Doctoral accomplishments
Three English graduate students earn national recognition
9:44 a.m., May 10, 2013--Three doctoral students in the University of Delaware Department of English have won national awards in recognition of their work.
Clayton Zuba was awarded a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, Christopher LaCasse received the Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship, and Kyle Meikle won the Thomas Erskine Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Adaptation Studies.
Honors Stories
National Medal of Science
Warren Award
Zuba's 12-month fellowship will support his research and dissertation writing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where his principal adviser will be William Truettner, the senior painting curator. Zuba is a third-year doctoral student working at UD with Edward Larkin and Martin Brückner, both associate professors of English and material culture studies.
The Platzman Fellowship will enable LaCasse to spend a week visiting the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections, where he will conduct archival research for a dissertation chapter on the literary magazine Poetry. He is a fourth-year doctoral student working with Ann Ardis, professor of English and interim deputy provost at UD.
Meikle's award is from Literature/Film Quarterly, which will publish his essay "Rematerializing Adaptation Theory" in an upcoming issue of the journal. Meikle is a second-year doctoral student working in the early stages of a dissertation project under the direction of Thomas Leitch, professor of English.