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Steve Harris, a faculty member in English, has been named as the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Arts & Social Sciences in Canada and North America for 2018-19. This award includes a one-year appointment at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Fulbright Distinguished Chair Awards are among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Harris's research project is entitled, "Semantic Field Parsing in Literature." He will be programming a computer to identify and categorize noun phrases in Old English literature. This work is part of a larger project briefly described here.