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2020 News

Fall 2020 English Department Accomplishments

Fall 2020 Accomplishments

With Fall term coming to an end, we would like to share our faculty and staff accomplishments from this semester.

December 17, 2020Honors and Awards

A Record 19 USF Faculty Recognized With Outstanding Research Achievements Awards

A Record 19 USF Faculty Recognized With Outstanding Research Achievements Awards

Nineteen University of South Florida 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

USF 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

USF Alumna Jaquiradíaz Wins Prestigious Whiting Award in Nonfiction

USF Alumna Jaquiradíaz Wins Prestigious Whiting Award in Nonfiction

University of South Florida Department of English alumna Jaquira Díaz 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 USF.

June 19, 2020Honors and Awards

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USF English Professor Lisa Melonçon Won 2019 Best New Journal Award

“The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine,” founded and co-edited by USF 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

University of South Florida 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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Department of English students, alumni, and faculty can submit news of accomplishments and events for our News section. We welcome announcements of publications, works presented, jobs procured, awards garnered, scholarships awarded, graduate school placements, and upcoming events.