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Achsah
Guibbory, Chair of the English Department,
Named Guggenheim Fellow
updated
04.17.08
Achsah
Guibbory, Professor and Chair of the English Department, has
been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship by the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Granted this year to
only 190 artists, scientists, and scholars out of a group
of more than 2,600 applicants from across the globe, the Fellowships
are awarded on the basis of "stellar achievement and
exceptional promise for continued development."
With this
award, Guibbory will spend the next year completing a book
about the uses of Judaism in seventeenth-century England.
An expert in seventeenth-century literature and culture, she
has published numerous articles and several books, including
The Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature
and Ideas of Pattern in History; Ceremony and Community
from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural
Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England; and The Cambridge
Companion to John Donne. She has served as the president
of the Milton Society of America and the John Donne Society,
and is the recipient of many honors and awards, including
a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship
in 2001. At Barnard, Guibbory teaches courses in Milton and
Donne and Renaissance love poetry.
Since
its establishment in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted
more than $265 million in Fellowships to almost 16,500 individuals.
A hallmark of the program is the diversity of its Fellows,
not just in terms of fields of endeavor, but also geographic
location and age. This year alone seventy-five disciplines
and eighty-one different academic institutions are represented.
Past Fellows include scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other
prize winners, including Ansel Adams, Martha Graham, Langston
Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, and Isamu Noguchi.
For more
information on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
visit www.gf.org.
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