It is my distinct pleasure to announce that the President's Scholar Selection Committee and I have selected Dr. Paul Douglass, Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Humanities and the Arts, as the recipient of the 2008-2009 President's Scholar Award. This award recognizes a faculty member who has achieved widespread recognition based on the quality of scholarship, performances, or creative activities.
Professor Douglass came to San Jose State University in 1990, recognized as a promising young scholar. Throughout his SJSU career, now close to two decades, we have witnessed how this promising young scholar has become, within literary and academic circles, widely recognized as a leading scholar in the areas of American Modernism, Literary Theory, Music and Literature, Philosophy and Literature and particularly in the area of British Romantic Literature.
Professor Douglass' remarkable scholarly achievements include over twenty-five articles and essays in refereed journals and edited volumes, nearly twenty reviews in highly respected venues, and close to 50 presentations and lectures at professional gatherings. He has authored two books on literary modernism and two on Lady Caroline Lamb, both published by Palgrave-Macmillan, which have brought him wide recognition as a leading scholar of the life and work of Lamb, a writer herself and lover of poet Lord Byron. In 2007, Professor Douglass received the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for his publication of "new and original work related to the life, works and times of the poet." He followed that recognition with this year's publication of three volumes: The Collected Works of Lady Caroline Lamb, which he co-edited, published by Pickering and Chatto in London. Professor Douglass has developed three scholarly websites: The Steinbeck Bibliography (www.steinbeckbibliography.org), where he serves as executive editor; the Lady Caroline Website (www.sjsu.edu/faculty/doublass/caro/; and Romantic Era Songs (www.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music/, which features theatre and popular songs, catches, airs, and art songs of the romantic period.
The most remarkable thing about Professor Douglass' scholarly achievements is that he has accomplished them while serving in leadership positions within his department and the University. He has served as Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature; Principal Investigator for the California Literature Project, a four-county teacher professional development program with grants totaling over $2.3 million; and Director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, where he gained praise for editing and combining the journal Steinbeck Studies with the new Steinbeck Review for publication by Blackwell, which enhanced the profile of scholarship produced through the Steinbeck Center. He currently serves as a member of the College of Humanities and the Arts Curriculum Committee and Center for Literary Arts Board; chairs the M.H. Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies Advisory Board; and the Graduate English and Comparative Literature Graduate Committee.
Professor Douglass currently is working on two books and two articles: T.S. Eliot, Dante, and the European Tradition, Ed. Stefano Maria Casella and Paul Douglass, scheduled for release in 2011; The Claremont Graduate School: A History of its Early Development, to be submitted to the Claremont Graduate University in 2010. The latter is a personal undertaking, as Professor Douglass is revising and editing this manuscript left unfinished by his father at his death.
Nothing indicates that Professor Douglass plans to slow down any time soon. We are fortunate that he began his career at San Jose State University as a young promising scholar. Eighteen years later, his remarkable scholarly accomplishments, coupled with his extraordinary service to the University, have earned him the 2008-2009 San Jose State University President's Scholar Award.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Paul Douglass. I look forward to presenting the award to him at the 10th Annual Faculty Service Recognition and Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, April 14, 11:45 a.m., in the Student Union Barrett Ballroom.
This year's award winners listed here as a pdf. For all award winners 2006-present, see below.
