Year: 2022

Eight projects receive Library Collections Enhancement Initiative awards

Eight projects receive Library Collections Enhancement Initiative awards! Congratulations to Anne Vila and the team.

Josh Armstrong receives a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship

Josh Armstrong has received a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship (SHRF) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities

Heather Allen receives a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship

Heather Allen has received a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship (SHRF) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities to work on her book project “A Design Orientation to Second Language Writing Instruction.” She is currently writing a monograph to submit to Routledge’s Multiliteracies and Second Language Education series.

A Library Collections Enhancement Award has been granted to the project “Critical Editions/Addition for the French and Italian Collections, 12th to 20th centuries,” July 1 2022-June 30, 2023

This Library Collections Enhancement project will enhance access for UW–Madison researchers in the humanities and social sciences to recent critical reeditions of important primary works by major French and Italian authors from the Early Modern period to the twentieth century, currently not owned by the UW–Madison Libraries. By focusing on multi-volume editions of canonical authors …

Ritt Deitz commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel

Last month, French Teaching Faculty and Kentucky native Ritt Deitz was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Andy Beshear. Founded in 1813, the commission is the highest title of honor bestowed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, recognizing noteworthy accomplishments and outstanding service to community, state, and nation. Other more notable Kentucky Colonels include Muhammad …