Barnett teaches in the Paul McGhee Division, NYU’s undergraduate degree program for adult students.
Catherine Barnett, adjunct professor of creative writing at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, is among the 187 winners of the 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships, which are awarded to artists, scholars, and scientists for distinguished past achievements and exceptional promise of future accomplishments.
The fellowship winners are selected from more than 3,000 applicants for awards totaling $7,500,000. Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted almost $240 million in fellowships to more than 15,500 individuals.
Barnett teaches in the Paul McGhee Division, NYU’s undergraduate degree program for adult students.
“I plan to continue to work on my second book of poetry at the New York Public Library in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, “said Barnett. “The collection includes literary archives and manuscriptsrough drafts, letters, revisions, etc.of poets whose work I deeply admire.
“The manuscripts interest me as visual objects, as well. For example, Randall Jarrell’s earliest drafts are practically illegible as text but beautiful as abstract drawing: scrawl, slash, asterisk, and arrow. I’m also moved and guided by the lives, achievements and even by the failures these papers and objects document.”
Barnett won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award for her first collection of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced. Her honors include a 2004 Whiting Writers Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a 2005 Pushcart Prize, and a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, The Literary Review, Lyric, Barrow Street, Shenandoah, Interim, The Hat, and The Washington Post.
Scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize winners appear on the roll of Fellows, which includes Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty. The full list of year 2006 Fellows is on the World Wide Web at http://www.gf.org.
About The NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies
The School of Continuing and Professional Studies (www.scps.nyu.edu) is among the 14 colleges and schools that comprise New York University, one of the largest private universities in the United States. Founded in 1934, NYU SCPS each year educates some 4,200 undergraduate and graduate students and enrolls over 40,000 in its non-credit programs. A national leader in adult and professionally oriented education, NYU SCPS programs include non-credit courses that span more than 125 fields, 14 industry-focused Master’s degree programs, and nine Bachelor’s and six Associate degree programs specially designed for working adults. As well, NYU SCPS is home to NYU Online, the University’s first online undergraduate program.