Awards, Publications, & Projects - 2021

Awards, Publications, & Projects - 2021

Faculty
Gina Bloom GamesGina Bloom co-edited the book Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England with Tom Bishop and Erika T. Lin; the book will be out this summer from Amsterdam University Press as part of their "Cultures of Play 1300-1700" series. Bloom's article “Playful Pedagogy and Social Justice: Digital Embodiment in the Shakespeare Classroom," co-authored with Nicholas Toothman and Evan Buswell, is also forthcoming this year in the journal Shakespeare Survey as part of a special issue on Shakespeare and Education. She delivered a talk about her collaboration with South African high school teachers as part of a series on Digital Shakespeare at San Diego State University. It can be viewed here. 
Frances Dolan Digging the PastThe Pulter ProjectFrances Dolan's book, Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture, was published this year by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In addition, she serves on the advisory board and as a contributing editor for The Pulter Project, the online, open-access edition of a seventeenth-century manuscript of poems by Lady Hester Pulter, which has won the 2020 MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographic, or Archival Scholarship. She also produced a series of picture book readings for Virtual Picnic Day.
Elizabeth Freeman Beside You in TimeSAQElizabeth Freeman’s book Beside You In Time was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist. She also co-edited a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly with Ellen Samuels on “Crip Temporalities” (April 2021).
Pam Houston AirmailIn October 2020 Pam Houston published a book called Airmail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place, co-written with environmental activist and memoirist Amy Irvine. It is a book of letters exchanged during lockdown, published by Torrey House Press.
Hsuan L. Hsu The Smell of RiskHsuan Hsu's book, The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics, was published by NYU Press in 2020. He also wrote several essays on olfaction, race, and colonialism, which are forthcoming in Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance, Law and the Senses, Literature and the Senses, and Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. "The Spatial Turn and Critical Race Studies," an essay Hsuan co-authored with PhD candidate Sophia Bamert, is forthcoming in The City in American Literature and Culture; "Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie," co-authored with PhD alum Bryan Yazell, is forthcoming in New Centennial Review.
Tobias Menely ClimateTobias Menely published Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics with the University of Chicago Press.
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
(Liz Miller)		 Extraction EcologiesLiz Miller completed her book Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion, which is now in press and will appear with Princeton University Press in October 2021. She also published the first fully annotated edition of George Bernard Shaw's political writings, Major Political Writings, which was published by Oxford University Press in January 2021. Along with two colleagues from UCLA and CSU Long Beach, Miller was named a Clark Professor at the Clark Library, UCLA, where she will co-convene a core program on "Victorian Apocalypse" in the 2021-22 academic year.
Tiffany Jo Werth As PI, Tiffany Werth was awarded an University of California Humanities Research Institute grant for a multicampus faculty working group (2020/2021) on the topic of "On the sea and coastal Ecologies: early modern pasts and uncertain futures."

 

