{"id":661,"date":"2017-08-01T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?p=661"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:33:36","slug":"eccles-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/eccles-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Eccles Professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to announce that I have been named the new <strong>Mark and Elisabeth Eccles\u00a0Professor in English<\/strong>. The Eccles family has long supported the mission of the department. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/obituary-mark-eccles-1191983.html\">Mark Eccles<\/a> was a Shakespeare scholar and Elisabeth Eccles was an editor at UW press.\u00a0Mark Eccles was particularly well-known for working with biographical data extracted from public records. Perhaps he would appreciate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinhistory.org\/Records\/Image\/IM107261\">this picture<\/a>\u00a0(please click on link) owned by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinhistory.org\/Records\/Image\/IM107261\">The Wisconsin Historical Society<\/a>\u00a0of his son Bob (currently a member of the department&#8217;s Board of Visitors) competing in the West High School Spelling Bee in 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to announce that I have been named the new Mark and Elisabeth Eccles\u00a0Professor in English. The Eccles family has long supported the mission of the department. Mark Eccles was a Shakespeare scholar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-award"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}