Three Brooklyn College English faculty win 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships
Three faculty members in the Brooklyn College Department of English have been selected from nearly 3,000 applicants for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Emeritus Professor Louis S. Asekoff and Associate Professor Ben Lerner received awards in the poetry category, while playwright and Lecturer Erin Courtney ’03 M.F.A. received an award in the drama and performance art category.
“This is a well-deserved honor for our talented faculty and underscores the high level of scholarship and dedication to craft that they bring to this institution,” said Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould.
Lerner and Courtney currently teach in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program, which was ranked fifteenth in the nation by Poets & Writers magazine in 2011 and boasts such award-winning alumni as Young Jean Lee ’06, Sapphire ’97, and Helen Phillips ’07.