Central Faculty Receives Recognition
Five Central College faculty members received awards this spring for their outstanding leadership in teaching, service and scholarship.

Five Central College faculty members received awards this spring for their outstanding leadership in teaching, service and scholarship.

Central College’s annual Writing Anthology, a collection of exceptional student work from across the liberal arts curriculum, has been released for the 2020-21 academic year.

Walter Cannon, professor emeritus of English at Central College, has co-edited a new book titled “Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds: Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now.”

“Mid-Americana: Stories from a Changing Midwest” launched its second season Oct. 7.

Katherine Nesbit, assistant professor of English at Central College, has been awarded a Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship to help fund a one-month research trip to archives in England containing early talking books.

Central College is showcasing the photographs of Molly Wood in an exhibit titled “The Poison Garden” through Sept. 23 in the Mills Gallery in the Lubbers Center for the Visual Arts.

Central College’s annual Writing Anthology has been released for the 2019-20 academic year.

Joshua Dolezal, Central College professor of English, recently published his essay “Syruping” in Fourth Genre, a literary journal devoted to notable, innovative work in creative nonfiction.

Central College will offer two special remote courses in the summer of 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic — one for incoming first-year students and another for current students.

Central College received a gift of $200,000 from the estate of Mary Du Bois Wright, a 1941 graduate of the college.