UNE literature scholar Jennifer Tuttle named 2011 Kenneally Cup Recipient
The University of New England College of Arts and Sciences has awarded the 2011 Kenneally Cup, its award for Distinguished Academic Service, to associate professor Jennifer S. Tuttle, Ph.D.
The Kenneally Cup recognizes the accomplishments of a faculty or staff member who has given extraordinary service to undergraduates at UNE. It is named in honor of a long-time member of the university, Dr. Raymond Kenneally, who during a distinguished 26-year career at UNE and St. Francis College, served as a faculty member in the Department of Education, and as assistant dean, associate dean, and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
A mentor and friend to many, Kenneally retired in 1992 and died in 2003. The College of Arts and Sciences honors his legacy of service to others with this annual award.
Jennifer Tuttle
Tuttle began her career at UNE in 2001 as a faculty member in the Department of English and Language Studies. As the Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature & Health, Tuttle is the faculty director of the University of New England's Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC), housed at the Abplanalp Library on the Portland Campus. She also directs UNE's Women's and Gender Studies Program.
Tuttle teaches courses in literature and health, women's studies, U.S. literature, and the American West. Her published work on these and other topics has appeared in numerous journals and edited collections.
Interim dean of the UNE College of Arts and Sciences Stine Brown, Ph.D., states, "Dr. Tuttle is dedicated to her program, students and the college. She has been a mentor to a number of faculty who respect her experience and trust her wise counsel. In all her work - teaching, service and scholarly endeavor - Dr. Tuttle places students first, and she is known for her spirit of collegiality, openness and collaboration."
Due to Tuttle's persistent promotion of the MWWC, the resources of the Collection have found their way into numerous classrooms at UNE, including American studies, environmental studies and biology.
She has also supervised several directed studies and internships of students interested in the Collection; one of these projects resulted in an annotated bibliography of the holdings related to women and the environment.
Tuttle's classes are favorites of both English majors and students beyond the discipline. She finds numerous ways to involve students in research projects both in and out of the classroom. Her students are frequent presenters at the College of Arts and Sciences annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, and two have won the Best Oral Presentation award under her mentorship.
Tuttle is coeditor of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (2011) and The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009) and editor of a scholarly edition of Gilman's novel The Crux (2002).
Her current project, Unsettling California: American Nervousness and Western Women's Writing, is a book about California women writers and medical discourse. She is coeditor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and president of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society. She received her Ph.D., from the University of California, San Diego.