Awards

2008-2009 Academic Year

Jason Peterson won 1st place in the See Creative Writing - Poetry competion through the Women's Studies department at UWEC. Jason's work will be maintained as a permanent part of the Women's Studies collection on campus.

Christy Garibaldi won 2nd place in the See Creative Writing - Poetry competition through the Women's Studies department at UWEC.

Krista Hebel received the Distinguished Thesis Award for her thesis “Wielding 'A Power the Dark Lord Knows Not’: Harry Potter and the Heroics of Care.”

Krista Hebel received the Honorable Mention award through the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools for her thesis “Wielding 'A Power the Dark Lord Knows Not’: Harry Potter and the Heroics of Care.”

Julia Lehman Caldwell's article was accepted for publication in the Winter 2009 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas. "Forging a Future: UW–Stout Professor Brenda Puck Teaches Science and Self-Esteem at STEPS for Girls." Wisconsin People & Ideas (Winter 2009) 18-23.

2007-08 Academic Year

Mary Barnes Nowlan received the Distinguished Thesis Award for her thesis "Using Performance to Teach Literature in the Constructivist English Classroom."

Josiah P. Peeples IV article was accepted for publication in the Fall 2007 issue of The Explicator. "Sassoon's 'The One-Legged Man': Life through Death and Destruction." Explicator 66.2 (2008): 97-99.

PDF of "Sassoon's 'The One-Legged Man': Life Through Death and Destruction"

The panel "Women in War Literature" will be presented at the 49th Annual M/MLA Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, November 8-11. Panelists include Kent Emerson, Krista Hebel, and Claire Hedrington.

2006-07 Academic Year

Daniel Hardy was awarded a 2006-07 graduate assistantship. The assistantship involves working in the Writing Center, researching for faculty, and managing the Kate Gill library.

Student Representative, Midwestern Region, Sigma Tau Delta 2006-2007; Presenter & Lead Organizer, Regional Conference, Sigma Tau Delta-Midwestern Region, Fall 2006.

Lindsay Heiser was awarded a 2006 graduate assistantship. The assistantship invovles working in the Writing Center, researching various topics for faculty, and serving a member on the Graduate Executive Commitee

Tom Pamperin had his essay "All Right, Then, I'll Go to Hell" published in the New Voices column of the November 2006 English Journal; copyright 2006 by the National Council of Teachers of English. The essay was given an honorable mention in the 2006 Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award--this is an annual contest for previously published work sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Essay posted with permission from the author.

2005-06 Academic Year

Amery Bodelson, with advisor Stacy Thompson presented "Redemptive Restrooms: Moments of Utopia in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 10-13 Nov. 2005. Film II Panel: Utopia & Dystopia.

Midwest/Modern Language Association (M/MLA) Journal accepted her paper, "Redemptive Restrooms: Moments of Utopic Possibility in The Handmaid's Tale," for publication in the Spring 2006 issue.

Jasmine Krotzman was awarded a 2005-06 graduate assistantship. The assistantship involves working in the Writing Center, researching for faculty, managing the Kate Gill library, and serving as a member on the Graduate Executive Committee.

Jed Mortenson was awarded a 2005-06 graduate assistantship. The assistantship involves working in the Writing Center and researching various topics for faculty.

Tom Pamperin was a finalist for the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in poetry awarded by The Madison Review. One of his poems will be appearing in their Spring 2006 issue.

Traci Thomas-Card Student Representative, Midwestern Region, Sigma Tau Delta 2005-2006; Presenter, United Council Women's Leadership Conference, UWEC, Fall 2005; Presenter & Organizer, Sigma Tau Delta Convention, Portland OR, 2006; Lead Organizer, Graduate Conference, UWEC English Festival, 2006; Organizer, Regional Conference, Sigma Tau Delta-Midwestern Region, Fall 2006

Traci also won the 2005-2006 Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

2004-05 Academic Year

Jackie Bailey won the 2004-2005 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Distinguished Thesis Award for "The Hero Must Hang: the Postcolonial Swerve and Re-visioning of Homer's Odyssey in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.”