As we start back this Fall term, the University of South Florida’s Department of English is immensely proud to highlight and celebrate our accomplished, award-winning faculty and students for the Fall 2020, the Spring 2021, the Fall 2021, and the Spring 2022 terms.
Faculty
Thomas Hallock
- A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst. U of Alabama P, 2021.
Nathan Johnson
- Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age. U of Alabama P, 2020.
Emily Jones
- Right Romance: Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England. Penn State UP, 2019.
Julia Koets
- The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays. Red Hen P, 2019.
- PINE. Evansville, Southern Indiana Review P, 2021.
Gary Lemons
- Building Womanist Coalitions: Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love. U of Illinois P, 2019.
- Scott Neumeister, and Susie Hoeller. Let Love Lead on a Course to Freedom. BookLocker.com, 2019.
- Liberation for the Oppressed: Community Healing through Activist Transformation, a Call to CHAT. BookLocker.com, 2022.
John Lennon
- Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification. U Chicago P, 2021.
- --- and Magnus Nisson, editors. Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives, Volume 2. Stockholm UP, 2020.
Jill McCracken
- Learning from Women in Jail: Creating Community- Based Participatory Action Research. Springerbriefs in Anthropology and Ethics Series, 2019.
Lisa Melonçon
- --- and Catherine Molloy, editors. Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric. Routledge, 2022.
- --- and Joanna Schreiber. Assembling critical components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication. WAC Clearinghouse/U of Colorado P, 2022.
- et al., editors. Rhetoric of health and medicine as/is: Theoretical foundations for the field. Ohio State UP, 2020.
Heather Sellers
- Field Notes from the Flood Zone. BOA Editions, 2022.
- The Present State of the Garden. Lynx House P, 2021.
- The Practice of Creative Writing. 4th ed., Macmillan, 2021.
Phil Sipiora
- editor. Ida Lupino, Filmmaker. Bloomsbury Academic P, 2021.
Lisa Starks
- Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre. Edinburgh UP, 2020.
English Honors Program Graduates – Spring 2022
| Peyton Bailey | Ashton Hopson |
| Aidan Solis | Jasmine Lamy |
| Ryan Grau | Kyden Payne |
| Nicole Rullan-Robert | María Lucía Carillo González |
Outstanding English Honors Student Award Winners
- María Lucía Carillo González
- Emma Frank
Phi Beta Kappa
Members
- Marley Burwell
- Cassidy Westley
Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards
Karli Davis
- Scott Deering Hamilton Scholarship
María Lucía Carillo González
- James Parrish Award for Outstanding English Student
Robin Konger
- Charles F. Brooks Award for Excellence in Technical Writing
Katrina Nieborg
- Student Society for Technical and Professional Writing Award
Carly Kathryn Powell
- Edwaes and Mary Martin Award
Anna Tillis
- Erik Miller Memorial Scholarship
Sarah Townsend
- Dina and Brad Stenz Writers Scholarship
Thread - Recognition of Editorial Excellence
Officers
| Tatiana Clark | Aidan Solis |
| Dylan Cohen |
Editors
| Anna Khoury | Casey Finley |
| Audra Nikolajski | Soleil Knowles |
| Angelica Johnson |
Mentorship Program Awards
Mimi Coto
- Outstanding Mentor Nominated by a Mentee
Gabrielle Grilli
- Engaging the Humanities Mentor Program Leadership Award
Zoe Osik
- Outstanding Mentee Nominated by a Mentor
Callie Treadway
- Engaging the Humanities Mentor Program Leadership Award
Graduate Scholarships and Awards
Brittani Allen
- Harry and Julian Newman Archival Research Scholarship
Justiss Burry
- Irving and Mollie Rubin Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Student
Taylor DeMichael
- John and Dorothy Iorio Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Student in Literature
Peter Fields
- EGSA Co-President
Jess Griffith
- EGSA Co-President
Briget Horne
- Alice Hearne Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate
Nicole Musselman
- The Carolyn L. Cooley Graduate Scholarship in American Literature
Erin Olds
- Estelle J. Zbar Award for Teaching and Academic Excellence in English
Zabrina Shkurti
- Jack B. Moore Memorial Scholarship
Michelle Sonnenberg
- Joseph Bentley Teaching Scholarship
Creative Writing Scholarships and Awards
Ariana Kayden
- Thomas E. Sanders Scholarship in Creative Writing
- “Lunch Theft”
Kayla Osborne
- Bettye. Esther, and Dorothy Newman Poetry Award
- “How’s the Meditation Going for You?”
Andrea Rinard
- Anspaugh Fiction Award
- “Goat Girls”
Madeline Tran
- Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Award
- “The Worst Thing About a Bald Head is That It’s a Universal Sign”
Callie Treadway
- Ann and Edgar Hirshberg Award for Graduate Achievement in Creative Writing