Storrs Native Receives Prestigious Faculty Award at St. Mary's College of Maryland

ST. MARY'S CITY, MD (06/18/2013)(readMedia)-- St. Mary's College of Maryland announces that Karen L. Anderson, native of Storrs, CT, was awarded the Norton T. Dodge Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement by a Junior Faculty Member. This award recognizes outstanding professional activity by the faculty.

Anderson joined the St. Mary's College faculty in 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Cornell University and teaches courses having to do with literature and science, literature and economics, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. poetry, contemporary poetry, ecopoetics, and environmental writing. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Verse, Indiana Review, The New Republic, Fence, Pleiades, Volt, Colorado Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her book, Punish honey, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2009.

St. Mary's College of Maryland, designated the Maryland state honors college in 1992, is ranked one of the best public liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. More than 2,000 students attend the college, nestled on the St. Mary's River in Southern Maryland.