Recent Faculty Recognition

The English Department would like to congratulate three members of its faculty for accomplishments that have recently garnered professional recognition.

Judith Ruderman (English) has won the 2017 Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in D.H. Lawrence Studies, given by the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America. The award recognizes her important contributions to Lawrence studies, especially books on Lawrence’s works on race and identity. 

Toril Moi is one of 66 scholars elected to the British Academy. The academy is the United Kingdom’s national body for the humanities and social sciences, dedicated to the study of people, culture and societies. Only 20 international scholars were elected as Corresponding Fellows in 2016. Moi’s research encompasses feminist theory and women’s writing, and the intersection of literature, philosophy and aesthetics.

Tsitsi Jaji has won the African Literature Association’s First Book Award for her work “Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.” Africa in Stereo analyzes how Africans have engaged with African American music as cultural prestige, for pleasure and for its creative resistance to racial hegemony.