English's Malcolm Sen Receives 2023-24 Distinguished Teaching Award
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Associate Professor in the Department of English Malcolm Sen has been named a recipient of the 2023-24 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Since 1961, the University of Massachusetts has presented the Distinguished Teaching Award to instructors who demonstrate exemplary teaching at the highest institutional level. This highly competitive and prestigious campus-wide honor is the only student-initiated award on campus.
Sen is also Director of the Environmental Humanities Specialization. His research interests focus on questions of justice, statecraft, and postcolonial politics as they emerge in this contemporary moment of climate crisis.
At UMass Amherst, he teaches courses on environmental humanities and postcolonial studies at the graduate level, and Irish literature, global Anglophone literature, and climate fiction at the undergraduate level. Before joining UMass, Malcolm was an “Irish Research Council Elevate Fellow” at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment. He was also awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Notre Dame.