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Congratulations to Cheryl Mohr. Cheryl has won the 2018 College of the Liberal Arts Staff Excellence Award. She will be celebrated at the annual College Staff Awards ceremony in February.

Xiaoye You has won the 2018 CCCC Research Impact Award for his recent monograph, Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy (Southern Illinois UP, 2016).

Our former doctoral student Ylce Irizzary (now an associate professor at the University of South Florida) has won the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for her monograph Chicana/o and Latina

Sandy Spanier’s recent Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (University of Illinois Press, 2015), won honorable mention for the Morton N. Cohen Award of the MLA.

Debra Hawhee to receive NCA Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award

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Chris Reed has won Penn State's 2019 Faculty Scholar Award in the Arts and Humanities. Congratulations Chris!

Sandy Spanier was recently promoted to an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and WGSS. Congratulations Sandy!

Rachael Lyon Wiley's latest translation project, a full-length translation of contemporary poetry by Irmgard Löschner, in collaboration with the author, ein Baum voll perlgrauer Tauben (a tree full of pearl gray doves), was released by Verlag Berger 11/18

Michael Don's collection of short stories, Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019), has just been published.

Cheryl Glenn has been awarded the CCCC Exemplar Award for 2019.

Big Ten English departments launch Emerging Scholars Lecture Series

Julia Kasdorf and Chris Reed landed one of only a handful of seed grants awarded in the second round of the the Arts and Humanities seed grants in the university strategic planning process.

Ebony Coletu has been selected for a Fulbright Award to the African Regional Research Program

The English Department is pleased to announce the promotion of Charlotte Holmes, Ben Schreier, and Xiaoye You

Stuart Selber is the 2018 recipient of the The Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education

Mark Morrisson, Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award Winner

Bob Burkholder, winner of the Faculty Excellence in Sustainability Award

Sandy Spanier has won the Faculty Scholar Medal in the Arts and Humanities.

Rosemary Jolly, winner of the Pavoucek Shields Faculty Award

Stuart Selber has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research from the Society for Technical Communication.

Congratulations to Cheryl Mohr 2018 Liberal Arts Staff Excellence Award Winner.

Xiaoye You has won the 2018 CCCC Research Impact Award for his recent monograph, Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy (Southern Illinois UP, 2016).

Our former doctoral student Ylce Irizzary (now an associate professor at the University of South Florida) has won the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for her monograph Chicana/o and Latina

Sandy Spanier’s recent Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (University of Illinois Press, 2015), won honorable mention for the Morton N. Cohen Award of the MLA.

Debra Hawhee to receive NCA Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award

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