LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 22, 2022) — Eleven university faculty and teaching assistants were recognized by the University of Kentucky with the 2022 Outstanding Teaching Awards on Thursday, April 21, in the J. David Rosenberg College of Law Grand Courtroom.
As part of the National Endowment for the Humanities A More Perfect Union initiative and to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Kentucky Humanities, in partnership with Northern Kentucky University, will host U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo and Kentucky Poet Laureate, Crystal Wilkinson who will discuss social justice, inclusion, and storytelling through poetry.
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is the author of nine books including her most recent Poet Warrior: A Memoir and the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, and has received numerous awards and accolades for poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, has produced seven award-winning musical albums and her poetry will be included on a plaque on LUCY, a NASA spacecraft on reconnaissance of the Jupiter Trojans.
Crystal Wilkinson, an African American feminist writer, is the Poet Laureate of Kentucky and proponent of the Affrilachian Poet movement. She is a 2020 USA Fellow of Creative Writing and a 2021 O. Henry Prize winner. She teaches at the University of Kentucky and is the acclaimed author of Perfect Black, The Birds of Opulence, Blackberries Blackberries, and Water Street.
Eric H. Kearney is the President/CEO of the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce and President of the Northern Kentucky University Foundation. He has had a distinguished career in law, business, and politics. As a state senator, Eric served as Ohio Senate Minority Leader and championed a number of causes including creating Ohio’s Poet Laureate. He founded and built one of the largest African American owned publishing companies, Sesh Communications, which publishes The Cincinnati Herald, The Northern Kentucky Herald, The Dayton Defender, and other publications. Eric serves on many prestigious civic and community boards and has been recognized by the United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s Joseph A. Hall Award for Promoting Diversity, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati, College of Law. Eric earned a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati, College of Law.
|
|
||||||||||
By Ryan Girves
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 13, 2022) — The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has selected undergraduate students as new scholars for the Gaines Fellowship Program.
By Kate Maddox
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 6, 2022) — The University of Kentucky is celebrating two book winners of the Weatherford Awards, which were announced at the 45th annual Appalachian Studies Association conference March 17-20 at West Virginia University.
MFA alum Bernard Clay will be with us Wednesday evening at 7 pm in the Gatton Student Center Room 330AB. Please pass the word. He will be reading from his new collection of poems ENGLISH LIT.
Bernard Clay is a Louisville, Kentucky, native who received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky and is a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective. His work has been published in various journals and anthologies. He currently resides on a farm in eastern Kentucky. English Lit is his first book.
You are invited to attend the 41st English Department Awards Day Ceremony on Friday April 29, 2022, at 2.00-3.00
This year’s awards day event will take place in the Esports Theatre Gallery, UKFCU Esports Lounge, 401 S. Limestone, Lexington, KY 40506
Keynote Address
Professor DaMaris Hill
Download the electronic program here: https://english.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/2022%20Awards%20Day%20Pr…
Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), reveals how eighteenth-century race science contributed to emerging sciences of sex in the colonial Atlantic world. Other publications include Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell UP, 2021) and an award-winning special issue of American Quarterly, “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas.” Dr. LaFleur is currently at work on a new project, tentatively titled A Queer History of Sexual Violence (under contract with The University of Chicago Press), which examines the role of cultural and legal responses to sexual violence in the development of modern understandings of sexuality. Her works-in-progress discussion will be drawn from this project.
The Cottrill-Rolfes Endowment in Catholic Studies will be hosting Dr. Quentin Wodon, Lead Economist In Education Global Practice for the World Bank, for a lecture next week on Tuesday, March 8, at 4:00 pm.: "The Global Role of the Catholic Church in Education, Healthcare, and Social Protection: Challenges and Opportunities"
Dr. Quentin Wodon is a Lead Economist in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank. A lifelong learner, he holds four PhDs. As part of his volunteer work for the Global Catholic Education project, he conducts research on Catholic and faith-based engagement around the world in education, health, and social protection, with two main aims: making the work of the Catholic Church better known in the international community, and bringing to the Catholic Church the expertise emerging from international experience. In this lecture, he will share an assessment of the role of Catholic and other faith-based organizations in the social sectors, including whether they succeed in serving the poor and providing quality services, particularly in Africa.
