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The
Distinguished Colleague Award is given for "significant and sustained
contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service."
All active FCEA
members are eligible for this award.
Candidates need not demonstrate equivalent
contributions in all three areas;
selection is based on overall accomplishments.
Submission
requirements include a letter of nomination, a list of three references, and a
curriculum vitae.
Contact Socky O'Sullivan at mosullivan@rollins.edu
for more information and nominations.
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The
eighth annual Distinguished Colleague Award was given at the FCEA
Conference in Steve Brahlek
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An Associate Professor at Palm Beach Community College, Steve has organized its annual Writers' Symposium bringing in composition specialists from across the country. He is actively involved in student activities ranging from eco-service learning to creative writing to coaching the soccer team at PBCC. As a multi-year FCEA Board member Steve has served as Program Chair, Vice President and President. He is currently the FCEA liaison to the College English Association.
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The
seventh annual Distinguished Colleague Award was given at the FCEA
Conference in Anna Lillios
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Currently the Executive Director of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society and on
the Executive Board of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, Anna
served as Vice President and President of FCEA. 1997-99. She is the author
of the forthcoming Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora
Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, numerous scholarly articles and papers, and the
editor of Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World. An Associate
Professor at the University of Central Florida, Anna received her Ph.D. from the
University of Iowa.
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The
sixth annual Distinguished Colleague Award Kevin McCarthy
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With a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of North Carolina:Chapel Hill, Kevin McCarthy taught in the Peace Corps in Turkey, in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia as a Fulbright Professor, and as a professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Florida for 33 years. He has had 37 books published plus articles in scholarly and popular journals. He served for 18 years as the Executive Director of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society. He has also served as president of the FCEA and as the Distinguished Alumni Professor of the University of Florida. He continues to research and write nonfiction books about Florida.
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The
fifth annual Distinguished Colleague Award Richard Adicks
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After receiving his Ph.D. from Tulane, Richard Adicks had a distinguished career as Professor of Literature at the University of Central Florida. He has received the College of Arts and Science award for excellence in teaching, served as president of FCEA, and been active in historical organizations. In addition to teaching courses ranging from 19th century British and modern American to ancient Greek and Biblical literature, he has published a novel, A Court for Owls [1989], books on Florida history, Le Conte's Report of East Florida [1978] and Oviedo, Biography of a Town [1979]), and articles on literature.
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The
fourth annual Distinguished Colleague Award Susan Monroe Nugent
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Susan served on the Executive Board of FCEA from 1995-98 and as Vice President, 2001-02, and President, 2002-03. Currently a faculty member at Santa Fe Community College, Susan has also taught at Florida Keys Community College, where she was named Teacher of the Year for 1996-97, and at Keene State College in New Hampshire. Avid conservationists, Susan and her husband Harold, were named National Volunteers of the Year by the National Fish and Wildlife Association in 1999. She is currently working on two books: one about The Nature Conservancy and one focusing on the women behind the environmental movement in the Florida Keys.
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The
third annual Distinguished Colleague Award Jane Anderson Jones
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President
of FCEA, 2001-2002, Jane has been on the Board since 1999. She
currently serves as the FCEA's Webweaver. She was given the
second annual Academic Excellence Award at Manatee Community College
where she has taught since 1982.
At MCC she has served as President and Vice President of the Faculty
Council, and Distance Learning mentor.
Her books include Florida in
Poetry and Frida Kahlo.
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The second annual Distinguished Colleague Award was given at the FCEA Conference in Indian Rocks Beach on October 16, 2003, to: Maurice
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A
member of FCEA's Executive Board from 1995-2002, Socky served as FCEA
President and Vice President from 2001-2002. FCEA Colleagues
recognize him as mentor, enthusiastic collaborator and premiere scholar of
Florida literature. He holds the Kenneth Curry Chair in English at
Rollins College where he has served as Chair of the English Department,
Humanities Division Chair and President of the Faculty. His books
include: The Florida Reader, Florida in Poetry, Florida Noir and
Shakespeare's
Other Lives.
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Distinguished Colleague Award
was given at the FCEA Conference in Gainesville on October 18, 2002, to: Fred Standley
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Fred has been a long-time
member of FCEA serving as Vice President, 1991-92; as President, 1992-93
and as CEA Liaison from 1993 to 2003.
He holds the Daisy Parker Flory Chair at FSU, where he directed
Graduate Studies 1970-73 and chaired the English Department 1973-82 and
1997-99. His work on James
Baldwin is nationally known, and he recently edited
The Diaries of
Claude Denson Pepper.
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