Fulbright College's Gender Studies Director Wins Fellowship at University of Kansas

University of Arkansas

Lisa M. Corrigan

Award-winning author Lisa M. Corrigan, director of the Gender Studies Program and professor in the Department of Communication in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen as the 2021-22 Visiting Regional Humanities Faculty Fellow in the Hall Center for Humanities at the University of Kansas.

The Visiting Regional Humanities Faculty Fellowship supports innovative, collaborative research in the humanities.

Of the award, Corrigan said, "I'm grateful to the Hall Center for this recognition and support for my work on the rhetorical history of the civil rights/Black Power era. While I am in residency at the Hall Center, I will be finishing a new monograph, tentatively titled Intimacy Regimes, which looks at modes of racial intimacy in the movement years of the 1960s. I'm particularly interested in how desegregation created an intimacy crisis around race relations and how movement activists navigated that crisis to produce durable models for connection and support despite surveillance, disruption, and violence."

Corrigan taught an Honors College Signature Seminar in the fall of 2020 on Intimacies that helped shape some of her ideas in this new book.

In addition to directing the Gender Studies Program, Corrigan is also an affiliate faculty member in the U of A's African and African American Studies Program and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program.

Her first book, Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation received the National Communication Association's 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and 2017 African American Communication and Culture Division's Outstanding Book Award.

Her second book, Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties was just published in 2020.

Corrigan is also an affiliate faculty member in the U of A's African and African American Studies Program and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program.