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Stott named director of Honors College
Andrew M. Stott, professor of English, has been named director of UB’s Honors College and associate dean of undergraduate education.
Stott’s appointment, effective March 19, was announced by A. Scott Weber, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education.
Stott was selected for the post after a national search. He succeeds Clyde F. “Kipp” Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.
Diane Christian, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English and chair of the search committee, said the committee conducted a four-month national search and found a distinguished pool of candidates, with Stott emerging as “a visionary, collegial and innovative leader who will continue the remarkable history of UB Honors.”
“The new ‘Heart of the Campus’ honors space in Capen, the superb honors staff, the able support of Dean Weber and the upper administration all signal an exciting future for the Honors College and its brilliant new director,” Christian added.
A UB faculty member for the past nine years, Stott is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in teaching, and has served as both director of undergraduate studies and director of the MA program in the Department of English.
In his new role, he will be responsible for directing the academic experiences of one of UB’s most dynamic and academically talented undergraduate populations, while also providing leadership and vision across the university’s undergraduate enterprise.
“Andy Stott has demonstrated a strong commitment to UB and articulated a solid and challenging vision for the future of our Honors College and the entire UB undergraduate experience,” Weber said. “I am very excited to have him join the UB undergraduate leadership team.”
Stott called his new job leading the Honors College “a unique opportunity.”
“I am delighted to be given the chance to work with such a gifted and exciting group of students. Not only will we continue to offer a range of challenging and enriching Honors experiences, but I also look forward to the Honors College becoming an engine for innovation in teaching and learning, working with faculty, staff and students to develop new ideas in the classroom that can benefit students across the UB campuses,” he said.
Born and raised in the UK, Stott received his PhD from the University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1995. A specialist in British literature and popular culture from the 16th to the 19th centuries, he is co-editor of “Ghosts: Deconstruction Psychoanalysis History” (Macmillan, 1999), named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of its “books of the millennium.” He also is the author of “Comedy” (Routledge, 2005) and “The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi” (Canongate, 2009), which won the Royal Society of Literature/Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction, the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography and the George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theater Library Association.
“Grimaldi” was dramatized as a BBC Radio 4 “book of the week” and was named by the Guardian newspaper as one of its “books of the year” for 2010.
A recipient of fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and the Huntington Library in California, Stott most recently was the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library’s prestigious Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
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