On Thursday, May 14th, the Department of English, Philosophy, and Languages hosted the annual Awards Ceremony in which we recognized those graduating from our undergraduate and graduate students. This ceremony celebrated all students graduating September 2019, January 2020, and May 2020.
Below, you'll find a list of all students recognized at the ceremony.
GRADUATING ENGLISH MAJORS / GRADUATE STUDENTS
Undergraduate
SUMMER 2019
Rachel Balagot
Cheyenne Thornton
FALL 2019
Dewyna Ahmad *
Martha Roldan *
Valerie Soto
Samson Ventress
Stacey Watson *
SPRING 2020
Ashton Burton
Ashvini Coomarsingham *
Tori Gray
Skyluar James *
Samantha Offenback
Lenah Spencer
Amber Wright *
* Sigma Tau Delta member
Graduate
FALL 2019
Breana Ricketts (MFA)
Carol Telpha (MFA)
SPRING 2020
Shuvanna Alam (MA, Literature)
Joseph Mannino (MFA)
Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai (MFA)
ENGLISH MINORS
Kyleigh Barao
GENDER STUDIES MINORS
Sophia Joy Cox-Wright
Nicole Price
Stacey Watson
POPPER-EDELMAN AWARD WINNERS
First Year Writing: Zachary Embry (ENG 16)
Core Literature: Hannah Fleshyman (ENG 64)
Upper Division: Sara Mohamed (ENG 178)
ESTHER HYNEMAN GRADUATE AWARD IN POETRY
Joey Mannino
MARILYN BOUTWELL GRADUATE AWARD IN FICTION
Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai
Recognition was also paid to former beloved members of the department who passed away: Seyemour Kleinberg (1933-2020) and Kimarlee Nguyen (1986-2020). The department also honored Lewis Warsh on the occasion of his retirement and Jacob Matkov for his service to the department.
Watch the slideshow presented during the ceremony here:
New books from Andrea Clark Libin, John High, and Michael Sohn!
Three former beloved members of our department have books forthcoming from Wet Cement Press! Andrea Clark Libin, John High, and Michael Sohn created hybrid works, "each mixing writing and visual art in a unique way."
Please see below for book covers and visit the Wet Cement Press website for information on ordering.
“A living, breathing, hybrid work unlike anything I've ever read—an orphan's notebook exhumed from the Moscow station and entrusted to your own red heart. An astonishing evocation of the subterranean universe of childhood, at once devastating and inspiring, a young girl's yearning for the world she's lost, for fresh strawberries, her birth name, and love; a fractured song of forgetting and remembering, and a testament to the death-defying power of art. ” —Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
“the hurricane’s eye of feeling, / whirl inside whirl, world / within world in John High’s / lush color incantations / hang like moons over the road / of his handwritten words / and their moments of attention / come alive within us as though / we were all nested in each other.” —Forrest Gander, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and author of Be With.
“Michael Sohn enlaces new meaning into language by interweaving letters with careful attention to their structure. Serifs, thicks and thins of strokes, ascenders and descenders, and the negative spaces of counters repeat in patterns obscuring words’ expected sounds and meanings and highlighting the visual potential of language. Sohn’s project moves past the manipulations of concrete poetry and into the landscape of formal beauty and the plastic arts." —Jaime Robles, author of Hoard and editor / designer of Cobalt Blue: Writings from the Papers of Sam Francis.
Please see below for book covers and visit the Wet Cement Press website for information on ordering.
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