Dr. Gary Harrington Recipient of Fulbright Distinguished Chair

SALISBURY, MD --  Dr. Gary Harrington of the Salisbury University English Department is the recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American literature award. According to the Center for the International Exchange of Scholars notes, an appointment as Distinguished Chair is "one of the most prestigious" awards which the Fulbright grants.

In accordance with the award, Harrington will be teaching from September through late January at the Maria-Curie Slodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He has published substantially in the field of American literature, including a book, Faulkner's Fables of Creativity, and essays on Faulkner, Hemingway and Nathanael West.

Most recently, The Hemingway Review, the major journal for Hemingway studies, has published Harrington's "'Partial Articulation': Wordplay in A Farewell to Arms," which examines heretofore undetected puns in Hemingway's second novel as a means of gauging the reader's response to

Frederic Henry, the novel's central character and narrator. Forthcoming in a volume entitled The Political and the Personal in American Drama is Harrington's essay "The Shattered Mirror: Blanche in Streetcar" which provides, among other observations, a comparison between Tennessee Williams's Blanche Dubois and Shakespeare's Ophelia.

Harrington also writes on Shakespeare and has two essays which will appear in the upcoming year. "'When the Battle's Lost and Won': The Opening of 1 Henry IV," deriving from a paper Harrington presented at the XII International Conference of the Spanish Association for English Renaissance Studies, held in Valladolid, Spain, explores ways in which the first scene of 1 Henry IV establishes a motif pervasive throughout Shakespeare's Henriad wherein every apparent victory for the Lancastrian kings in some sense constitutes a defeat and every defeat a victory. "The New World Order in 4.3 of Macbeth" offers a radically different reading of the behaviors of Malcolm and Macduff in this enigmatic scene.

Harrington is the fourth member of Salisbury University's English Department to receive a Fulbright award.