杏吧视频 writing faculty and graduate and undergraduate students were recognized for their achievements at the Writing Program Awards Ceremony in April.
Faculty awards
Jennifer Carter, associate professor of materials science and engineering, received the Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary and Professional Writing for her dedication to instruction in writing in both the classroom and in her research. One of Carter鈥檚 students described her ability to uphold a 鈥減ositive co-writing space鈥 during team meetings, influencing students to provide feedback to their peers.
Narcisz Fejes, SAGES Teaching Fellow and lecturer in the English department, was granted the SAGES Excellence in Writing Instruction Award. Fejes鈥 positive reviews from students emphasized her impactful and creative teaching as a SAGES professor, and the dedication she showed her students during Writing Resource Center (WRC) sessions outside of class.
The WRC Excellence in Consulting Award, which acknowledges faculty members who provide exceptional instruction to students at the Writing Resource Center, was awarded to two recipients this year: Bernie Jim, SAGES Teaching Fellow and lecturer in the department of history, and Meredith Steck, SAGES Teaching Fellow and lecturer in English. Both Jim and Steck were nominated for their outstanding teaching skills that have significantly contributed to students鈥 writing abilities.
Graduate students
English department PhD students Charlie Ericson and Camila Ring were recognized for their impact on 杏吧视频鈥檚 Writing Program through their creative writing and teaching abilities. Ericson received the Timothy Calhoun Memorial Prize for Poetry, an award reserved for the best poem or group of poems by a graduate student in the English department. Ring was given the Graduate Dean鈥檚 Instructional Excellence Award from the School of Graduate Studies.
Undergraduate students
The following students received University Seminar Essay Prizes for their outstanding works in First and/or University Seminars in the 2020-2021 academic year:
- Blake Botto: 鈥淧roposal for Change: Building a Bridge to a New, More Diverse Audience for Cuyahoga Valley National Park鈥
- Claire Hahn: "Redistributing Power through Magical Realism: Pan鈥檚 Labyrinth and The Shape of Water"
- Sofia Lemberg: "The Use of Music as a Tool of Queer Allyship by Non-Queer Artists"
- Mirra Rasmussen: "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Consistency and Inconsistency in the Face of Transgender Identity"
University Seminar Essay Prize recipients (2021-2022):
- William Dehmler: "Purifying the Toxic Substances Control Act鈥
- Jackson Jacobs: "Two Decades in Afghanistan on American Feminism"
First Seminar Essay Prize recipients (fall 2021):
- Adam Rohrer: "Letter to Governor DeWine"
- Ethan Teel: "Facing Existential Fears in Children鈥檚 Metafiction"
- Cordelia Teeters: "Over My Dead Body鈥
Read the award-winning essays on the Writing Program鈥檚 Writing Awards page.
