Late last month, Indiana University’s student newspaper, the Daily Student, reported that three I.U. professors were among “180 recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011.” One of the three was George Hutchinson, I.U.’s Booth Tarkington professor of literary studies. “I’m working on a book on American literature and culture in the 1940s, which is a remarkably neglected period in American literary history,” he said.