The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded English Prof. Rita Felski and Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways with 2010 Guggenheim Fellowships, which provide research funding for individuals who demonstrate "achievement and exceptional promise," according to a statement from the Guggenheim Foundation.
Felski received her $33,000 award for her work in the field of literary criticism, while Genoways received $35,000 for his contributions to American literature.
Felski's award money will go toward research on a project called "Suspicious interpretation of texts as critical methodology." The project is part of a book that will concentrate on the concept of "suspicious reading," according to a University press release.
"Often known as 'critique' or more grandly as 'the hermeneutics of suspicion,' this technique of reading texts against the grain to expose their unflattering meanings is widespread throughout the humanities," Felski stated in the press release.
Felski - who holds the William R. Kenan Jr. endowed professorship within her department - is also the editor of a collection of essays called "Rethinking Tragedy" and has written several books, such as "Uses of Literature," "Literature After Feminism" and "The Gender of Modernity."
Genoways' money, meanwhile, will go toward several projects, including a critical edition of Walt Whitman's wartime poems and Civil War writings. Genoways is currently working on a two-volume narrative history of Whitman during the period, according to the University press release.
"The grant will give me the time to complete several ambitious projects in time for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War," he stated in the press release.
Genoways has won numerous literary distinctions, including the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award and the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. He is also the editor of several books, including "The Selected Poems of Miguel Hern
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