Graduate Students
Lindsay Baltus Lindsay Baltus is now working for the State of Oregon as a Communications Specialist in the newly formed Oregon COVID-19 Response and Recovery Unit. In this role she is telling stories to help state employees and the broader public understand the pandemic response and building a trauma-informed and equitable workplace culture for public health employees, from epidemiologists to contact tracers to policy analysts.
Sophia Bamert This year, Sophia published an article, "Marita Bonner's Aesthetics of Discrimination," in the African American Review (vol. 53, no. 4), as well as a review of Adrienne Brown's The Black Skyscraper in the Space Between Journal (vol. 16). She has a chapter co-authored with Hsuan Hsu, "The Spatial Turn and Critical Race Studies," that is forthcoming this summer in the edited collection The City in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2021). She enjoyed spending the year participating in the Faculty Diversity Internship Program at the Los Rios Community College District. Starting in the fall, she will be a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Engagements core curriculum at the University of Virginia.
David Barrera David Barrera received a 2021-2022 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship.
Ava Bindas Ava Bindas was the recipient of a Dean’s Summer Graduate Fellowship Award.
Gerardo Lamadrid Castillo Gerardo Lamadrid Castillo won the Elliot Gilbert and Graduate Student Writing Prize for Poetry for "Mirrors."
Brianna Cockett-Mamiya Brianna Cockett-Mamiya won the Elliot Gilbert and Graduate Student Writing Prize for Fiction for "Lucky to Be Here."
Katherine Buse Katherine Buse published "The Working Planetologist," a chapter about climate science and science fiction, in 2020. Another article, "Genesis Effects," is coming out in the Spring issue of Configurations. She will begin a postdoc at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago this July.
Rowena Chodkowski In the 2020-2021 Academic Year, Rowena Chodkowski presented an artist presentation, Odd Bots at the 20th Annual Global Fusion Conference, presented a paper, Saving Skyscales: Guild Wars 2 Games the Anthropocene at the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, and was admitted to Concordia University's PhD in Humanities, as a part of the research-creation stream.
Rachael DeWitt Rachael DeWitt received a 2021 Unhatching Research Award from HATCH. She was a contributor to the Thoreau Society Bulletin and in her capacity as coordinator for the Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists’s Graduate Student Collective she helped initiate a number of projects including the G19 New Book Forum.
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal Ranjodh Dhaliwal received the Bruns prize from the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts; a junior scholarship to be a fellow at the research cluster 'Media of Cooperation' at the University of Siegen (Germany); the best student paper award from the Media Science and Technology Special Interest Group in the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS); the Critical Theory Fellowship from Critical Theory @ UC Davis to represent Davis at School of Criticism and Theory in Cornell 2021 summer; and a short-term travel award from the Hagley Museum. He also finished his PhD and will join the University of Notre Dame du Lac as an Assistant Professor in the department of English.
Averyl Dietering Averyl Dietering presented "Abject Black Flesh and the Manufacture of White Fear in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations" at the Shakespeare Association of America's Next Generation Plenary. Her article of the same title is forthcoming in Shakespeare Studies. Her article, "Black Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black Racism" is forthcoming in Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature, a collection edited by Carol Mejia LaPerle and published by ACMRS. She has accepted a job offer from Mockingbird Analytics to work as a Grant Writing and Communications Associate (a successful alt-ac career transition!).
Margaret Duvall Margaret Duvall will be part of the 2021 Mellon Public Scholar cohort.
Sawyer Elms Sawyer Elms won the Graduate Student Writing Prize for Non-Fiction for "Parts Left Out."
Ally Fulton Ally Fulton was the recipient of a Dean’s Summer Graduate Fellowship Award.
Yasmine Hachimi Yasmine Hachimi recently shared her work, A beauty not so whitely: Anne Boleyn and the Politics of Race, in the Race-ing and Queering Queens seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America conference (conducted virtually). She has submitted this work for publication with a peer-reviewed journal and is currently expanding it into a dissertation chapter. Over the past year and a half, Yasmine actively divested herself from white-centered organizations and is happy to be a part of the RaceB4Race and #ShakeRace communities, which center the expertise, perspectives, and interests of scholars of color. She is the recipient of an award from Undergraduate Education, recognizing her contributions to the Undergraduate Research Center, including her work as the Program Coordinator for the Mentor-Mentee Program in Humanities, Arts, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences. Yasmine was recently invited to participate in the ACLS Design Workshop for New Academy, which aims to identify the most pressing challenges facing the humanities and social sciences, and to design and circulate concrete, collaborative approaches to address them. Yasmine also received a 2021-2022 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship.
Amanda Kong Amanda Kong will be a 2021 UC Humanities Consortium Fellow this summer.
Tom Lin The Thousand CrimesTom Lin's debut novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, was published by Little, Brown and Company. One review describes “Lin’s beautifully imagined first novel” as an “extraordinary epic with page-turning, often cinematic action that transcends the parameters of genre fiction.” 
Tori McCandless This past year, Tori McCandless was a Digital Conference Fellow for the Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, received a Dean's Summer Fellowship and has a forum contribution on writing within the Environmental Humanities titled "Outside Form," forthcoming (2022) in the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
Margaret A. Miller Margaret Miller received two fellowships this year: Professors for the Future and Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Bodega Marine Laboratory Fellowship. Margaret published “Making Room: Queer Domesticity in Jane Austen’s Emma and the Anne Lister Diaries," which is a chapter in a 2021 Routledge anthology called Home is Where the Start is: Interrogating Eighteenth Century Domesticity; they also published an LA Review of Books article (April 2021) titled “Queer Girls in The Wilds: Refusing White Feminism’s Settler Colonial Fantasy"; and they published a book review for Victoriographies on Dustin Friedman's Before Queer Theory and on Michael Field: Decadent Moderns, edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo. Miller received an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award and they have an exhibit at the Shrem up through September 6 called “Life Forms at Boundaries: a trans*-ecology.” Miller also received a 2021-2022 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship.
Michael Mlekoday Michael Mlekoday’s second book of poetry, All Earthly Bodies, was chosen by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series and will be published by Univ. of Arkansas Press in 2022. Mlekoday won the 2020 Editors’ Award in Poetry from The Florida Review, and also had poems published in The Rumpus and Ninth Letter.
Lauren S. Peterson Lauren Peterson has a forthcoming article (this summer) in Venti. The article is currently titled "Labored Breathing, Coughing Specters: Mary Barton’s Depictions of Manchester’s 'Invisible Evil.'"
Samuel Pizelo Samuel Pizelo participated in the release of a free and open-access archive exploration website, Project Quintessence, which he co-created with Arthur Koehl under the direction of Carl Stahmer at the UC Davis DataLab. He presented this work with Arthur and Carl at the Shakespeare Association of America annual conference.
Bethany Qualls Bethany Qualls co-wrote an introduction to Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina with Sarah R. Creel and Anna K. Sagal (Renard Press), published in March 2021. Her book review of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Broadview) appeared in ABO and she has a chapter forthcoming on gossip and Haywood’s The Tea-Table in the edited collection A Spy on Haywood (Routledge). Her work on tea tables has also been featured by UC Davis’s own Global Tea Institute. For the 2021 virtual ASECS annual conference she organized two roundtables entitled “That’s so metal: Hardcore Heroines of the Long Eighteenth Century,” plus presented her work on social media in both 18th- and 21st-century contexts. She continues to co-coordinate the #WriteWithAphra global collaborative writing support initiative. This summer, as a Mellon Public Scholar, she will complete a project with Letterform Archive on recovering the forgotten women of metal type design.
Jonathan Radocay Jonathan Radocay published an article titled "Winnemem Wintu Geographies and Lyric Modernity" in Modernism/modernity Print Plus 5:4 (March 2021). He has also received a 2021-2022 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship and a grant from the American Philosophical Society's Phillips Fund for Native American Research. This summer, he will be part of the 2021 cohort of Mellon Public Scholars.
Ashley Sarpong Ashley Sarpong published "The Grounds of Irish Heritage: Soil, Racialism and Edmund Spenser’s Ethno-Georgic Imaginary" in Spenser Review Volume 50 Issue 3 in Fall 2020.
Breanne Weber Breanne Weber is co-editor of the forthcoming Playbook Wills, 1529-1690, under contract with Manchester University Press. Her book review on early modern physician Thomas Plume’s book collection is forthcoming in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. In February 2021, she published a public-facing article titled "Book History in the Bay Area" in Contingent Magazine. Breanne is also the recipient of a 2021 Access Scholarship to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Breanne won this year's Miller Essay Prize. 

