Seven Professors Collect GRB Awards

The University of Maryland's General Research Board will be supporting two faculty projects this summer and five during the 2009-2010 academic year.

The General Research Board has been supporting faculty research since 1957. George Callcott's A History of the University of Maryland notes that the board has historically "sought to encourage promising young faculty members as well as established scholars." Faculty members from the English Department have won thirty-four GRB awards in the past five years.

Semester GRB Award winners:

John Auchard, Professor of English:
"The 'Late' Graham Greene."

Tita Chico, Associate Professor of English, Associate Director of Graduate Studies:
"Minute Particulars: Experimental Philosophy and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century"

Marshall Grossman, Professor of English:
"Reason's Martyrs: Poetry and Belief in Paradise Regained, to which is added, Samson Agonistes"

Sheila Jelen, Associate Professor of English:
"Ethnographic Narratives: Fiction and Photography as Artifacts of Eastern European Jewry"

Brian Richardson, Professor of English:
"Postmodern/Nonmimetic Narrative Theory"

Summer GRB Award winners:

Jason Rudy, Assistant Professor of English:
"National Identity and British Poetry en route, 1824-1868"

Vessela Valiavitcharska, Assistant Professor of English:
"Rhetoric and Poetics in Byzantine and Old Slavonic Homilies"