RJA member Tim Hunt recently received one of three Outstanding College Research Awards from the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University.
“Each recipient of this year’s Outstanding College Research Award has made outstanding contributions to his field,” says Dagmar Budikova, Interim Senior Associate Dean.” The college is proud to have them among its faculty at Illinois State.”
In the announcement, his scholarship on Robinson Jeffers, including editing the five-volume set of The Collected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, was recognized.
“Hunt’s long scholarly relationship with Jeffers’ poetry is beginning to produce what seems to me some of the most original readings of the poet’s work that I have encountered,” said Joan Mullin, chair of the Illinois State Department of English.
Read more on the ISU website.