Caretta Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
June 29, 2010
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has announced its 2009 of fellows, and Maryland's Vincent Carretta is among them.
The Guggenheim Foundation annually selects approximately 220 fellows from 4,000 applicants across the disciplines in Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences, and the Creative Arts. This year, Carretta is one of twelve new Fellows selected for accomplishments in the field of literary studies. Other winners for 2009 include Frances Dolan, Richard Halpern, and David Wallace.
A leading expert on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century anglophone literature by authors of African descent, Carretta will be researching and writing a biography on African-American poet Phillis Wheatley. Already widely acclaimed as a biographer (his 2005 biography of Olaudah Equiano was called "as factually and interpretatively rich as it is enjoyable"), Carretta's portrait of Wheatley proves to be eagerly anticipated.
Read Carretta's Guggenheim biography here.