Timothy Schaffert, Adele Hall Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, has earned the University of Nebraska system’s most esteemed honor for research, creative activity, teaching and engagement.
The Outstanding Research and Creative Activity award is a President’s Excellence Award that recognizes faculty who have conducted outstanding research or creative activity of national or international significance.
Schaffert is the author of seven novels, including a trilogy about war and culture: “The Swan Gondola,” set at a world’s fair in Omaha during the Spanish-American War; “The Perfume Thief,” set during the occupation of Paris; and the national bestseller “The Titanic Survivors Book Club,” set in a Paris bookshop during World War I.
His novels have been noted as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, an Oprah Book of the Week, and an LA Times Best Book of Summer, among other distinctions, and have been translated into multiple languages, including French and Italian.
Schaffert also serves as the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and is director of the Department of English’s creative writing program.
