Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for his project "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Poetry and the Language of Ethnicity." The abstract explains: "To address the current limitations of Asian American literary criticism, this study discusses works by an exemplary group of poets in and from the U.S. (mostly of specifically Chinese descent), each of whom bears a distinctive relationship to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to represent."
In the most recent fellowship competition, ACLS made awards totaling over $2.3 million to 60 scholars for postdoctoral research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences.
According to its Web site: The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in
its constitution, is to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of
learning in the humanities and the social sciences and to maintain and
strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such
studies."
