ECU English Chair Awarded $270,000 NEH Grant

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East Carolina University English Department Chair Dr. Jeffery Johnson has received a $270,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The three-year grant supports “The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne,” housed at ECU. On Sept. 1, Johnson will become the general editor for the Donne Variorum, a collaborative research project involving more than 40 international scholars.

The project has been funded by the NEH since 1986, with a total of more than $1.8 million.

The Donne Variorum, including its online component DigitalDonne (http://donnevariorum.tamu.edu) has been described by other scholars as “one of the most important scholarly ventures in English literature,” (Brian Vickers, Times Literary Supplement, 25 Jan. 2008) and “one of the most successful collaborative ventures in Renaissance studies of our time” (Stanley Stewart, Renaissance Talk, p. 159).

For additional information, contact Johnson at 252-328-6378 or johnsonj@ecu.edu.