![]() To classes, coursework, academic calendar, student organizations, faculty/studentĪdvise the Program Director and Dean on WCU faculty and student priorities and how Work with the Program Director to integrate the activities of the Poet-in-ResidenceĪnd other visiting poets by helping to design the events and facilitate connections Specifically, the committee’s charge is to: In which humanities and arts are integrated, and focused on the broader implications The Faculty Advisory Committee’s purpose is to support the mission of the WCU PoetryĬenter, as articulated in its founding NEH endowment grant: "to create an environment She also taught at MIT and served as Chair Professor She retired in 2012 after almost two decades Lim was a professor of English and chair of the Women’s Studies department at the ![]() Literature of the United States Lifetime Achievement Award. Lecturer Awards, two American Book Awards, and the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Lecturer Award (the highest honor UCSB offers its faculty), Fulbright Distinguished Her many awards include the UCSB Faculty Research Her ten poetry collections include three published in 2015, Ars Poetica for the Day, The Irreversible Sun, and Do You Live In? Embracing the Angel focused on the Democracy Movement that she observed first hand while a Visiting Distinguished Her debut collection,Ĭrossing the Peninsula and Other Poems (Heinemann, 1980) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first for a woman and anĪsian. Of short stories, numerous critical texts, three novels, and a memoir. Lim considers herself primarily a poet, although she has also written three books Of Malaya and her Ph.D, from Brandeis University. Her first poem was published in The Malacca Times by age 11, she knew she wanted to be a poet. Although her first languages were Malay and the Hokkienĭialect of Chinese, she was reading English poetry by the time she was six. Please submit all documents to with a subject line of “Shirley Lim Award.”īorn in Malacca, Malaysia, Shirley Geok-lin Lim was raised by her Chinese father andĪttended missionary schools. To the Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities for review in coordination with In form and a copy of a lesson plan for teaching poetry. They teach writing and poetry in the classroom. Applicants must submit a letter from their principal verifying The recipient must be a K-12 teacher from the United States who actively teaches the May be used for economy travel and accommodations. Recipient to attend the WCU Poetry Conference or WCU Poetry Workshop. The Shirley Geok-lin Lim Award is an annual distribution of up to $1,000 for the chosen
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