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 >From: "Williamson, Blair" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: award announcement for release >To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >Thread-topic: award announcement for release >Thread-index: AcZUNSqV2EQ4wOv0Qy295RPGcFQ3+w== >X-BrightmailFiltered: true >X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== >X-MS-Has-Attach: yes >X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > >To Whom It May Concern: > >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. > >Thank you, > >Blair Williamson > >College Relations Intern > >Dean s Office, College of Liberal Arts > >Texas A&M University > > > > > > > >image00110.gif > > > >The Dallas Institute > >of Humanities and Culture > >www.dallasinstitute.org > > > >Media Contact: > >Carpenters & Associates > >Jean Carpenter or Christine Volkmer > >Office: 214-520-3666 > >[log in to unmask] > > > > >$50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities Awarded to > > > > > > >Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf of Texas A&M University > > > > > > > > >For Immediate Release > >March 16, 2006 > >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. > >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 > > > > > >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. > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >Please contact Carpenters & Associates for interview arrangements. > > > >### > > > > > >Blair Williamson > >Student Intern I, College Relations > >College of Liberal Arts > >Texas A&M University > >4223 TAMU > >College Station, TX 77845-4223 > > > >301 Coke, #16 > >Office: (979) 458-1347 > >[log in to unmask] > >