Visiting Assistant Professor Anthony Healy and Rosemary Magee, retired Rose Library director, show off their volumes — the former on school choice, the latter a short-story collection. | https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/12/er_feast_of_words_15-12-2022/thumbs/0120601-22KH-F251.jpg
Visiting Assistant Professor Anthony Healy and Rosemary Magee, retired Rose Library director, show off their volumes — the former on school choice, the latter a short-story collection. | https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/12/er_feast_of_words_15-12-2022/thumbs/0120601-22KH-F251.jpg
Though writers can be notoriously solitary, where new books are on display that they and their colleagues have written, swing the doors wide: they will come.
And so they did on Dec. 6, when the annual Feast of Words, which honors faculty book production in the past year, took place in the Jones Room of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Though food and drink were plentiful, the real feast — as the event’s name implies — consisted of the published research that Emory’s faculty made possible last year as either writers or editors.
Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE), Emory Libraries and the Emory Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Feast of Words also marked being back in-person since the pandemic began. Normally headlining the event but unable to do so because of travel for Emory in India, Ravi V. Bellamkonda, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, sent along a video conveying his appreciation for what the faculty accomplished.
Calling the event “an amazingly joyous occasion,” Bellamkonda characterized the lead-up to any finished academic work, saying: “For some of our faculty, it reflects several dedicated years of hard work, of trying to find time in between the many other things our wonderful scholars do. In some cases, it is a labor of love. In other cases, it is a triumph of perseverance and grit. In some instances, it is an intellectual feat.”
This year’s list — reflecting works published between Sept. 1, 2021 and Aug. 31, 2022 — consists of 89 titles and 65 faculty authors representing all the schools and colleges, including emeriti faculty. In the 19 years since the event began, Emory faculty have produced nearly 2,000 titles.
The CFDE manages two funds that have contributed to success for faculty authors. Ten of the 89 titles were helped toward publication by the Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund, which provides small grants to faculty to hire an editor to take a manuscript from one stage to the next. Five of the projects were supported by the Public Scholarship Advancement Fund, which provides small grants to faculty interested in moving their research and writing into the realm of public influence.
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