2008 Winners: Rachelle Escamilla, Tommy Mouton (Honorable Mention), Susanne Tobin (Honorable Mention)
2007 Winners: Jerry Sexton (1st), Jesse Martin (2nd)
2008 Winner: Casey Fedde
2007 Winner: Lakshmikanthan Anandavalli
2006 Winner: Michelle Perry
2008 Winner: Jessica Guidotti
2007 Winners:
Undergraduate: Elizabeth Joesten(1st), Micaela Youmans (2nd), Cynthia Skinner (Honorable Mention)
Graduate: Tommy Mouton (1st), Nigel Funge(2nd), Candice Wynn (Honorable Mention)
2006 Winners: Erica Goss, Jenny Walicek
2008 Winner: Kelly Ricker
2007 Winner: Sandeep KaurPabla
2006 Winner: Jacquelyn Hendricks
2008 Winners: Christina Wenger, Erin Guldiken
2007 Winners: Eric Cesar Morales, Caroline Carlos, ErinGuldiken
2006 Winners: Mary Williams & Amy Leonard
2007 Winner:Adam Barrett
2006 Winner: Suzanne Kroeze
2007 Winner: Eric Cesar Morales
2006 Winner: Eric Morales
2008 Winners: Brian L. Smith (GR), Rachelle Escamilla (UG)
2007 Winners: Erica Goss (GR), Micaela Youmans (UG)
2006 Winner: Jenny Walicek
2007 Winner: Erica Goss
2008 Winner: Alanna Callaway
2007 Winner: Thomas Hewitt
2006 Winner: Jacquelyn Hendricks
2008 Winners: John MacPherson, Erin Guldiken
2007 Winners: Andrea Lampert
2006 Winners: Mary Williams, Jenny Walicek, JacquelynHendricks
2007 Winner: [None from our Department]
2006 Winner: Jenny Walicek
2008 Winners: Matt McCoy (GR), Casey Fedde (UG)
2007 Winner: ShaquanaMitchell
2006 Winner: Kelly Rice
2008 Winners: Tommy Mouton (GR), Rachelle Escamilla (UG)
2007 Winner: Jennifer De Guzman
2006 Winner: Neli Moody
2008 Winners: Thomas Hewitt (MA) & Dan Arnold (MFA)
2007 Winners: Julie Meloni (MA) & Peter O’Sullivan (MFA)
2006 Winners: Steve Wood (MFA) & Sarah Hardrader (MA)
2008 Winner: Crystle Bruno
2007 Winner: Huma Saleem
2006 Winner: Mary Williams
2007 Winner: [None]
2006 Winner: Dareth Pray
2007 Winner: Monique Camarillo
2006 Winner: [None]
2007 Winners:
1st “Labor Day 2005,” Peter Bosel
Honorable Mention, “Peripheral Vision,” Rachelle Escamilla
2008 Winners:
1st "If your Birthday is August 30th," Angela Grace Mendoza
2nd "Innocence Erased," Michael Schauf
Honorable Mention "Goodbye (We Must Part)," Yasha Bol
Honorable Mention, Evelyn A. So, "On Seekers and Skeptics" (GR)
2007 Winners:
1st, “West Berlin,” Kevin McGee (UG)
2nd “What Keeps Us Up,” Matthew Frise (UG)
3rd “On Sins and Salvation,” Rachelle L. Escamilla (UG)
1st “The Dinner Visages,” Jerry Sexton (GR)
2nd “Sestina in Silicon,” Linda Lappin (GR)
Honorable Mention, “Cracking Coconuts,” Higinofrancisco Penones(GR)
2006 Winners:
1st, "Crosstalk," Jenny Walicek (UG)
2nd, "To Cleopatra," Jacob ContraneBurris (UG)
1st, "The Shield of Mercenary ," Rob Swart (GR)
2nd "Cupertino," Stephanie Chan (GR)
2008 Winners:
1st "Apollo, Apologies," Laura Thomas (UG)
2nd "1916," Katie Luttrell (UG)
"Denmark, On My 40th Birthday," Tanja Nathanael (GR)
2007 Winners:
1st “Wind Warrior,” Kelly Rice (UG)
2nd “The Flight of the Earls, 1607,” Sara Yates (UG)
Honorable Mention “Harvest,” Kevin McGee (UG)
1st “A Physicist’s Love Story,” Peter O’Sullivan (GR)
2nd “Cacoethes,” Linda Lappin (GR)
Honorable Mention “All These Poems,” Janna Layton (GR)
2006 Winners:
1st, "Degeneration," Jenny Walicek(UG)
2nd, "On Watching Francis," Jacob Coltrane Burris (UG)
2008 Winners:
Undergraduate:
1st "Salinas, CA 1967," Rachelle Escamilla
2nd "Cousins, Who Never Visit," Laura Thomas
Honorable Mention "For Ringo," Thomas James Flores
Graduate:
1st "Sax Solo," Evelyn A. So
2nd "Mary," Susanne Tobin
