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USF English Professor Awarded McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship
USF Department of English Assistant Professor Julia Koets was awarded a McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund, a program that promotes excellence in teaching and research by underrepresented minorities and women.
September 1, 2021Honors and Awards
St. Pete Campus English Professor Publishes Book on Scholarly Life of the Classroom
Thomas Hallock, Professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus, recently published his book titled "Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst".
April 16, 2021Publications
USF English Professor Awarded Prestigious Windham Campbell Prize
Assistant Professor Natalie Scenters-Zapico was recently awarded the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature Prize at Yale University. The prize recognizes her two collections of poetry,The Verging Cities(2016) andLima :: Limon(2019). It also comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000.
April 16, 2021Honors and Awards
USF Grad Student Wins CCCC Travel Award
University of South Florida English PhD student Kara Larson has won a 2021 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), presents the award to 10 recipients each year.
March 25, 2021Honors and Awards
Spring 2021 Accomplishments
As we are in the middle of the Spring semester, we thought it would be nice to share with you all the accomplishments our department has gone through.
March 24, 2021Honors and Awards
USF’s 6x6 Reading Series a Virtual Success
In pre-pandemic times, the hallmark of USF’s 6x6 Reading Series was the bustling energy, coffee aroma, and voices of great writers filling Felicitous on 42nd. This year, 6x6 carried on the tradition remotely, hosting the event on Microsoft Teams.
March 19, 2021Events
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
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 & 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
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
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
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