Emeriti
Lynn Freed Lynn Freed has been working on her eleventh book, a memoir.
Sandra M Gilbert Judgement DayStill MadSandra Gilbert published Judgment Day, a book of poems, and forthcoming this August is Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950-2020 coauthored with Susan Gubar.
Peter Hays Simply HemingwayPeter Hays published one article this year and had another accepted; he also finished a short book, Simply Hemingway for publication by Charles Carlini. He gave a Q & A Zoom session to 60 people on OLLI after the Ken Burns' bio showed on PBS and will do a similar session this month on Hemingway's war stories for the Michigan Hemingway Society.
Alessa Johns This year Alessa Johns published “Translations,” in Mary Wollstonecraft in Context, ed. Paul Keen and Nancy Johnson (Cambridge University Press); “Anna Jameson,” in Handbook of British Travel Writing, ed. Barbara Schaff (De Gruyter); and “‘The Tranquil March of the Revolution’: German and German-American Reverberations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings,” in Reverberations of Revolution, ed. Michael Boyden and Elizabeth Amann (Edinburgh University Press).
Linda Morris Linda Morris co-authored “Camping Out with Miss Chief: Kent Monkman’s Ironic Journey" with Kate Morris, published in Studies in American Humor's special issue on Native American humor. She and Kate Morris also gave the talk, “Continental Drift: On Monuments, Memory, and Kent Monkman,” at the Elmira Center for Mark Twain Studies in October, 2020. Morris reviewed several books including Susan K. Harris's Mark Twain, The World, and Me for Women’s Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal and Benjamin Griffin's Mark Twain’s Civil War for The Mark Twain Annual.
Alan Bacher Williamson Alan Williamson's latest psychoanalytic essay, "Trouser Parts," was accepted for publication in American Imago.
Karl Zender Shakespeare & FaulknerKarl Zender published his book Shakespeare and Faulkner: Selves and Others this May. He also has a short essay, “Faulkner at the Movies: Lucas Burch/Joe Brown/Joe E. Brown,” forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly.

