Dr. David Sabrio Dr. David Sabrio, an English professor in the department of language and literature at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, has been named the university’s 11th Regents Professor. This designation was made official by the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System during their meeting last week.

“I feel like the tip of an iceberg; if it weren’t for the 90 percent of the berg under the water’s surface, you wouldn’t see the 10 percent of the berg above water,” Sabrio said. “I attribute this award to a little bit of luck, a bit of longevity and a great deal of collaboration and support from current and former students, faculty members from within my department and across campus and my family, especially my wife, Sue.

“The longer I have worked in this profession, the more I recognize that most of what we achieve is not the result of purely individual effort, but rather the cumulative results of many people’s efforts,” he added. “I see this award as an affirmation of shared accomplishments over a long period of time.”

“It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to work with faculty like David Sabrio,” said Dr. Steven Tallant, university president. “Adding Regents Professor to his long list of professional accomplishments is most deserving. We are lucky to have a person of his caliber working at Texas A&MKingsville.”

Sabrio is in his 26th year of teaching at A&MKingsville. He teaches first-year composition, sophomore literature and upper-level and graduate courses in the English Renaissance, Shakespeare and Research Methods. Sabrio has led cooperative learning workshops in Texas, Colorado, Mississippi, California and Montreal.

At the university, he has received the Hall Teaching Award and the Arts and Sciences Teaching Award. He is co-author of Insightful Writing, a firstyear composition textbook used at over 20 college campuses across the United States. He has published articles and presented over 55 papers at international, national, regional and state conferences in the areas of rhetoric/composition, literature and pedagogy.

Sabrio was selected to give the university’s Annual Faculty Lecture in 1994, and was twice selected to participate in advanced study at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. He has served as chair of the language and literature department, graduate English coordinator and first-year composition coordinator. He has directed 21 master’s theses.

Sabrio’s students have gone on to doctoral and professional programs at Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, the University of California at San Diego, Boston University and the University of Texas at San Antonio. His former students are teaching at the University of New Mexico, the University of Houston- Victoria, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&MKingsville, Del Mar College, Coastal Bend College, South Texas College, Grayson County Community College and Southwest Texas Junior College.

He and his wife Sue, who is a lecturer in the university’s mathematics department, are the parents of three adult children.

Sabrio earned his bachelor’s degree in English with honors from University of New Orleans and his master’s degree from University of South Carolina. He also received his doctoral degree from the University of South Carolina with a major in Renaissance English Literature and a minor in Old and Middle English Literature.

He is a member of the Modern Language Association, South Central Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Professional and Organizational Development Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Popular Culture Association and Conference of College Teachers of English.

The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System established the Regents Professor Award program in 1996 and Regents Fellow Service Award program in 1998 to recognize employees who have made exemplary contributions to their university or agency and to the people of Texas. To date, 118 faculty members have been named Regents Professor and 71 agency professionals have been named Regents Fellow.

Recipients received a $9,000 stipend, a commemorative medallion and a certificate.