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          English professor awarded Guggenheim fellowship

          
            
              
                
                Published: April 18, 2007
              

              
                Author: Kyle Chamberlin
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, the Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a 2007-08 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to experienced scholars, scientists and artists on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. Kerby-Fulton, one of 189 fellows selected out of nearly 2,800 applicants, will spend the year working on her current research project, titledMedieval Reading Circles and the Rise of English Literature inEnglandand Anglo-Ireland.

Kerby-Fulton, who earned her doctorate at theUniversityofYorkin theUnited Kingdom, specializes in Middle English literature and related areas of medieval studies. Previously a faculty member at the University of Victoria, she has served as a visiting scholar at Yale University and completed a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

She is the author of two books on medieval literary writers,Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers PlowmanandBooks Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late MedievalEngland.

Since 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted more than $256 million in fellowships to some 16,250 people. Awarded to scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, past fellowship recipients include Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson and Eudora Welty.

_ Contact: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, 574-631-7372, kkerby@nd.edu 

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