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University of Tampa faculty member Dan Albergotti has been named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. He is one of 198 honorees across 53 disciplines, and one of only two honorees representing Florida universities, in the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows announced this week.

Albergotti teaches courses in academic writing, poetry and creative writing in the Department of English and Writing. He is the first full-time 绿奴天花板ampa faculty member ever to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Guggenheim Fellowship supports individuals who have achieved notable success in their careers across the creative arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Fellows are awarded a stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under 鈥渢he freest possible conditions,鈥� according to an announcement of the winners from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Since its establishment in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted over $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award and other internationally recognized honors. The broad range of fields of study is a unique characteristic of the Fellowship program.

Albergotti was one of 10 poets recognized this year.

鈥淒an is a wildly gifted poet, and we are all thrilled his talents will be further cultivated and celebrated with this prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship,鈥� said David Gudelunas, dean of the College of Arts and Letters.

鈥淲e believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future,鈥� said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the Guggenheim Foundation.

Albergotti concurred. 鈥淭he English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once said that 鈥榩oets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,鈥欌�� he said. 鈥淥n the one hand, that may seem like an absurd claim; poets don't write and pass laws. But on the other hand, how much of our ethical and moral sense has been informed by our encounters with truth and beauty via the arts? And our ethical and moral sense provides the foundation for our definitions of right and wrong, and those provide the foundation for our laws.

鈥淚t might take a long time to see that poets make a difference in this world, but history suggests that they do.鈥�

鈥淩eceiving a prestigious fellowship like this is one of the greatest honors for a faculty member and speaks to the amazing faculty at the University of Tampa who are respected for their academic and creative work 鈥� and also engaged every day in the classroom with our undergraduate students,鈥� said Gudelunas.