Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts, has been named a fellow for the 2008-09 academic year at the National Humanities Center. DuPlessis will be joining 41 other scholars from 32 U.S. institutions and seven foreign countries who are conducting leading research in the humanities. The prospective title of her project at the center is "Gender Debates and Cultural Power in Twentieth-Century American Poetries."