The 2014-15 English Award Ceremony was held on March 27, 2015 in Hagey Hall. Friends, family, and faculty were on hand to celebrate the accomplishments of the department's graduate and undergraduate students. See our Award winners page for a complete list of recipients.
Award winners (from left to right): Kyle Gerber (W.K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship), Morteza Dehghani (Graduate Creative Writing Award for Poetry), Shawn Desouza-Coelho (MA Grade Average Award), Virginia Shay (Lea Vogel-Nimmo Graduate Professionalization Scholarship), Jessica Van De Kemp (TA Award for Excellence in Teaching)
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Aimée Morrison presents Cayley MacArthur with the Graduate Co-op Work Report Award.
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Bruce Dadey presents Sophia Pelka with the History and Theory of Rhetoric Award.
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Dorothy Hadfield presents Claire Matlock with the English 251A Exam Award.
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John Savarese presents Matthew Sleiman with the English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry.
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English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry receipient, Matthew Sleiman, reads his winning submission, "Babel."
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Murray McArthur presents Salman Jivani with the Graduate Professional Writing Award.
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David Nimmo introduces the Lea Vogel-Nimmo Graduate Professionalization Scholarship. This is the first year the award has been presented.
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Aimee Morrison and David Nimmo present Virginia Shay with the Lea Vogel-Nimmo Graduate Professionalization Scholarship
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English Society Creative Writing Award for Prose receipient, Eleanor Howell, reads from her winning submission, "Shendish."
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Albert Shaw Poetry Prize receipient, Sara Kannan, reads one of her winning submissions, "The Student and The Goose: a con-VERSE-ation."
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Award winners (from left to right): Kyle Gerber (W.K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship), Morteza Dehghani (Graduate Creative Writing Award for Poetry), Shawn Desouza-Coelho (MA Grade Average Award), Virginia Shay (Lea Vogel-Nimmo Graduate Professionalization Scholarship), Jessica Van De Kemp (TA Award for Excellence in Teaching)