Anne Duggan receives Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award

Associate Professor Anne Duggan has received a 2014 Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award. In 1974, the Board of Governors, in conjunction with the president, established an annual Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award to be given each year to members of the regular full-time faculty in recognition of a particular work of merit brought to fruition in the 12-month period immediately preceding the year of the award.

Awards made in 2014 are based on accomplishments in 2012-13. The work of merit is a single act or event that constitutes an outstanding contribution to scholarship and learning. Since 1975, 201 faculty members have received this award.

Dr. Duggan received her award at the WSU Academic Recognition Ceremony on April 24, 2014.

The Board of Governors recognizes Anne Duggan for the publication of Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013). Queer Enchantments is a tour de force that combines the latest theories in gender studies, cinema, biography and critical theory to produce the first exhaustive analysis of Jacques Demy's films. Duggan has made a major contribution to understanding one of France's most misunderstood filmmakers. Her book engages a much broader set of theoretical and cultural questions, including how a queer sensibility, as opposed to a queer sexual identity, emerges in and through an aesthetic engagement with the fairy tale as a genre. Queer Enchantments is a groundbreaking work that will have a lasting impact on several fields, including fairy tale studies, film studies and gender studies. Throughout, Duggan causes us to think again about what constitutes a fairy tale. She has received the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award and has held a Career Development Chair. She has contributed significantly to the field of fairy tale studies and is the co-editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.