Anatoly Liberman awarded MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography

Congratulations to Anatoly Liberman, whose book, A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List, has been designated winner of the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography.

Faculty Receive Imagine Fund Grants

We are proud to announce the five of our faculty members have received Imagine Funds Awards for 2011-12:
Ruth-Ellen Joeres
Anatoly Liberman
Rick McCormick
Charlotte Melin
Monika Zagar
The competitive, University-wide Imagine Fund Annual Faculty Awards support innovative research in the arts, design, and humanities.

Evelyn Firchow awarded Humboldt grant

Evelyn Firchow has been awarded a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to continue work on a research project in the English Philology Institute at the University of Munich this spring. The grant will enable her to work toward completion of an edition devoted to her English translation of Gottfried von Strassburg's Middle High German epic "Tristan und Isolde."