SJSU News Archive
Date: 04/13/2009
Paul Douglass, professor of English and comparative literature, has received the 2008-2009 President's Scholar Award. This award recognizes a San José State faculty member who has achieved widespread recognition based on the quality of his or her scholarship, performances or creative activities.
Douglass is a leading scholar in the areas of American modernism, literary theory, music and literature, and philosophy and literature, particularly in British Romantic Literature. In 2007, he received the Elma Dangerfield Award from the International Byron Society for his publication of "new and original work related to the life, works and times of the poet."
In almost two decades of service to SJSU, he has served as chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature; principal investigator for the California Literature Project; and director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.