J. Lee Whittington Named Dean of Gupta College of Business
Professor of Management J. Lee Whittington, Ph.D., has taught at the college since 2000.
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Dr. Raymond DiLorenzo was Professor Emeritus in the English Department at the University
of Dallas. He took his Ph.D. from the Center for Medieval Studies at the University
of Toronto. He was a medievalist interested in the uses and transformations of the
classical rhetorical and poetic traditions in the literature and theology of the Middle
Ages, especially the works of Augustine, Dante, and Chaucer - upon all of whom he
published articles. Late in his career, he studied Hebrew and the poetics of the
Christian Bible. He was a member of the English Department for thirty-three years,
from 1972 to his retirement in 2005, during which time he taught thousands of freshmen
how to design, argue, and write in the genre of the short academic essay. He was
a philologist of the highest order - a lover of words and the Word. Professor DiLorenzo
was married to his wife Nancy for 46 years, and they have three children: Laura,
Raymond, and Maria. He passed away July 16, 2010.
The Dr. Raymond D. DiLorenzo Essay Contest is an annual competition in which professors nominate their best student essays from the Spring Literary Tradition II course. The essay may be on either Dante or Milton, both theological poets trained in the classical rhetorical tradition which was Professor DiLorenzo's abiding interest. Each teacher may nominate only one essay. The standards for the essay contest are three:
The winner be awarded publication in the next year's University Scholar, and a modest monetary prize supported by the Dr. Raymond D. DiLorenzo fund. The winner will be announced in the UD News in the Fall after the semester and summer of the contest.
| 2011 |
Christina Witkoski: "Milton's Satan: Icon or Iconoclast?" |
| 2012 |
Michael Reardon: "The Great Divide: Milton's Ontology and the Implications for Protestant Thought." |
| 2013 |
Ann Kuehl: "On Desire Unfulfilled" |
| 2014 |
Joseph P. White: "Why Saint Bernard?" |
| 2015 |
Brian Hula: Appropriation and Re-creation: Dante's Use of Ovid's Tale of Marsyas in Paradiso 1.19-21 |
| 2016 |
Joe Puchner: La città dolente: Florentine Destruction and Redemption |
| 2017 |
Sarah Ana Henriquez: "The Veil of Verses and the Holy of Holies: Inexpressibility and Silence throughout The Divine Comedy" |
| 2018 |
Jasmine Adams: "Piccarda: Gateway to Paradox in Paradiso |
| 2019 |
Jason Schwatz: "A Joy that is More Ample: Delight and Memory in The Divine Comedy" |
| 2021 |
Ben Sanford: "The Siren and Beatrice: Distinguishing Idol from Ideal" |
| 2022 |
Larisa Tuttle: "From Leopards to Lilies: Dante's Song of Songs" |
Professor of Management J. Lee Whittington, Ph.D., has taught at the college since 2000.
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