{"id":6227,"date":"2024-01-31T20:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=6227"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:43:56","slug":"professor-michael-prior-awarded-tenure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/home-2\/the-words-february-2024\/professor-michael-prior-awarded-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Michael Prior Awarded Tenure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Zo\u00eb Roos Scheuerman &#8217;24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In December, creative writing professor Michael Prior took the elevator up to the Old Main 4 lounge for what he thought was a routine staff meeting, and met bagpipes, grinning colleagues, and a tenure announcement instead! Professor Prior has been in the English department for four years,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and we\u2019re so glad to now have him as a tenured faculty member!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized wp-image-6231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2024\/01\/IMG_8310-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Michael Prior and the rest of the English department faculty at his tenure celebration!\" class=\"wp-image-6231\" style=\"width:322px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2024\/01\/IMG_8310-1024x694.jpg 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2024\/01\/IMG_8310-300x203.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2024\/01\/IMG_8310-768x520.jpg 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2024\/01\/IMG_8310-1536x1041.jpg 1536w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2024\/01\/IMG_8310-2048x1388.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Professor Michael Prior and the rest of the English department faculty at his tenure celebration!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting this summer and going into January 2025, Professor Prior will be away for an Amy Clampitt Residency, living and working in Clampitt\u2019s, an acclaimed poet\u2019s, former house in Western Massachusetts. He plans to use this time to complete his third poetry manuscript as well as an essay collection on generational memory, cultural trauma, and the Japanese Canadian and American experiences during the Second World War. Recently, Professor Prior also became the poetry editor of the award-winning <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">V\u00e9hicule Press<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in addition to his editorship of a forthcoming anthology of Japanese Canadian writing. In spring 2025, Professor Prior will return to teach classes on poetry and Asian American literature. Congratulations Professor Prior, and best of luck with all of your amazing plans!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zo\u00eb Roos Scheuerman &#8217;24 In December, creative writing professor Michael Prior took the elevator up to the Old Main 4 lounge for what he thought was a routine staff meeting, and met bagpipes, grinning colleagues, and a tenure announcement instead! Professor Prior has been in the English department for four years, and we\u2019re so [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":6183,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6227\/revisions\/8713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}