Honorable Mention "Hero," David Kern
2007 Winners:
1st “In Memory,” Cynthia Skinner (UG)
2nd “Living Aches,” Matthew Frise (UG)
1st “Hand: A Landscape,” Erica Goss (GR)
2nd “This Side of Paradise,” Evelyn So (GR)
2006 Winners:
1st, "Interruption," Jenny Walicek(UG)
2nd, "Twenty Two," Elizabeth Joesten(UG)
Honorable Mention, "Thinking," Matt Frise
1st, "Dean Women Pass," Stephanie Chan (GR)
2nd, "The Passing Freeze," Stephanie Chan (GR)
Honorable Mention, "Arcade Rats," Rob Swart (GR)
2008 Winner:
"St. James," Evelyn A. So
2007 Winners:
1st “In the Coat Closet,” Micaela Youmans (UG)
2nd “Sing, Sister Sing,” Sara Yates (UG)
Honorable Mention “Rainy Day Sunday,” Rachelle Escamilla (UG)
1st “Poisons,” Matt Widener (GR)
2nd “Manhattan Stories,” Higinofrancisco Penones(GR)
Honorable Mention “Intervening,” Janna Layton (GR)
2006 Winners:
1st, "Making Yellow Music," Stephanie Chan (G)
2nd, "Fireflies," Rob Swart (G)
1st, "November Under the . . . ," Elizabeth Joesten(UG)
2nd, "My Desk ," Richard Webb (UG)
2008 Winners:
Graduate:
1st "The Kindly Ones," Tanja Nathanael
2nd "Two Little Girls," Sarah Seymour
2007 Winners:
1st “America Sings A Mother,” Sara Yates (UG)
2nd “Faded Pictures,” Eric Morales (UG)
1st “The Ride,” Matthew Widener (GR)
2nd “The Edge of Revelations,” Peter O’Sullivan (GR)
Honorable Mention “Speaking of Joey,” Evelyn So (GR)
2006 Winners:
1st, "The Day Buddy Dog Dies," Jacob Coltrane Burris (UG)
2nd, "Clarity," Jenny Walicek (UG)
1st, "Soups De Mariage," Jerry Sexton (G)
2nd, "The Garden Mall," Stacey Knapp (UG)
2008 Winners:
Undergraduate:
"Rising Over Pain," Angela Grace Mendoza
"The Walkers in Darkness," Kellie Rice
2007 Winners:
“Miyelo,” Kelly Rice (UG)
1st “Lil Cookie Johnson,” Shaquana Mitchell (GR)
2nd “The Rental,” Matthew Widener (GR)
3rd (tie) “The Weight Distributor,” Alan Solis (GR)
3rd (tie) “Shooting Stars,” Sarah Seymour (GR)
Honorable Mention “Interior Scenes: During The Plague,” Jennifer De Guzman (GR)
2006 Winners:
1st, "Fountain," Jacob Coltrane Burris (G)
1st, "Black Gulch," Stacey Knapp (UG)
2008 Winners:
Undergraduate:
1st "Epistemological Concerns and the Two Quartos of Hamlet," Erin Guldiken
2nd "Remedying Benjy's Alienation" Erin Guldiken
Graduate:
1st "Feminism in Mary Shelley's 1818 and 1831 Frankenstein," Sandeep Kaur Pabla
2nd "Up to the Sky," Evelyn A. So
2007 Winners:
1st “Crooked Teeth,” Micaela Youmans(UG)
2nd “Questions of Fulfillment,” Erin Guldiken (UG)
1st “An Empire of Words,” Jennifer De Guzman (GR)
2nd “Between North and South,” Jennifer De Guzman (GR)
2006 Winners Familiar Essay:
1st, "Another Girl Drowning," Jennifer de Guzman (G)
2nd, "Cathedral Peak," Daniel Arnold (G)
1st "Now and Then," Jenny Walicek (UG)
2nd, "Honestly," Micaela Youmans (UG)
2006 Winners Critical Essay
1st, "At the Rims of the . . . ," Stephanie Chan (G)
2nd, "From the Mouths of Kings," Rob Swart (G)
1st, "The Drag Queen in the . . . ," Jenny Walicek(UG)
2nd, "Elegiacal Infusions in . . . ," Ingrid Starink (UG)
2007 Winners:1st “The Playground Act,” Kelly Rice (UG)
2nd “The Tale of How Beowulf Procured Much Mead-stock,” Kelly Rice (UG)
Honorable Mention “How I Spent My Gothic Vacation,” Victoria Machado (UG)
1st “The Redemption of Jose Silverberg,” Peter O’Sullivan (GR)
2nd “Trading Places,” Linda Lappin (GR)
Honorable Mention “The Snakes,” Evelyn So (GR)
2006 Winner
"Am I a Courtly or a Carnal Lover," Richard Webb (UG)
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