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Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s short story, “Adjustment of Status,” published in the New England Review last year, has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.

Gabrielle Foreman has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kristy Ganoe, together with Shannon McClellan Brooks (Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, Graduate Consultant at the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence [SITE]) and Laura Cruz (Research Professor at SITE) facilitated “Prompt: A Writing Retreat” on June 18 and August 8.

Stuart Selber has received a Faculty Engagement Award from Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT).

Jessica Moore completed a second master’s degree—in public history with an emphasis on archives.

Erica Durian completed two Provost Endorsements in the domain of “Teaching and Outreach”—one in Inclusive and Equitable Teaching, the other in the Teaching Online Program (TOP).

Elizabeth Kadetsky received a one-year Public Scholars Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to complete her book about the stolen matrika sculptures and the culture of exploitation that contributed to their theft in southwest Rajasthan in 1962.

Lynn Lewis, who joined us this year, published her edited collection, Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline, with the University of Colorado Press (imprint: Utah State University Press).

Gerardo Muniz-Villalon’s article “The Haunted Environment: Ellie’s Engagement Through Retrospection” was published in the collection End-Game: Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture, edited by Lorenzo DiTomaso, James Crossley, Alastair Lockhart and Rachel Wagner (Degruyter).

Tim Loperfido published three short stories this year: “The Ones Who Stay” in Puerto del Sol (59.1, Spring 2024); “Northbound Train to Penn Station” in Potomac Review (Issue 75, Fall 2024); and “The Making of Corey Alonzo” in The MacGuffin, forthcoming Fall 2024.