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Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award Deadline for Applying for 2002 Award: November 15, 2001What Is the Award?The Robert Hacke Award is available every year on a similar schedule, so pass the information along to your junior colleagues.Robert Hacke served as Executive Secretary of the CEA from 1978 to 1981. The award honors his commitment to the profession and CEA.
CEA is accepting applications for the annual Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award. The award provides $500 to help support a CEA junior teacher who is involved in a scholarly or pedagogical project related to English studies. The recipient of the $500 award will be announced at the annual CEA meeting in April. The grant will begin May 1, 2002.Who Can Apply?
Those persons who are adjuncts or who hold the rank of instructor or assistant professor in a post-secondary institution, including community colleges, and who are members of the CEA at the time of application are eligible to submit project proposals.When Is the Deadline and How Does One Apply?
Applicants must provide to the evaluating committee through the office of the Executive Director the following documentation by November 15, 2001:1. A detailed rationale (maximum of five pages) for the project, including title, purpose and goals, methodology, proposed results, and work schedule.The recipient will be expected to attend the annual spring meeting to receive the award. By March 15, 2003, the recipient will submit a report on the progress of his or her project to the Executive Director, who will present it to the Board of Directors at their spring meeting.
2. A complete vita.
3. Three letters of recommendation, including at least one from a CEA member.Address applications or inquiries to
Robert V. Hoskins, Executive Director
College English Association
Department of English
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
CEA at MLACEA will sponsor two sessions at the MLA Convention in New Orleans in December 2001: "The Edge of the Sea: Science and the Literary Littoral," chaired by Jill Barnum Gidmark; and "Literature for Children and Adolescents," chaired by Ann Hawkins and Jeri Kraver.
CEA 2001 National Award WinnersCongratulations to the following national award winners:
CEA Executive Director Bob Hoskins presents the award for Best Graduate Student Paper to Aaron Urbanczyk. Jill Barnum Gidmark accepts the Joe D. Thomas Award.
- Aaron Urbanczyk, Florida State University, who received the award for Best Graduate Student Paper at the 2001 National CEA Conference. His paper was titled “Mardi as Microcosm: Social Spaces and Society at Sea in Melville's First Romance.”
- Sanford E. Marovitz, professor emeritus, Kent State University, who won the 2001 Robert Miller Prize for his article “Mystical Visions of Mardi and Moby-Dick: The Wondrous New Paintings of A. C. Christodoulou,” which appeared in CEA Critic 63.1 (Fall 2000). The Robert Miller Prize recognizes the best article appearing in the CEA Critic in the previous year.
- Barbara Brothers, Youngstown State University, recipient of CEA's Professional Achievement Award for distinguished career accomplishments.
- Larry Rubin, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Earl Wilcox, Winthrop University, recipients of CEA Life Membership Awards.
- Jill Gidmark, University of Minnesota, General College, recipient of the Joe D. Thomas Distinguished Service Award.
Note of GratitudeMany thanks to all who helped make the thirty-second annual CEA Conference—held in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 2001—a success. Among others, CEA owes a special debt of gratitude to program chair Wendell Aycock of Texas Tech University; to student assistant Will Fastow of James Madison University; and to those who managed local arrangements and registration: Norman Stafford of Arkansas State University, Scott Borders of Anderson University, and Ruth Witherington of Baptist College of Health Sciences in Memphis.
CEA FoundationTrustees of the CEA Foundation are Bonnie Hoover Braendlin, Florida State University (Immediate Past CEA President); Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University (CEA President); Robert Hoskins, James Madison University (CEA Executive Director); Fred Standley, Florida State University (one-year term); Eleanor Green, University of Maine, Presque Isle (two-year term); and Jill Gidmark, University of Minnesota, General College (three-year term).
San Juan Joins Center for the HumanitiesCEA Board member Epifanio (Sonny) San Juan, Jr., was recently appointed Fellow of the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, beginning January 2002. He recently retired from his position as chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University. His book of essays, Racism and Cultural Studies, will be released from Duke University Press in winter 2002.
Other NewsWomen's Connection Officers
CEA Women's Connection officers chosen at the 2001 annual CEA Conference are Ann Hawkins of Austin Peay State University (pictured, left) and Jeraldine (Jeri) Kraver of the University of Texas, San Antonio (pictured, right).CEA Diversity Committee Officers
Christine Cotton, Columbia College, and Richard Pressman, St. Mary's University of Texas, are the chair and vice chair, respectively, of CEA's Diversity Committee. See the Diversity Committee's call for papers for the 2002 CEA Conference.Notice to CEA Affiliates
Affiliate officers, please send the web address for your affiliate, as well as announcements about your upcoming CEA affiliate meetings, to CEA publications editor Bege Bowers, Department of English, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555 or via e-mail at bkbowers@cc.ysu.edu. Please send calls for papers as e-mail attachments.
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