Michelle Lynn
Lecuyer, M.A. English, Specialization in Literature
Michelle Lynn Lecuyer, recipient for the 2008 Brenda Daly Award for
Outstanding Graduate Scholarship with her paper titled, The Quest for Self
and Spiritual Understanding On the Road.
Brenda Daly, CEAH
Director, 2005-2008
Brenda Daly, former director of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and
Humanities (CEAH) from 2005 to 2008 at Iowa State University, is currently
Emeritus University Professor of English. One of Daly's goals as director
of CEAH was to encourage university scholars in the arts, design and
humanities to engage in dialogue with the sciences and with the public. As
representative of Imagining America at Iowa State, Daly initiated the
"Imagining Iowa" project in which ISU faculty partner with the public to
support scholarly explorations of aesthetic, environmental, ethical, and
historical implications of the emerging bio-economy on Iowa communities and
citizens.
In retirement in the Twin Cities, Daly continues scholarly activities that
include the study of American women's narratives, both fiction and
autobiography. She is currently gathering notes for a memoir tentatively
titled, Rich Soil for Stories: A Geological Memoir of the Midwest, while also
co-editing, with former graduate student Laurel Tweed, an anthology titled
A World of Mothers, which includes twelve essays that examine the
concerns of mothers around the globe at the close of the twentieth century.
Daly's publications include a co-edited collection, Narrating Mothers:
Theorizing maternal Subjectivities (1991) and two single-author books
Authoring a Life: A Woman's Survival in and through Literary
Studies (SUNY 1998), and Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of
Joyce Carol Oates (Mississippi 1996). She has also published numerous
essays combining personal narrative, feminist theory, and pedagogy. Daly
was editor of the NWSA Journal from 2003-2007.
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