Lecturers
Iris Jamahl Dunkle Charmian Kittredge LondonIris Jamahl Dunkle (lecturer) published two books this year: the first full length biography on Charmian Kittredge London, Jack London's wife Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and her fourth poetry collection West: Fire : Archive (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2021). She recently won the Caro Fellowship from Biographers International and her poem, "House Empty, Speaks a Loud Truth" was featured as a poem-a-day poem at Poets.org on April 8.

Graduate Alumni
Jenae Druckman Cohn Skim, Dive, SurfaceJenae Cohn (PhD alum) has a new book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading, published by West Virginia University Press. This year she started as Director of Academic Technology at Sacramento State.
Aimee Fountain This year Aimee Fountain took a job as Senior Science Writer at Lumos Labs.
John Garrison John Garrison (PhD alum), Professor of English and Department Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at Grinnell College, is one of the two winners of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in English Literature.
Annette Hulbert Annette Hulbert (PhD alum, lecturer) has a forthcoming essay in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities with Bucknell University Press, "Storm Apostrophe."
Josef Nguyen The Digital is Kid StuffJosef Nguyen has a new book out with University of Minnesota Press, The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy.
Sarah Petersen This year Sarah Petersen took a job as Education Specialist at the Bay Area literacy non-profit YokyWorks.
Will Hughes Will Hughes has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Porterville College, part of the Kern Community College District in the Central Valley.
Renee Bryzik Renee Bryzik has accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the English Department at St. Clair County Community College in Michigan.

 

