Dr. Stacie McCormick, assistant professor of English, has won a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Open to faculty members in the third probationary year in the professoriate, the fellowship is designed to support minority junior faculty members as they complete major research and creative projects. The foundation is committed to eliminating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities.

Dr. Stacie McCormick

McCormick is one of 30 recipients of this year’s fellowship. She will be on research leave during the upcoming academic year to complete her book, A Body without a Nation: Performing Slavery and Liminality in Contemporary Black Drama, which explores how contemporary black drama animates the slave past and interrogates the realities of racial progress and black subjectivity.

McCormick earned her bachelor’s degree from Mississippi State University, her master’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and her Ph.D. from the City University of New York. She specializes in 20th and 21st century African American literature and literature of the African Diaspora. Her research and writing traverse a wide terrain, from literary to visual culture, gender and sexuality, race, body and performance studies. McCormick is an active affiliate of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, TCU’s new interdisciplinary initiative aimed at establishing the study of diverse cultures as a key component of the university’s curriculum and culture.