Michael Hancher Wins Service Award

Professor Michael Hancher is a winner of the 2014 President's Award for Outstanding Service, becoming "a member of an elite group of faculty and staff of the University community" who have provided exceptional service to the University well beyond the regular duties of a faculty or staff member. Since joining the Department of English in 1972, he has served as Director of English Graduate Studies, CLA Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Chair of English, and most recently Vice Chair of the Faculty Consultative Committee of the Faculty Senate, which serves as the consulting body to President Eric Kaler and as the executive committee of the Faculty Senate. The award will be conferred at a Board of Regents meeting on Thursday, May 8, 3:30 pm, at 600 McNamara Center. Congratulations!

Faculty in the Media

The scholarship of Professor Michael Hancher is referenced in The Times Literary Supplement review of the new edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. . . . Responding in part to the discovery of certain bones found buried under a British parking lot, Professor John Watkins looks at current U.S. foreign policy through the lens of Shakespeare & Richard III in Foreign Policy. He was subsequently interviewed on NPR about the story.

Hancher Co-Chairs Digital Humanities Collaborative

Professor Michael Hancher is the co-chair with Laura Gurak (Writing Studies) of the 2011-12 Institute for Advanced Study collaborative, "Digital Humanities 2.0." The collaborative seeks to advance artistic creation and scholarly research in the humanities by exploring digitization and Web 2.0 technologies. IAS provides workspace in Nolte Hall and financial support each year to groups of colleagues engaging in interdisciplinary projects.