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Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards, 2011 Record-Breaking Number of Regents' Awards go to English Department Faculty Members
“Offered annually in recognition of faculty members at the nine
University of Texas System academic institutions who have demonstrated
extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate
instruction, the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards are the Board of
Regents' highest honor. With monetary awards that range from $15,000 for
contingent faculty (including adjunct faculty, lecturers and
instructional assistants) to $30,000 for tenured faculty members, the
Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards are among the largest in the nation
for rewarding outstanding faculty performance. Given the depth and
breadth of talent across the UT System, the awards program is likewise
one of the nation's most competitive.
Faculty members undergo a series of rigorous evaluations by students,
peer faculty and external reviewers. The review panels consider a range
of activities and criteria in their evaluations of a candidate's
teaching performance, including classroom expertise, curricula quality,
innovative course development and student learning outcomes.
Established by the Board of Regents in 2008, the Regents'
Outstanding Teaching Awards complement a wide range of Systemwide
efforts that underscore the Board of Regents' commitment to ensuring the
UT System is a place of intellectual exploration and discovery,
educational excellence and unparalleled opportunity.”
From Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards Homepage.
English Department Award Recipients
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Stacy Alaimo, Ph.D.
Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor
My foremost pedagogical
intention is to seriously engage students with some of the most
significant problems of our time. I think it is crucial for students to
work through conceptual, philosophical, ethical, and interpretive
questions in a rigorous, scholarly manner, but at the same time, for
them to see how these seemingly "academic" issues actually have
real-world consequences. I hope that my students will continue to find
that the content of my classes not only prepares them for their
professions but also helps them develop their own frameworks for making
sense of their work, their lives, and their world.
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Laura Kopchick, M.F.A.
Senior Lecturer
In each of my creative writing
classes my goal is always to provide opportunities for each student to
stretch her or his critical faculties, discover her or his own
strengths, and craft her or his writing toward a unique product that is
recognizably the single student's work. My belief is that good writers
must be good readers and that the best way to discover one's own way is
to understand how others have made a similar journey.
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Peggy Pritchard Kulesz, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Successful teaching requires
continual assessment of my teaching effectiveness and reflection on
student success. Perhaps one of the most exciting aspects of teaching is
that no semester is ever the same. As an educator, I never want to be
satisfied with the status quo. Every day of class, every syllabus, every
assessment, every interaction with a student becomes a possibility for
my own revision, invention and improvement.
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Kenneth M. Roemer, Ph.D.
Piper Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Distinguished Scholar Professor, Professor of English
"I'm Looking through You". To
that Beatles' title I'd add "at" and "to." I look at my students'
immediate scholarly needs, but I also look through the present to what
might be valuable to them long after we part. And I look to them for
ideas that help me to reinvigorate this whole wonderful process of
looking through, at, and to.
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