University in Sappo, Japan. | |
| The Shackhouls Honors College inducted the following English professors as Honors Faculty: Thomas Anderson, Lara Dodds, Becky Hagenston, Nancy Hargrove, Holly Johnson, Kelly Marsh, Meg Murray, Richard Patteson, Rich Raymond, Brad Vice, Robert West. | |