UL System names Armand Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
by: Tonya Lowentritt
ARMAND HONORED BY UNIVERISTY OF LOUISIANA SYSTEM - Southeastern Louisiana University Assistant Professor of Creative Writing David Armand, left, received the Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year award from University of Louisiana System President Jim Henderson recently at the 2020 For Our Future Conference. The event was hosted by the University of Louisiana Monroe. (Photo credit: Emerald McIntyre/ULM Photo Services)
HAMMOND – Award-winning novelist and Southeastern Louisiana University Assistant
Professor of Creative Writing David Armand has been named the University of Louisiana
System’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year. Armand was recognized recently at
the UL System’s For Our Future Conference in Monroe.
“The Universities of Louisiana Outstanding Faculty Award is intended to recognize
faculty with a commitment to higher education from within the University of Louisiana
System. This award recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, research and public
service,” said UL System Communication Director Katelyn Wilkerson. “David Armand was
selected from a highly eligible pool of nominees for his exemplification of the qualities
of an outstanding faculty member.”
A native of Folsom and resident of Hammond with both undergraduate and graduate
degrees in English from Southeastern, Armand is the author of three novels, two books
of poetry and a memoir based on the mental health struggles of his mother. He is due
to have another novel published later this year.
He has spoken at a number of universities as a visiting writer, including James
Madison University, Southeast Missouri State University, and the Mississippi University
for Women, where students studied Armand’s work and attended readings and workshops
that he conducted.
Armand served as Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern from 2017-2019 and has been
recognized as a “Gambit Magazine” “40 Under 40” recipient.
In 2016 he was honored with Southeastern’s President’s Award for Artistic Activity,
the Southeastern Faculty Senate President’s Award, and was named the St. Tammany President’s
Artist of the Year. His first novel, “The Pugilist’s Wife,” earned the George Garrett
Fiction Prize, and his second novel, “Harlow,” was listed on Amazon’s best novels
about dysfunctional families.
Armand has been recognized by reviewers as an up-and-coming Southern author whose
works have been compared to William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy.
He draws heavily from his experiences in south Louisiana in his work.
In addition to “The Pugilist’s Wife” and “Harlow,” his works include the novel
“The Gorge,” the memoir “My Mother’s House,” and the book of poetry “The Deep Woods.”
