By Richard Milby
As winner of a 2020 Jefferson Fellowship, third year PhD student Cherrie Kwok might give you the impression that the award honors a small army of professors, colleagues, and close friends, rather than one exceptional graduate student in English.
"In the Time of Corona: The Solace of Art, Music and Literature in Dark Days"
Samuel Lemley is the sole winner of the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award in the Arts and Humanities, among the highest honors that a graduate student can earn in recognition of their dedication to teaching at the University of Virginia.
The winner of the 2020 Henfield Prize, given to a creative writer in our graduate program for an excellent work of fiction is third-year poetry MFA student Aimee Seu for her story “Continued Existence.” The judge for this year’s award is the distinguished writer Dinaw Mengestu.
English Major Kristen Barrett earns Marshall Scholarship
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Please see the full announcement on the Poetry Society of America's website, here.
Cynthia Wall, William R. Kenan, Jr.
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Monday, September 16th
Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity (2022) by Simón Ventura Trujillo (Professor Trujillo will be joining us via zoom in the Faculty Lounge at 5:30 pm). Please email Carmen Lamas at cel5x@virginia.edu for the excerpted reading.
Tuesday, September 17th
Friday, September 27th
Alli Dyer will be reading from her debut novel, Strange Folk, and Guion Pratt will be performing an acoustic set of his music.
Monday, September 30th
Constituting Central American Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (2018) by Maritza E. Cárdenas (Professor Cárdenas will be joining us via zoom in the Faculty Lounge at 5:30 pm). Please email Carmen Lamas at cel5x@virginia.edu for the excerpted reading.
Saturday, October 5th
