UC Professor Named Guggenheim Fellow

UC's Myriam Chancy, a McMicken College of Arts and Sciences professor of English, was recently named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow.

According to the Guggenheim Foundation website, “Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

Chancy was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in Canada. She has been a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature since 2009. Her Guggenheim Fellowship was awarded in the Literary Criticism category.

This year marks the 90th annual competition of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the United States and Canada. Fellowships were awarded to 178 of the 3,000 applicants, one of those being a joint fellowship. 

Fellows this year represent 56 disciplines, 83 different academic institutions, 29 states and two Canadian providences.