Lecturer gets access to Guthrie files
Published Date:
22 April 2008
A University of Central Lancashire lecturer has become the first UK scholar to receive a highly prestigious research award.
Dr Will Kaufman, reader in English and American Studies, has been awarded the BMI-Woody Guthrie Research Fellowship. Awarded jointly by the Broadcast Music Industry (BMI) Foundation and the Woody Guthrie Foundation in New York, the $2,500 grant will allow Dr Kaufman to do research at the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York.
Dr Kaufman, 50, who has been teaching at UCLan for 17 years, said: "It's such an honour to receive this award and it's fantastic to have been given the trust to go into the archives and look at the 1,000 and more of Guthrie's documents that have never been published.
"In spite of the fact that Guthrie was writing songs back in the 1930s and 40s, I really think he's an important American voice for today – a counterweight to the more ugly and belligerent voices that have claimed to speak for America for so long."
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22 April 2008 7:12 AM
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