Estimados colegas,

Ayer mandé un mensaje donde hice mención de nuestra amable colega Hilaire 
Kallendorf <<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> y hoy, 
voilà, aparecen las siguientes noticias.  Espero que todos la felicitemos 
efusivamente, como merece.

¡FELICIDADES, HILAIRE!

Un abrazo,

ARL


>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:04:35 -0600
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>We are pleased to announce the $50,000 Hiett Prize in Humanities awarded 
>to Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf, assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at 
>Texas A&M University. Please include this press release in your 
>organization s newsletter or announcements to honor Dr. Kallendorf for her 
>achievement.
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>Blair Williamson
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>College Relations Intern
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>Dean s Office, College of Liberal Arts
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>Texas A&M University
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>$50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities Awarded to
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>Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf of Texas A&M University
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>For Immediate Release
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>March 16, 2006
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>DALLAS The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture is pleased to 
>announce its second annual Hiett Prize in the Humanities winner: Dr. 
>Hilaire Kallendorf of Texas A&M University.
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>Dr. Kallendorf competed nationally for the Hiett Prize in the Humanities 
>and will be awarded the $50,000 Hiett Prize in Dallas on April 25th 
>at  Celebrating America s Future,  a gala sponsored by the Dallas 
>Institute. Renowned broadcast journalist and Dallas Institute Fellow Jim 
>Lehrer will be the keynote guest, interviewed by fellow journalist and 
>Institute Fellow Lee Cullum.  0
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>The proceeds from the Hiett award gala benefit the Summer Teachers 
>Institute, a program designed to support and rejuvenate teachers in Dallas 
>through the humanities.
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>Dr. Kallendorf is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M 
>University.  She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton 
>University.  Her work deals with many aspects of religious experience, 
>especially as belief relates to literature and culture.  She is the author 
>of two books, Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern 
>Literature of England and Spain and Conscience on Stage: The Comedia as 
>Casuistry in Early Modern Spain (in press at University of Toronto).  She 
>has published scholarly articles on such topics as self-exorcism, piety 
>and pornography, ghosts, Taíno religious ceremonies, and Christian 
>humanism in the Renaissance.  Currently she is working on her third book 
>and gathering material for a fourth, which will foreground a spiritual 
>critique of postmodernism.  She is also working jointly with others at 
>Texas A&M and in Mexico on a digitalization project to rescue the 
>bibliographical patrimony of Mexico.
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>image0021.jpgDr. Kallendorf stands about 5' 3" in black pumps, and wearing 
>her black double breasted coat dress and her black hair pulled straight 
>back she looked quite serious - like the classical ballerina she was for 
>15 years, but when her red lipsticked smile opened up with "Howdy," the 
>official Texas A&M greeting, she had the Dallas Institute board members 
>and guests in the palm of her hand.
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>Dr. Kallendorf went on to say that she loves to answer the question, "What 
>do you do?" which she interprets as, "Who are you?," with the statement, 
>"I am an exorcist." That can be a conversation starter or stopper 
>depending on the courage of the inquirer.
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>She views her role in the humanities as logical - she can't do math or 
>science - but also as a higher calling to be a beacon in the midst of 
>post-modernism, which she views as a disease that is infecting our 
>culture. Through her work as teacher, mother, friend, and researcher, she 
>exorcises demons like "new historicism", those rewriting history with a 
>secular atheistic bias, and the demon of "lack of moral agency" that 
>creates confusion and fragmentation of the true Self within us all. She 
>sees a current society that is desperate to go to confession - looking at 
>the talk shows and blogs which mirror an emerging confessional culture.
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>The Hiett Prize is intended to encourage promising individuals whose work 
>in the humanities has extraordinary promise and also significant public 
>application.  In 2004, Kim Hiett Jordan donated $1 million for the 
>endowment. She is a board member of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and 
>Culture, which is a nonprofit educational organization that since 1980 has 
>enriched and deepened the practical life of the city with the wisdom and 
>imagination of the humanities.
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>The Hiett Prize is neither a lifetime achievement award nor a purely 
>academic prize.  Instead it will encourage future leaders in the 
>humanities by assisting them early in their careers.  The question, What 
>are the humanities and how do they shape our lives, our cities, our 
>future? is explored at the Dallas Institute, which seeks to act as a 
>bridge between the study of the humanities and the life of the city in a 
>meaningful way.
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>The finalist judges for the 2006 Hiett Prize were three nationally 
>acclaimed figures in the humanities: Prof. Michael Hoeflich, University of 
>Kansas, Prof. Seth Lerer, Stanford University and Prof. Frederick Turner, 
>University of Texas at Dallas.
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>Call for nominations for the 2007 Hiett Prize is now open and the deadline 
>for applications is September 15, 2006. Visit 
><http://www.dallasinstitute.org/>www.dallasinstitute.org for more information.
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>Please contact Carpenters & Associates for interview arrangements.
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>College of Liberal Arts
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