Two Professors Receive ACLS Fellowships

NEW YORK — Two members of Fordham University’s English department have received one-year postdoctoral fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to conduct humanities-based research on 17th- and 18th-century England.
Kim F. Hall, Ph.D., associate professor of English and Thomas F.X. Mullarkey Chair in Literature, will conduct research on gender and material culture in 17th-century England. Hall’s research will delve into a period when ideas of domesticity, labor and land were reshaped by the proliferation of sugar from the Atlantic world. Michael F. Suarez, S.J., associate professor of English, will use the fellowship to build upon his 1999 doctoral thesis by examining the mock biblical, a mode of verbal and visual satire used as a political weapon during the Restoration and the 18th century in England.
Hall and Father Suarez are two of 72 awardees selected from a pool of 1,018 applicants. Fordham’s English department was the only department to have multiple fellowship recipients.
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