![]() She is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing, and lives in Philadelphia with her family. Her first novel, Girl at War,won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Why would you hold back resources from those who would be the future of the department? I didn’t know too much about chairing a department at the time, but I did know that we had a chair who sought to empower us junior people, and that felt good. Sara Noviholds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. Susan set him right in no uncertain terms. ![]() ![]() One of the senior male professors in the department, who happend to sit next to me, spoke up and said the research leave should only be offered as a recruitment tool - there was no need to offer it to those who were already there. I distinctly remember how, when I was an assistant professor, the department voted to use gift funds to pay for a one-semester research leave for junior faculty. As a linguist, I was not in Susan’s inner circle, but I still benefitted from her leadership and commitment to fairness. True Biz feels like the discovery of a new written form, a love letter to language itself.Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River Sara Novic is one of the best writers of my generationnot just the novelist of Deaf culture, but of human nature writ large. The English Department mourns the loss of Susan Stanford Friedman, trailblazing scholar and program builder, former department chair, and generous mentor to many who are now leaders in the global study of literature. ![]()
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