University Of Delaware: For The Record

Press release from the University of Delaware:

Article by UDaily staff

September 24, 2021

University community reports awards, presentations, publications and honors

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent awards, presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Awards

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, in partnership with the John Dickinson Writings Project (JDP), has been awarded a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant of $300,000 with a $149,998 match from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for 2021-24. The project brings to life the writings of John Dickinson, an American founder with strong ties to Delaware who is known today as the “Penman of the Revolution.” Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, and Jane E. Calvert, director/chief editor for the JDP, serve as co-project directors. Learn more about this NEH-funded project.

Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education, has received a new $170,000 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the neurobiology of reading compensation. With the support of this grant, Del Tufo will study the link between single-word reading and reading comprehension through a focus on lexical-semantic knowledge, the knowledge of word meanings. In this longitudinal functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study, Del Tufo will investigate whether reliance on additional, compensatory brain regions to support single-word reading hinders or facilitates the long-term development of reading comprehension.

Presentations

On Sept. 16, 2021,  Earl Smith and Angela Hattery, both professors of women and gender studies, were invited to present research from their forthcoming book, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement at The Race Workshop at Duke University. 

Publications

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of an essay published in a special issue of the journal Études Anglaises:Revue du Monde Anglophone (2021, no. 2) devoted to the work of the British novelist Anita Brookner (1928-2016). Stetz's essay (pp. 155-169), titled “Anita Brookner and the Servants: Power Struggles and British Jewish Domestic Spaces in Her Early Fiction,” analyzes conflicts--some with comic overtones, others with tragic implications—involving gender and class that occur between Brookner's fictional Jewish characters and the non-Jewish domestic workers whom they employ. Stetz is also the author of a poem, "The School Photographer," published this month in West Trestle Review.

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