Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Fredonia Professor of English, has been selected for a prestigious Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The stipend will allow Vanwesenbeeck to devote full time to the completion of his scholarly book on the relationship between loss and language in American literature.
Parts of this research have been presented at the annual convention of the Modernist Studies Association in Amsterdam, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, and at Koç University in Istanbul.
The stipend marks Dr. Vanwesenbeeck’s third national award after he received a Fulbright fellowship last year, and was chosen to participate in the Summer Institute for Literary Studies (SILS) at the National Humanities Center in the summer of 2013.
The NEH summer stipend is a highly competitive award. Each year U.S. colleges and universities can nominate up to two faculty members for it. Dr. Vanwesenbeeck was nominated by Dean Andy Karafa. This year only 11 % of summer stipend applications were funded by the NEH.
More information about the program can be found at https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
