FACULTY STARS

One of the Guilford's greatest assets is its faculty and their dedication to their chosen field of study.

George Guo

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George Guo, Professor of Political Science

George Guo will publish his new article, “Intelligence Communities and Culture in China,” in an upcoming book, Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. The book, available in May 2020, discusses how intelligence systems are structured in countries across Asia and the Middle East — from Russia to India, from Turkey to China and Japan, from Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia.

George’s piece delves into the vital role that Chinese intelligence services played in the Communist Chinese Party’s (CCP) survival, competition for power and revolutionary victory against enemies during the 1920s-30s civil war, the Sino-Japanese War and the 1940s civil war.

George is also the author of The Ideal Chinese Political Leader: A Historical and Cultural Perspective (Praeger, 2001), China's Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and The Politics of the Core Leader in China (Cambridge University Press, 2019). In addition, his articles have appeared in many books and prestigious international journals such as The China Quarterly and The China Journal.

Support for George’s academic endeavors has come from the William Carroll Fund for Faculty Growth & Professional Education. The William Carroll Fund was established by Sukhan Kim ’76 in honor of William Carroll, his mentor and Political Science Professor emeritus. These funds honor Bill’s legacy by strengthening faculty members’ research and teaching, which in turn enriches the experience of current and future students.

Jennie Malboeuf

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Jennie Malboeuf, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing

Jennie Malboeuf has received recognition for her poetry, which focuses on how issues of authority, control and violence intersect with gender, sex and memory. Her first collection, God Had a Body (Indiana University Press, 2020), was awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books prize from the Indiana Review and Indiana UP. Her poem “Hubris” received a 2019 Special Mention from the Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Jennie has shared poems in various publications, including The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Harvard Review and The Moth. She was also chosen for inclusion in Best New Poets 2018, a series featuring emerging writers. In 2017, her poem “Original Meal” was included in Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017).

Mylene Dressler

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Mylène Dressler, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing

Mylène Dressler is a critically acclaimed author of novels, short stories and essays. She says her work is heavily influenced by personal and cultural history, and her most recent novels, including The Last To See Me (Simon & Schuster, 2017) and I See You So Close (Simon & Schuster, 2020), reinvent the genre of the ghost story, exploring the idea of haunting as both history and metaphor.

The Last to See Me won the 2017 $10,000 Book Pipeline Award, which evaluates books for their screen potential, as well as the Audiofile Magazine 2018 Earphones Award for Fiction. The book is also currently being spotlighted for promotion and development into a film or television project.

Mylène and Jennie have each been awarded a 2019-20 Artists Fellowship from the N.C. Arts Council. They are two of just 18 artists recognized across North Carolina. They will each receive $10,000 to fund the production of new work throughout 2019-20.

As Mylène prepares to retire from teaching to manage the success of her recent novels (I See You So Close, the latest book in The Last Ghost series, was released in March with a reading and celebration at the College), she shares that her time on campus has been the richest academic experience of her life: “Guilford is everything a teacher and creative artist could hope for — inspiring students, supportive colleagues and a deep and moving worldview. I will always consider myself lucky to be a member of the Guilford family.”

Antoine Williams

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Antoine Williams, Assistant Professor of Art

Antoine Williams was one of five people nationally to be awarded a Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists for 2019. The Harpo Foundation, established in 2006, is a non-profit created to support visual artists who are under-recognized by the field. The foundation seeks to stimulate creative inquiry and encourage new modes of thinking about art.

The money is intended to support Antoine’s practice for the next year. He plans to use the award on supplies for painting, printmaking, site-specific installations and travel.

Antoine has begun work on a new series of paintings entitled Portrait of a Super Predator. “It is about the dehumanization of young Black bodies,” he explains.

The paintings are made out of a process that creates what is called acrylic skins, something Antoine has been experimenting with. The funds from the grant will be put toward creating more of these pieces.

In 2017, Antoine was also named one of only 25 artists across the country to receive a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.

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