- Newsworthy: English Department Award Winners
- EGO Positions Announced for 2006-2007
- Ahsan Chowdhury Selected as Outstanding International Graduate Student
- Scott Simkins, Diana S. Curtis Featured at Conferences
- Phi Beta Kappa Initiates 7 English Majors
- Alumni News: Molly Easo Smith, Duane H. Smith
- Books for Africa Drive
Newsworthy: English Department Award Winners
The following members of the Department received awards at the recent awards ceremony:
Scholarships and Awards – Undergraduate Students
Sigma Tau Delta Inductees
| Leslie Allison | Adrienne Reeves |
| Melissa Bridges | Bonnie Jean Shamp |
| Andrew Brink | Erin Simon |
| Stephen Brooks | Michael Sinnott |
| Maren Brown | Laura Strickland |
| Dorie Chassin | Laura Tomlinson |
| Virginia Fuller | Julie Waltman |
| Victoria Hollis | Lana West |
| Amanda Jones | Justina White |
| Benjamin Martin-Bean | Caroline Wilkinson |
| Whitney Poarch | Lacey Williams |
Robert Hughes Mount, Jr., Poetry Prize
Kathryn Baldwin
“Blue Periods”
World Literature Essay Awards
Jamie Droddy
Alison Camille Jackson
Adam Connor
Junior Scholarships
Kathryn Chandler
Amanda Jones
Julie Waltman
James A. Kirkley Award
Benjamin Martin-Bean
Mary Matherly Durant Award
Adrienne Reeves
Mortar Board's Mildred Enloe Yates Award
Emily McCann
Ruth and Carolyn Faulk Scholarship
Bonnie Jean Shamp
Senior Awards
Nancy Stuart (Ivy) Grimes
Julie Hinz
Jean Wickstrom Liles Endowment for Scholarship in English
Lacey Williams (2005-06)
Tawnysha Lynch (2006-07)
Scholarship and Awards – Graduate Students
Donald H. Cunningham Technical Communication Scholarships
Jennifer Browning
Kimberly Shumack
Varian C. Burkhardt Award
Milla Chappell
Florence Parker Hargis Fellowships
Kellye Corcoran
Pamela Horn
Betty Travis Naugle Fellowship
Brigitte Demasi
Department of English MA Fellowship
Natalie Atkins
Department of English MTPC Fellowship
Natasha Jones
Mildred Enloe Yates Award
Melissa Pojasek
Graduate Writing Awards
Best Paper
Kellye Corcoran
“Dandies in the Opium Den: Dorian Gray as a Fin de Siecle Prototype of the Gutter Dandy”
Best Conference Presentation
Cathy Rex
“The Massachusetts Bay Colony Seal: Images and Identity in Early America ”
Best Publication
Ahsan Chowdhury
“'A Fearful Blazing Star': Signs of the Exclusion Crisis in Robert Knox's An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon (1681)”
Dissertation Writing Semester
Katherine Perry
Sharyn Pulling
Cathy Rex
Teaching Awards
GTA Teaching Award – Master's Level
Elizabeth Childs
GTA Teaching Award – PhD Level
Angela Farmer
Cathy Rex
Instructor Teaching Awards
Marian Carcache
George Littleton
Marvyn Petrucci
World Literature Teaching Awards
Juliana Gray
Jason Richards
Dennis Rygiel
EGO Service Award
Dr. George Crandell
College and University Honors
Spirit of Excellence
Deborah Ward
Phi Kappa Phi Current-Garcia Award in the Humanities
Emily McCann
Graduate School Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student
Abby Whigham
Graduate Student Research Forum
Min Hu
“When Native Speakers (NNS) Meet Non-native Speakers (NNSs): A Study of Foreigner Talk”
Merriwether Fellowship
Cathy Rex
Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Minority Student Recognition Awards
Ashlee Riopka
Brandon Reynolds
Dimitri Williams
Justina White
Minority Graduate Student Awards
Stephanie Allen
Heather Finch
Rabi'a Hakima
Natasha Jones
Congratulations to all!
EGO Positions Announced for 2006-2007
The following are the winning nominees for EGO positions for 2006-2007.
Executive Committee
- PhD Co-chair: Amanda Wood
- MA Co-chair: Jessica Sims
- Secretary: Natasha Jones
- Parliamentarian: Melissa Pojasek
Representatives
- English Center: Jeri Peters
- Composition Committee: Pam Horn
- Graduate Student Council, MA: Antonia Bowden
- Graduate Student Council, Ph.D.: Kellye Corcoran
- Faculty Meeting: Heather Finch
- Benson Lecture Committee: Mary Ann Rygiel
- World Literature Committee: Amie Fletcher
- Graduate Studies Committee: Stephanie Bogle
- TPC: Natasha Jones
- IT: Jackson Fisher
Congratulations to all!
Ahsan Chowdhury Selected as Outstanding International Graduate Student
Ahsan Chowdhury has been selected as the Outstanding International Graduate Student in the College of Liberal Arts for the year 2006. He was presented with a plaque from the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at a ceremony on April 27th. Congratulations, Ahsan!
Scott Simkins, Diana S. Curtis, Ted Hendricks, Rhonda Powers Featured at Conferences
Scott Simkins read his paper “Resisting Women and Defeated Men in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood ” at the Steinbeck and His Contemporaries Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho March 22-25.
Scott also read “Struggling on Two Fronts, Senegalese Patriarchy and French Colonialism: The Undaunted Women of Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood at the Association for Core Texts and Courses conference, Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education in Chicago, April 6-9.
At that same conference, Diana S. Curtis read her paper, “Interchangeable Concepts: The Imperial Impact in Brian Friel's Translations, ” Ted Hendricks read his paper “Teaching Darwin in the Humanities,” and Rhonda Powers read her paper “'I know now how history is made': Wole Soyinka and the Drama of Existence.”
Lastly, Scott successfully defended his dissertation, “John Steinbeck's Populist Aesthetic,” in Hattiesburg at the University of Southern Mississippi on April 21.
Phi Beta Kappa Initiates 7 English Majors
Congratulations to the following English majors who were initiated into Phi Beta Kappa on April 8:
- Samantha Garrett
- Brian Gillis
- Julie Hinz
- Amanda Jones
- Emily McCann
- Adrienne Reeves
- Anna Stamps
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest undergraduate honors organization, was founded in 1776. Auburn University gained its chapter in 2001, joining the 272 institutions of higher learning that currently have PBK chapters. Only the most outstanding students—who meet specific criteria set by the chapter—are elected to Phi Beta Kappa. More information may be found at the Phi Beta Kappa website.
Alumni News: Molly Easo Smith, Duane H. Smith
As of July 1, Molly Easo Smith (Auburn PhD 1988) will be leaving her current position as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University to become Provost of Wheaton College in Norton, MA.
Duane H. Smith (Auburn PhD 1992) is currently Assistant Provost at Temple University.
Books for Africa Drive
The collection bin for Books for Africa has been moved from HC 8009 to the English Center in HC 3183. Another collection bin has been set up in The Plainsman office in Foy B-100.
Acceptable items for donation include textbooks with a copyright of 2000 or newer and literature regardless of copyright.
Magazines, journals, and Auburn specific texts are not acceptable. Collection will continue through the end of the semester.
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Last updated May 3, 2006