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Spring 2021 Accomplishments
As we are in the middle of the Spring semester, we thought it would be nice to share with you all the accomplishments our department has gone through.
March 24, 2021Honors and Awards

USF’s 6x6 Reading Series a Virtual Success
In pre-pandemic times, the hallmark of USF’s 6x6 Reading Series was the bustling energy, coffee aroma, and voices of great writers filling Felicitous on 42nd. This year, 6x6 carried on the tradition remotely, hosting the event on Microsoft Teams.
March 19, 2021Events

Fall 2020 Accomplishments
With Fall term coming to an end, we would like to share our faculty and staff accomplishments from this semester.
December 17, 2020Honors and Awards

A Record 19 ԹϱFaculty Recognized With Outstanding Research Achievements Awards
Nineteen Թϱ faculty members whose research set standards in a wide array of disciplines are the new recipients of the university’s 2020 Outstanding Research Achievement Award.
October 20, 2020Honors and Awards

Spring & Summer 2020 English Department Accomplishments
Even while we're in the Fall semester, we would like to go back and share what our faculty and students have accomplished the past two semesters.
September 22, 2020Honors and Awards

Poetry Student Published in Anthology
Undergraduate student writer Deborah Locicero recently published one of her many successful poems from this course, her ode, in poetry anthology “Florida Bards: Gulf Coast Poets, Pinellas County.” We interviewed Locicero about her experience.
August 20, 2020Publications

Undergraduate Student Published in Professor Grewal’s Class
Թϱundergraduate student Karen Gonzalez-Videla’s first publication, “A Catalog of the Events After I Boarded a Plane in Buenos Aires, Argentina,” appeared in Sidereal Magazine’s sixth issue.
July 17, 2020Publications

ԹϱAlumna Jaquiradíaz Wins Prestigious Whiting Award in Nonfiction
Թϱ Department of English alumna Jaquira Díaz is winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Nonfiction for her memoir Ordinary Girls. Diaz earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from USF.
June 19, 2020Honors and Awards

ԹϱEnglish Professor Lisa Melonçon Won 2019 Best New Journal Award
“The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine,” founded and co-edited by ԹϱEnglish Professor Lisa Melonçon, has won the 2019 Best New Journal award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
February 27, 2020Honors and Awards

English Professor Wins Research Impact Award
Թϱ Professor Meredith Johnson has won the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award for her book “Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation.”
February 25, 2020Honors and Awards

ԹϱEnglish Undergrad Makes Finals in Fems Slam Poetry Tournament
Թϱ English undergraduate Sara Hammami made the finals in the Solo Poets category of the Feminine Empowerment Movement’s Slam (FEMS) Poetry Tournament. For this article, we asked Hammami what it’s like to compete in the FEMS tournament.
December 18, 2019Department News

Fall 2019 English Department Accomplishments
As another semester has come and gone, we would like to share the achievements our faculty and students have accomplished through this Fall term.
December 16, 2019Honors and Awards