Faculty Awards and Achievements

Over this last year, our faculty members have continued to bring credit to our department with their special achievements and awards:

Dr Greg Bentley was named the 2007 William Winter Scholar in the MSU College of Arts & Sciences.

Dr. Bentley
Dr. Lara Dodds received a summer fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library to support her research on “Margaret Cavendish and Literary History: Reading and Writing in Sociable Letters.” The fellowship included a $6,000 stipend. Dr. Dodds
Dr. Nancy Hargrove won the Best Article of the Year Award from the South Atlantic Language Association. The award recognizes Dr. Hargrove’s article on “T. S. Eliot’s Year Abroad, 1910-1911,” published in the South Atlantic Review. Dr. Hargrove
Dr. Michael Kardos won the Mary Lago Teaching Award at the University of Missouri. Dr. Kardos
Dr. Richard Lyons received the Humanities Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Lyons
Dr. Catherine Pierce won the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize for her forthcoming volume of poetry, Famous Last Words. Dr. Pierce
Dr. Noel Polk won the College of Arts & Sciences Award for Research in recognition of his on-going work on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Southern literature. Dr. Polk