the young people's professor

A warm congratulations to Diana Taylor, who has received NYU’s distinguished academic post of “University Professor.” Taylor is currently Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish and founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

The University Professorship is a university-wide award to honor truly outstanding faculty at NYU, whose contributions to the University community might lies outside the system of traditional disciplinary recognition and reward. The handful of faculty at NYU that hold the prestigious “University Professor” title includes Pulitzer Prize winning historian Davis Levering Lewis, sociologist Dalton Conley, Guggenheim winner Deborah Willis, and former Modern Languages Association President Catherine Stimpson.

To my knowledge, NYU’s Department of Performance Studies now holds the distinction of having more “University Professors” than any other department at NYU. The department’s three other faculty holding this title are Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Richard Schechner, and Anna Deveare Smith.

Posted by the young people's professor on 4/28/2008 at 9:17:00 AM | Permalink