Tag: Courtney Thorsson

Courtney Thorsson receives NEH Public Scholars Award

Pictured is Courtney Thorsson.

August 2018—Courtney Thorsson, associate professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in the amount of $60,000 for her project “The Sisterhood and Black Women’s Literary Organizing.” This award will…

Two long-time CSWS faculty affiliates receive Faculty Excellence Awards 

Pictured is Courtney Thorsson.

June 10, 2016—Long-time CSWS faculty affiliates Lisa Gilman and Courtney Thorsson are among 15 recipients of the 2016-17 Faculty Excellence Award. The Faculty Excellence Award is granted through the UO Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs. The award —“designed…

UO Symposium on African American Literature Featured Outstanding Scholars

March 2, 2012—More than a hundred students, faculty and community members attended the symposium “Place and Displacement in African American Literature,” which took place in the Browsing Room of the UO Knight Library on March 2. Courtney Thorsson, a University…