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Hi-resolution photo available on www.lsu.edu/pa/photos LSU professor John Lowe will be honored with the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, or MELUS, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of Ethnic-American literature at the 2008 Modern Language Association convention in San Francisco in December. A professor of English and comparative literature and the director of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Lowe has taught African-American, Southern, Asian-American and multi-ethnic literature and theory, and has offered seminars in transnational and diasporan literature and culture for the comparative literature program. As the founding director of LSU’s Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, he has been instrumental in organizing the university’s new multi-disciplinary program in Atlantic Studies. He has authored or edited six books, many articles and has a special interest in ethnic humor. During his term as President of MELUS, he helped found branch chapters in Europe and India, and gave the initial keynote addresses for these organizations in Heidelberg, Germany, and Hyderabad, India. He has also edited a special edition of MELUS, the organization’s journal, on ethnic humor. Lowe is currently on leave as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, writing a book titled “Calypso Magnolia: The Caribbean Side of the South.” Before joining the LSU faculty in 1986, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in African-American Studies at Harvard University. Prior winners of the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award have included Eric Sundquist of UCLA, Werner Sollors of Harvard and Thadious Davis of the University of Pennsylvania. -30- |
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