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Milton M. Reigelman has filled many different roles at Centre, including serving as Acting President (1997-98), but for thirty-five years has primarily been known as a professor of American literature and humanities. He has held the J. Rice Cowan Professorship of English since 1989. In 1988, the Louisville Courier-Journal named him as one of the three “toughest professors” in Kentucky. At Centre he has won the Rookie of the Year award, is one of two professors to twice win the David Hughes Outstanding Professor Award, has been the N.E.H. Distinguished Professor of Humanities, has chaired many faculty committees and twice chaired the humanities division, and has been president of Phi Beta Kappa. Twice selected as a Senior Fulbright Professor, he lectured for one year at the University of Warsaw in Poland and for a semester at Kiev University in the Ukraine. He currently oversees Centre’s Norton Center for the Arts and the College’s extensive international programs, after himself directing Centre programs in France and England. In this country he has been a Captain in Army Intelligence, worked for The Washington Post, studied at Yale and U.N.C. in N.E.H. seminars, and been Dean of the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program for fourteen years. In 2005 he was named the American Co-Chair of the 2007 international Melville/Conrad Conference in Poland, which will feature the 100 leading Melville and Conrad scholars from around the world. The subjects of his publications include Melville, Henry James, Faulkner, Emerson, George Eliot, John LeCarre, and Ed McClanahan. He co-edited The Danville Quarterly and is the author of The Midland: A Venture in Literary Regionalism. He serves on the editorial board of the Kentucky Philological Review and has been president of many local organizations, including the Danville-Boyle County Library, the Rotary club, and Anaconda: The Danville Literary and Social Club, founded in 1839. Dr. Reigelman has a B.A. in philosophy from William and Mary, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa.College news contact: Communications Office File last updated: |