UTPB English Chair Named 2008 Piper ProfessorUniversity of Texas of the Permian Basin Professor Sophia Andres has been selected as a 2008 Piper Professor. This prestigious award is given to just 15 professors statewide each year by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Competition for the award is tough. Nominations for the award come from every institution of higher education, including two and four-year colleges and universities, both public and private. 
Andres is chair of literature and languages, a professor of English and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in Humanities, and the English Graduate Program Head. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from San Jose State University and her doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her areas of research include Victorian fiction and poetry, the pre-Raphaelites, and modern and postmodern British fiction. Her work has been published in ELH, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Victorian Newsletter, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, George Eliot – George Henry Lewes Studies, and Victorians Institute Journal. Andres is the third UTPB professor to earn this award – Pam Price and Doug Hale are previous recipients. |
