Faculty Stories
Highlights from our humanities colleagues.
Soyica Colbert Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Soyica Colbert, former interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in theatre arts and performance studies, which will support the development of her forthcoming book At Freedom’s Gate.
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Nicoletta Pireddu Wins Comparative Literature’s Most Prestigious Award
Nicoletta Pireddu’s book Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism has been awarded comparative literature’s most prestigious award: the René Wellek Prize. Conferred by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the prize recognizes outstanding books that “cross national, linguistic, geographic or disciplinary borders.”
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Joel Michael Reynolds Recognized by The Hastings Center for Groundbreaking Work in Disability Studies
The Hastings Center has named Joel Michael Reynolds one of their newest fellows for his work expanding the fields of philosophy of disability and disability bioethics. The group includes more than 200 of the world’s preeminent bioethicists, public health experts and health humanities scholars.
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A Home for the Humanities on Campus
Professors Nicoletta Pireddu (Inaugural Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative), and Derek Goldman and Anthony R DelDonna (Department of Performing Arts) have been awarded a $750,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a humanities hub on campus. The funding will help expand humanities research, pedagogy, and public programming through renovations to the McNeir Auditorium and the lobby of the Davis Performing Arts Center.
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