Undergraduate
Ashley Jazmin Arrucha Ashley Jazmin Arrucha was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Patricia Therese Bennett Patricia Therese Bennett was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Julietta Samvel Bisharyan Julietta Samvel Bisharyan was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Olivia Estefana Blanco Olivia Estefana Blanco was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Katherine Lauren Booth Katherine Lauren Booth was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Tynan Daniel Brooks Tynan Daniel Brooks was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Megan Lauren Broudy Megan Lauren Broudy was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Blair Olivia Butler Blair Olivia Butler was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Annette B. Campos Carrillo Annette B. Campos Carrillo was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Victoria Jeehyun Choi Victoria Jeehyun Choi was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Ruth Abigail Christopher Ruth Christopher was awarded Outstanding Graduating Senior. Christopher was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Lucero Cortes Vitervo Lucero Cortes Vitervo was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Diana Madeline Cruz Diana Madeline Cruz was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
BridgeAnne Brake d'Avignon BridgeAnne Brake d'Avignon was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Emily Naomi De Paz Emily Naomi De Paz was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Marco James Di Pasquale Marco James Di Pasquale was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Wyatt Anthony Dias Wyatt Anthony Dias was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Emma Rose Douglas Emma Rose Douglas was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Teja Dusanapudi Teja Dusanapudi won the English Department Essay Prize in 1st Place for the essay “Paradise Aborted.” Dusanapudi also won the 2021 Diana Lynn Bogart Prize for Fiction for "A Gentle Earth" and "A Study on Pleasure."
Meena Corrine Espinoza Meena Corrine Espinoza was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Katlin N. Fleck Katlin N. Fleck was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Deanna Vitalievna Gasparyan Deanna Vitalievna Gasparyan was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Elena Consuelo Granados Elena Consuelo Granados was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Benton Locke Harshaw Benton Locke Harshaw was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Jennifer Rose Heath Jennifer Rose Heath was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Suchaeta Hegde Suchaeta Hegde was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Maiya Annalisa Hernandez Maiya Annalisa Hernandez was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Rolvon Dajohn Howard Rolvon Dajohn Howard was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Ming Yu (Jenny) Hsiao Ming Yu (Jenny) Hsiao was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Lauren Hwang-Finkelman Lauren Hwang-Finkelman won the 2021 Diana Lynn Bogart Prize for Fiction for "Remains," "May, 2020," and "The Year of the Rat." Hwang-Finkelman won the Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing 1st Place Prize for "Pure," "May, 2020," and "Remains." Hwang-Finkelman won third place in the Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for "Suspect/Kin" and "When My Mother Gets Mad at Me." Hwang-Finkelman also received honorable mention in the Elliot Gilbert Award for the Best Creative Honors Writing Project and was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Jakob Johnson Jakob Johnson won honorable mention in the Pamela Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for "A Convergence of Remnants.”
Hannah Saeyoung Jeong Hannah Saeyoung Jeong was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Karen Cristina Kay Karen Kay received honorable mention for Outstanding Graduating Senior. Kay was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Livia Leigh Keene Livia Leigh Keene was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Ivy Mirabai Kernytsky Ivy Mirabai Kernytsky was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Gabriel Ketron Gabriel Ketron won honorable mention in the Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize for “Untitled.”
Madison May Kooba Madison May Kooba was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Aimee Marie Lagrandeur Aimee Marie Lagrandeur was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Huan Young Lee Huan Young Lee was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
George Chuan Yin Liao George Chuan Yin Liao was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Caitlyn Megan Liu Caitlyn Liu’s thesis “Chinese American History and Layered Storytelling in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men” received honorable mention for the Elliot Gilbert Award for the Best Critical Honors thesis. Liu was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Nicole Marie Caylene Mackes Nicole Marie Caylene Mackes was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
William George Macomber William George Macomber was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Vic Mapson Vic Mapson was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Mimi Mcmillan Mimi Mcmillan’s thesis, “‘Like Footsteps Upon Wool:’ Philology, Ecology, & Tennyson’s Early Lyrics” won the Elliot Gilbert Award for the Best Critical Honors thesis award. Mcmillan’s essay, “Whitman’s and Dickinson’s Ecology of the Grave” received honorable mention for the English Department Essay Prize.
Elijah Khalil Meno Elijah Khalil Meno was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Elizabeth D. Mercado Elizabeth Mercado’s “Reconocida” tied for the Elliot Gilbert Award for the Best Creative Honors Writing Project. Mercado was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Ann Caroline Meyer Ann Caroline Meyer was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Kristina Anna Moseidjord Kristina Anna Moseidjord won second place in the Pamela Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for "Sundowning in the Wind Rivers," "falling in love, in WY again," "bizzed," and "grief as it has been to me."
Mianna Musashi Muscat Mianna Musashi Muscat was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Brenda Dang Nguyen Brenda Dang Nguyen was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Linhchi Nguyen Linhchi Nguyen was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Viktor Lenart Niemiec Viktor Lenart Niemiec was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Marina Gobnait Olney Marina Gobnait Olney was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Natalie Marie Otero Natalie Marie Otero was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Oh Nyuh (Anna) Pak Oh Nyuh (Anna) Pak was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Matthew Ronald Pimley Matthew Pimley’s “Collection of Short Stories and an Essay” tied for the Elliot Gilbert Award for the Best Creative Honors Writing Project. Pimley also won second place in the Pamela Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for "The Taste of Silt." Pimley won second place in the Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize for “Hamburger Heart.” Pimley received honorable mention for Outstanding Graduating Senior and was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Anna Belle Rankin Anna Belle Rankin was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Matthew Taylor Rogers Matthew Taylor Rogers was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Vincent Andre Guadalupe Sanchez Vincent Andre Guadalupe Sanchez was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Adam Peter Savage Adam Peter Savage was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Helena Pearl Sherman Helena Pearl Sherman was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Taylor Annmaire Silva Taylor Annmaire Silva was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Alina Stefanco Alina Stefanco was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Eric Neal Sweeney Eric Neal Sweeney was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Anne Thiselton-Dyer Anne Thiselton-Dyer won the Pamela Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing 1st Place Prize for "The Natural Look," "Wonder," "The Passenger," and "Guard."
Damieka Marrie Thomas Damieka Marrie Thomas was the first place winner of the Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize for the poems "Progress," "Keepers of the Land," and "White Girl." Thomas won the 2021 Diana Lynn Bogart Prize for Fiction for “Heat Visions.” Thomas was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Soffia Kathryn Tietze Soffia Kathryn Tietze was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Ivy Tillich Ivy Tillich was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Eve Lisette Vazquez Eve Lisette Vazquez was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Gil Vitro Gil Vitro was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Claire Volkmann Claire Volkmann’s essay “Drawing from Imagination” won second place for the English Department Essay Prize.
Coco Wang Coco Wang was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Drew Cimone Watson Drew Cimone Watson was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Mikaela Hannah Wayne Mikaela Hannah Wayne was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Cheyenne Renee Wiseman Cheyenne Renee Wiseman won third place in the Pamela Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for "Face Value" and "The Enchantress of Meade Creek." Wiseman was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Caitlyn Skye Woodall Caitlyn Skye Woodall was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
John Franklin Wright John Wright received honorable mention for Outstanding Graduating Senior. Wright was also cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Deborah Grace Yelle Deborah Grace Yelle was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Michael Jaffar Zadeh Michael Jaffar Zadeh was cited for outstanding performance in the major.
Sabrina O'Hara Zeitohn Sabrina O'Hara Zeitohn was cited for outstanding performance in the major.