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A Record 19 ±«Óătv Faculty Recognized With Outstanding Research Achievements Awards

A Record 19 ±«Óătv Faculty Recognized With Outstanding Research Achievements Awards

Nineteen ±«Óătv faculty members whose research set standards in a wide array of disciplines are the new recipients of the university’s 2020 Outstanding Research Achievement Award.

October 20, 2020Honors and Awards

Spring and Summer 2020 English Department Accomplishments

Spring & Summer 2020 English Department Accomplishments

Even while we're in the Fall semester, we would like to go back and share what our faculty and students have accomplished the past two semesters.

September 22, 2020Honors and Awards

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Poetry Student Published in Anthology

Undergraduate student writer Deborah Locicero recently published one of her many successful poems from this course, her ode, in poetry anthology “Florida Bards: Gulf Coast Poets, Pinellas County.” We interviewed Locicero about her experience.

August 20, 2020Publications

Undergraduate Student Published in Professor Grewal’s Class

Undergraduate Student Published in Professor Grewal’s Class

±«Óătv undergraduate student Karen Gonzalez-Videla’s first publication, “A Catalog of the Events After I Boarded a Plane in Buenos Aires, Argentina,” appeared in Sidereal Magazine’s sixth issue.

July 17, 2020Publications

±«Óătv Alumna JaquiradĂ­az Wins Prestigious Whiting Award in Nonfiction

±«Óătv Alumna JaquiradĂ­az Wins Prestigious Whiting Award in Nonfiction

±«Óătv Department of English alumna Jaquira DĂ­az is winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Nonfiction for her memoir Ordinary Girls. Diaz earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from ±«Óătv.

June 19, 2020Honors and Awards

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±«Óătv English Professor Lisa Melonçon Won 2019 Best New Journal Award

“The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine,” founded and co-edited by ±«Óătv English Professor Lisa Melonçon, has won the 2019 Best New Journal award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

February 27, 2020Honors and Awards

English Professor Wins Research Impact Award

English Professor Wins Research Impact Award

±«Óătv Professor Meredith Johnson has won the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award for her book “Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation.”

February 25, 2020Honors and Awards

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±«Óătv English Undergrad Makes Finals in Fems Slam Poetry Tournament

±«Óătv English undergraduate Sara Hammami made the finals in the Solo Poets category of the Feminine Empowerment Movement’s Slam (FEMS) Poetry Tournament. For this article, we asked Hammami what it’s like to compete in the FEMS tournament.

December 18, 2019Department News

Fall 2019 English Department Accomplishments

Fall 2019 English Department Accomplishments

As another semester has come and gone, we would like to share the achievements our faculty and students have accomplished through this Fall term.

December 16, 2019Honors and Awards

2019 Wordrunner Echapbook Prize Awarded to ±«Óătv English Professor Rita Ciresi

2019 Wordrunner Echapbook Prize Awarded to ±«Óătv English Professor Rita Ciresi

“Female Education”, authored by Rita Ciresi, a professor of English at the ±«Óătv, was recently awarded the 2019 Wordrunner eChapbook Prize. “Female Education” offers 14 thought-provoking flash fictions that deal with love, loss, and the hard choices women make.

December 11, 2019Honors and Awards

±«Óătv English Professor Receives Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching

±«Óătv English Professor Receives Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Lisa Melonçon was announced as the winner of the prestigious Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication in May of 2019 at the Honors Reception held during the Society for Technical Communication’s (STC) Annual Summit in Denver, CO.

December 11, 2019Honors and Awards

6 Undergrad and Grad Students Hosted Bi-Annual Event

±«Óătv Students Host Celestial-Themed Reading

The ±«Óătv English department hosted the Fall edition of their biannual 6x6 reading series at Felicitous Coffee and Tea on 42nd Street on Friday, October 19.

November 26, 2019Events

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