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Andrew Strombeck
Outstanding Community Engagement Award
Recognition Year:
2016
Andrew Strombeck employs his teaching, scholarship, and service to engage and enlighten the community. His scholarship and teaching examine a wide range of relationships between literature and American culture. He is interested in the way literature reflects, refracts, and transforms urban decay and economic collapse. By giving students the critical vocabularies and frames of reference to analyze texts, he enables them to take their insights back into their communities and formulate change.
Dr. Strombeck’s interest in the transformative powers and public services that can spring from literary texts matches up perfectly with the premise underlying the Dayton Literary Peace Prize: literature has the power to help make positive change. The conference he organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the prize brought this potent message to the university community, the local community, and the scholars participating in the conference. Partnerships were formed, interdisciplinary projects launched, and performances brought the message home. This is a perfect example of how scholars and students can impact their community while remaining deeply embedded in their discipline.
