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Kemp to be awarded emeritus status
Date published: 5/6/2005
Emeritus | Awards Professor of English William Kemp will be awarded emeritus status at today’s University of Mary Washington commencement ceremony. He will be named professor emeritus of English. Emeritus status is granted by the board of visitors to senior members of the faculty upon their retirement from the university. Dr. Kemp began teaching at Mary Washington in 1970 and throughout his tenure has impacted the university in many ways. A member of several departmental and university-wide committees, Dr. Kemp also served as chair of the Department of English, Linguistics and Speech for two 5-year terms. He brought two major grants to the university. One established a residence-life-based alcohol and drug behavior program in the early 1990s. The other focused on computer literacy in the mid-1980s, when the personal computer was still in its infancy. Dr. Kemp has served as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Assistant Dean for Programs and Projects. The author of numerous scholarly articles, Dr. Kemp is an expert in literary critical theory, animal communications, computer applications in the humanities and British literature—especially Shakespeare and Jane Austen. He has written a book titled “John Marston’s ‘The Wonder of Women, or the Tragedie of Sophonisba’: A Critical Edition.” He served as co-author of a chapter on animal communications in “Language: Introductory Readings and A Family Performance of Jane Austen’s Play [Sir Charles Grandison of the Happy Man].” In 2000 he won the Grellet Simpson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, the university’s most prestigious faculty award. Dr. Kemp earned his doctorate from the University of South Carolina after receiving his master’s degree from Mississippi State University and a bachelor’s degree from Millsaps College.
Date published: 5/6/2005
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