VINCENT P. PECORA portrait
  • Professor of English, English
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Professional Service

  • Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA). Role: Reader of manuscripts. Advisory Board. 10/15/2022 - 10/15/2025
  • National Endowment for the Humanities. Referee for Public Scholar Fellowships. 02/28/2020 - 03/27/2020
  • National Endowment for the Humanities. Role: Reviewer of Senior NEH Fellowship Applications in Comparative Literature. Fellowship Application Review Committee. 05/15/2017 - 07/19/2017
  • Fordham University Press. Manuscript referee. 09/01/2012 - 10/11/2012
  • University of Pennsylvania Press. Manuscript referee. 09/01/2012 - 10/04/2012
  • American Council of Learned Societies. Select ACLS Fellowship Recipients. Selection Committee, 2012-2014. Scholarly Service. Hours Served: 150 International (Global). Interdisciplinary. 10/24/2011 - 02/2014
  • Oxford University Press. Role: Manuscript Referee. Review book submission. 10/2010 - 11/2010
  • _Genre_. Role: Manuscript Referee. Review scholarly article submission . 08/2010 - 09/2010
  • Fordham University Press. Role: Manuscript Referee. Review book submission. 05/2010 - 08/2010

Internal Service

  • British Studies Program. Director, 06/2005 - 11/01/2022. College service.

Honors & Awards

  • Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities Award. College of Humaities, University of Utah, 04/21/2017
  • Co-Director, Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop (Field: “Autochthony and Modernity”), 2014. Social Science Research Council, 02/15/2014
  • Co-Director, Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop (Field: “After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity”), 2010 . Social Science Research Council, 02/15/2010
  • Senior Fellowship, 2001-2002 . National Endowment for the Humanities, 01/2001
  • Fellowship. University of California Humanities Research Institute, 01/1989

In the Media

  • KUER-RadioWest, with Doug Fabrizio. “Secularism and Its Discontents.” Salt Lake City. 04/2006.