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Sklodowska installed as Randolph professor
By Barbara Rea Elzbieta Sklodowska, Ph.D., professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, was installed Dec. 3 as the inaugural Raymond R. Randolph, Lee Schroth Randolph, Paula Schroth Krummenacher, and William R. Randolph Professor. The new chair is a gift of alumnus William Randolph, who died in 2000. The gift, announced by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, was made by Randolph in memory of and in gratitude to his parents and his aunt.
Randolph earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Spanish, in 1953 and 1959, respectively, from the University. He taught Spanish at Morton West High School in Berwyn, Ill., until his retirement in the 1980s. Early in his teaching career, Randolph received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Iran. He cultivated a lifelong interest in music and collected rare instruments, some of which he donated to the University's Department of Music in Arts & Sciences. Sklodowska is an expert on Cuban narrative and culture, the poetics and politics of memory, the Spanish-American narrative from the 19th and 20th centuries, and testimonial literature. She has published six books, including two edited volumes, and more than 60 articles, book chapters and reviews printed in three languages. In addition, she has translated a number of contemporary plays from English into Polish. "Elzbieta Sklodowska is a superb scholar and teacher, and brings to the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences great breadth and depth in undergraduate and graduate programs in Spanish," said Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences. Her teaching ranges from undergraduate survey courses to graduate-level seminars. Currently, she directs the graduate studies program in Spanish. In March, Sklodowska led a group of first-year students as part of a new FOCUS program on Cuba, which she created in partnership with Joseph Schraibman, Ph.D., professor of Spanish. Her contributions to students in Spanish recently were acknowledged with a Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, awarded by the Graduate Student Senate. After earning a master's degree in Spanish from the University of Warsaw in 1979, Sklodowska came to the United States and earned a doctorate from Washington University in 1983. She returned to Poland and taught at the University of Warsaw for several years. Sklodowska returned to the United States as a Mellon Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and followed that with another fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. She joined the Washington University faculty in 1990 and became a full professor seven years later. During her tenure, she also has served as visiting professor at Emory University and the University of Illinois. Most notable among her many accomplishments are being awarded the habilitacja, a degree granted in certain European countries for substantial work done beyond the doctorate; the "Premio Plural," the Mexican literary award for best critical essay; the "Premio Discurso Literario," award for best essay from the University of Oklahoma; and the Northeast Modern Language Association Foreign Language Book Award, for her monograph on Latin American testimonial narrative, considered a seminal study on the subject. Furthermore, she serves on the editorial boards of five scholarly journals and is the general editor for Latin American literature of Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, published by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. William Randolph's gift is one of 115 endowed professorships established during the Campaign for Washington University. |
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