Four Wayne State University professors who have distinguished themselves with significant scholarly achievements were recently honored with the 2015 WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Awards. The awards are offered annually to full-time faculty members who make outstanding contributions to scholarship and learning. Each recipient receives a citation from the board, an engraved wall plaque and a monetary award.
This year's recipients are:
• Jorgelina Corbatta, professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Corbatta, of Ann Arbor, is honored for the publication of Borges y yo / Borges y los otros (Borges and I / Borges and the Others). In this, her sixth book, Corbatta culminates her career-long interest in the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and his literacy legacy.
• Jaime Goodrich, associate professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Goodrich, of Ypsilanti, is recognized for the publication of Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England. This is the first book to examine translations of religious works in general and women's devotional translations in depth during sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
• renée hoogland, professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. hoogland, of Detroit, is honored for the publication of A Violent Embrace: Art and Aesthetics after Representation. In A Violent Embrace, hoogland makes a compelling argument for a critical engagement with how art objects produce an aesthetic encounter.
• Chris Tysh, senior lecturer in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Tysh, of Ferndale, is recognized for the publication of Our Lady of Flowers, Echoic. This work is the second volume of her three-part project, Hotel des Archives. Tysh transforms Jean Genet's 1943 novel Notre Dame des Fleurs from its original form in French prose to an epic-length poem written in English.
(Left to Right) Jaime Goodrich, Chris Tysh, renée hoogland, Wayne Raskind, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, accepting for Jorgelina Corbatta.
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