Professor of English Tony Barnstone has been awarded a 2015 Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for his study The Religion of Science and the Religion of Art: William Carlos Williams and the Machine Age Modernists. This stipend will provide financial support for two continuous months of research and writing.
The NEH endeavors to make the products of these type of awards available to the broadest possible audience. The goal is for scholars, educators, students, and the American public to have ready and easy access to a wide range of NEH grant products.
Barnstone is the Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College. He is a prolific poet, author, essayist, literary translator, and author of 16 books.
Barnstone has won fellowships and poetry awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Competition (Chester H. Jones Foundation), the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award, and the Poetry Society of America, among others.
