UT Faculty Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
- Jun 15, 2020
Four UT faculty from the colleges of Fine Arts and Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin were among the 175 artists and scholars awarded Guggenheim fellowships from a pool of nearly 3,000 U.S. and Canadian applicants. Each fellowship grants individuals time and money to explore new ways to enhance their scholarship and “add to the educational, literary, artistic and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding.”
Associate professor of English Oscar Cásares will use the Guggenheim Fellowship to develop a novel that would also function as a lexicon of the U.S.-Mexico border. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, associate professor of practice in playwriting, will leverage the Guggenheim fellowship to write history plays that retell significant moments in the story of the United States. The fellowship will allow Lisa Olstein, professor of English, to create an extensive collection of poetry and prose chronicling life in the American present. Associate professor Yevgeniy Sharlat is writing an opera about the Pygmalion myth set in the modern-day world.
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