Arts fellowship

A fellowship with the Royal Society of Arts has been awarded to Professor Geoff Ward, an expert in American literature at the University of Dundee.

Geoff Ward: "I am very pleased and honoured to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. It is particularly good for a scholar of American literature based in Britain to receive this recognition because we have to work at a considerable distance from our field of interest. It was sometimes hard in my early career to convince Americans that their poets were as important as I thought they were! Poets such as O'Hara and Ashbery were little known outside New York at that point and now are considered major literary figures of the twentieth century. As a critic and literary historian, I'm pleased to have had a part to play in that."

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