Birger Vanwesenbeeck (English) has been awarded a聽Summer Research Fellowship from the Northeast Modern Language Association.聽聽He聽will receive the award during a formal ceremony at the NeMLA conference in Boston at the end of February. The monetary award of $1,000 will allow him to do research at the for an article-in-progress (tentatively) entitled "Faust in the Fifties: Gaddis, de Man, and Fielder."