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Jesmyn Ward - Tulane Assoc Professor Profiled in this week's TIME

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:45 pm
by GreenLantern
Jesmyn Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for her Katrina tale, Salvage the Bones. She is an associate professor of English at Tulane and has just released a new novel, Sing Unburied Sing.

This week's edition of Time has a two page profile of Ms. Ward. Quite an honor indeed. This young woman is going places.

Re: Jesmyn Ward - Tulane Assoc Professor Profiled in this week's TIME

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:48 pm
by GreenLantern
And now she's nominated for the prestigious 2017 National Book Award. Faculty like Ms. Ward make Tulane Tulane.
https://twitter.com/likaluca/status/915557727019159552

Re: Jesmyn Ward - Tulane Assoc Professor Profiled in this week's TIME

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:12 pm
by GreenLantern
Now she has been named a McArthur fellow (a genius grant) and received a $625K grant.

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/ ... e-nav-next

Jesmyn Ward - Tulane Assoc Professor Wins Second National Book Award

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 11:24 am
by GreenLantern
Jesmyn claims a second National Book Award, this time for "Sing, Unburied, Sing". First woman ever to do so. She's being compared to Faulkner.

To put things in perspective, long after we forget how many first downs we had against Houston, we'll still be celebrating this Tulanian's work.

https://news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-profe ... ook-awards

Re: Jesmyn Ward - Tulane Assoc Professor Profiled in this week's TIME

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:39 pm
by RobertM320
That's pretty high praise to be compared to Faulker. Congrats to her!

Re: Jesmyn Ward - Tulane Professor Writes in this week's TIME

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:47 pm
by GreenLantern
Jesmyn Ward, the Tulane English professor who delivered the keynote address at this year's commencement, wrote an excellent piece for this week's Time magazine:

My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home

It's easy to understand how the two-time National Book Award winner and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship Genius grant is being hailed as a literary giant.