{"id":12161,"date":"2014-09-19T17:35:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:42:18","slug":"utc-alumnus-named-macarthur-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/utc-alumnus-named-macarthur-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC alumnus, Dr. Khaled Mattawa, named MacArthur Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fifteen year old, Khaled Mattawa left Libya and came to the United States barely able to speak English. Just a few years later, he became a political science major at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and today he is a renowned translator, poet, and cultural ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mattawa \u201989, Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been honored by The Academy of American Poets and has just been named by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to its 2014 class of MacArthur Fellows.\u00a0 He is recognized as \u201cone of 21 exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of achievement and the potential for significant contributions in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-attachment-id=\"12994\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/utc-alumnus-named-macarthur-fellow\/khaled-mattawa-translatorpoet-university-of-michigan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;John D. and Catherine T. MacArth&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410307200&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2014\\r(c)John F Martin Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Khaled Mattawa, Translator\/Poet, University of Michigan&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Khaled Mattawa, Translator\/Poet, University of Michigan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Khaled Mattawa won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his work translating Arabic poetry to English. He also writes English poetry of his own. (John D. &amp;#038; Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12994\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Khaled Mattawa won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his work translating Arabic poetry to English. He also writes English poetry of his own. (John D. &amp; Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-580x387.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/khaled-mattawa.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khaled Mattawa won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his work translating Arabic poetry to English. He also writes English poetry of his own. (John D. &amp; Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fellows will each receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years. The Fellowship comes with no stipulations or reporting requirements, and allows recipients maximum freedom to follow their own creative visions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who think creativity is dying should examine the life\u2019s work of these extraordinary innovators who work in diverse fields and in different ways to improve our lives and better our world,\u201d said Cecilia Conrad, Vice President, MacArthur Fellows Program. \u201cTogether, they expand our view of what is possible, and they inspire us to apply our own talents and imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video produced by the MacArthur Foundation, Mattawa explains that he writes his own poems and translates mostly contemporary Arabic poetry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were many great Arabic poets who were not available in English, so it seemed important for me to bring them to the American reader,\u201d he said in the video.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/922\/\">Watch the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mattawa has translated numerous volumes of Arab poetry, he is author of <em>Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet\u2019s Art and His Nation<\/em> (2014); co-editor of <em>Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing<\/em> (1999) and <em>Dinarzad\u2019s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction<\/em> (2004, 2009); and is the author of four collections of poetry, including <em>Tocqueville<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n<p>He has also co-founded the Arete Foundation of Arts and Culture to support and promote the creative arts in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>During his undergraduate days at UTC, Mattawa made an impression on his professors, including Dr. David Carrithers, who teaches in the Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Nonprofit Management.\u00a0 Carrithers recalls:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Khaled Mattawa was one of the most dedicated students I have had the privilege to teach at UTC. \u00a0Although it was hardly his area of special interest, Khaled enrolled in a senior-level seminar I was then teaching on American death penalty jurisprudence, and I vividly recall the skill and attentiveness that he brought to the nuances and details of complex Supreme Court decisions regarding capital punishment. Quite an achievement for a student drawn more to poetry than to prose! \u00a0It was very\u00a0apparent that Khaled had set very high goals for himself and was already embarked on a path that would lead to superior accomplishments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Khaled was the sort of student who sought out his professors for conversation on a wide variety of subjects, and I learned a good deal about his life in Libya prior to his coming to the United States. \u00a0Conversations with him were always very interesting and enlightening. \u00a0His clear focus and his sense of his identity and goals were impressive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, The Academy of American Poets announced that Mattawa had been elected as one of two Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.\u00a0 This honorary position has been held by some of the most distinguished poets in the United States, including Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komunyakaa, and John Ashbery.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Board of Chancellors, Mattawa consults with the organization on matters of artistic programming, serves as judge for the organization\u2019s largest prizes for poets, and acts as ambassador of poetry in the world at large. Mattawa was selected by the 15 members of the Academy\u2019s current Board of Chancellors, and will serve for a period of six years.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Jackson, UTNAA Professor of English at UTC, has kept in touch with Mattawa, who has returned to be on the staff of the Meacham Writers&#8217; Workshop, held every semester at UTC.\u00a0 Jackson remembers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Khaled was a student in the Poetry Workshop and is a natural writer: in fact some of the poems he wrote while an undergrad at UTC appeared in his first book. He has gone on to be an incredible poet, THE translator of Arabic poetry, and a superb teacher\u2026Being a chancellor is a great honor: the academy feels it is important to represent the diverse spectrum that American poetry is.\u200e The academy promotes literature and has many programs for schools and libraries: it is the major organization in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mattawa is the recipient of the 2010 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the PEN American Center Poetry Translation Prize, among others.<\/p>\n<p>After he earned a B.A. at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Mattawa went on to earn an M.A. and M.F.A. (1994) from Indiana University at Bloomington, and a Ph.D. (2009) from Duke University.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of this year\u2019s class of MacArthur Fellows, Mattawa joins 897 others whom the Program has recognized since it began in 1981. Fellows are selected through a rigorous process that has involved thousands of expert and anonymous nominators, evaluators, and selectors over the years. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited or outside nominations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. More information is at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\"><em>www.macfound.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fifteen year old, Khaled Mattawa left Libya and came to the United States barely able to speak English. Just a few years later, he became a political science major at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and today he is a renowned translator, poet, and cultural ambassador. 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