Professor William (Billy) Acree received the Graduate Student Senate’s 2019 Outstanding Faculty Mentor award. The GSS Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards are given out annually to recognize faculty and staff members who “make significant contributions to the graduate student experience.”
Professor William (Billy) Acree received the Graduate Student Senate’s 2019 Outstanding Faculty Mentor award. The Graduate Student Senate (GSS) is composed of representatives from all Arts and Sciences M.A. and Ph.D. graduate programs at Washington University. The GSS Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards are given out annually to recognize faculty and staff members who “make significant contributions to the graduate student experience.”
Billy Acree is an Associate Professor of Spanish, American Culture Studies (Affiliate) and Performing Arts (Affiliate), as well as the Director of Graduate Studies in Hispanic Studies. His areas of specialization include 19th-century Latin American literary and cultural studies, print and popular culture, and writing and collective identities. He has taught undergraduate as well as graduate courses at Wash U since joining the department in 2009.
His most recent book, Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata (1780-1910) was published with Vanderbilt University Press in 2011, and his forthcoming text, Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina & Uruguay, will be part of the University of New Mexico Press’s Diálogo Series.
Professor Acree will be honored at this year’s 2019 Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 3rd at 4:00pm in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.
