Birger Vanwesenbeeck (English) has been awarded a Summer Research Fellowship from the Northeast Modern Language Association. He will receive the award during a formal ceremony at the NeMLA conference in Boston at the end of February. The monetary award of $1,000 will allow him to do research at the Paul de Man Archives at the University of California at Irvine for an article-in-progress (tentatively) entitled "Faust in the Fifties: Gaddis, de Man, and Fielder."