ADE March Award

The ADE Francis Andrew March Award

In 1984 the ADE Executive Committee established the Francis Andrew March Award to recognize and honor distinguished service to the profession of English at the postsecondary level. March (1823-1911) was a professor of English at Lafayette College and the first professor of English in the United States. In establishing the award, the ADE committee wanted to hold up as an ideal the scholar and teacher who accepts responsibility for strengthening the life and work of departments, the field, and the English studies community considered as a whole. The stature of the individual’s contribution to the profession has been paramount in the executive committee’s considerations, and the committee has sought to recognize the exceptional contributions of individuals in all of ADE’s divisions--larger and smaller BA- and MA-granting departments, two-year colleges, and PhD-granting departments.

The award is given occasionally, as appropriate nominees come to the committee’s attention.

John C. Gerber (Univ. of Iowa), 1984
Richard Lloyd-Jones (Univ. of Iowa), 1987
Carole Edmonds (Kellogg Comm. Coll.), 1988
Wayne C. Booth (Univ. of Chicago), 1991
June Aldridge (Spelman Coll.), 1992
Donald J. Gray (Indiana Univ.) 1993
Patricia Meyer Spacks (Univ. of Virginia), 1996
Charles Harris (Illinois State Univ.), 1997
Marcia Dalbey (Eastern Michigan Univ.), 1998
Philip Smith II (Univ. of Pittsburgh), 1999
Robert Scholes (Brown Univ.), 2000
J. Hillis Miller (Univ. of California, Irvine), 2001
Andrea Lunsford (Stanford Univ.), 2002
Mary Burgan (AAUP and Indiana Univ.), 2003
Phyllis Franklin (MLA and ADE), 2004
James F. Slevin (Georgetown Univ.), 2005
Jacqueline Jones Royster (Ohio State Univ.), 2006