Kudos for our Students

• First-year MA students Angela Adair Fowler and Amy Myrick received the Gwin Scholarship for 2005.
• Freshman English major Tyler Trimm received the George B. Nutt Scholarship.
• MA student Brennan Rutledge won the William H. Magruder Scholarship.
• Freshman Matthew Clark was awarded the Helen W. Skelton Scholarship.
• MA students Angela Adair Fowler, Alicia Aiken, Emily Stinson, and Ed Dechert won the Eugene Butler Creative Writing Award.
• Advanced English majors Ashley Young and Shoshana Brackett won the Brasher/Dazey Award for advanced composition.
• Advanced major Virginia Rogers received the Peyton Ward Williams Distinguished Writing Award.
• Helen Crump, MA, is pursuing her PhD in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota, where she also minors in African American and African studies.
• Andrea Porter, MA, received her PhD in English from the University of Alabama; she has also taken a teaching position in Jacksonville.
• Billy Reynolds, MA, earned his PhD in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and currently teaches in Tipton, Georgia.
• Avery Carlisle has begun her year-long program in Shakespeare and Theatre at the University of Birmingham, UK.
• Jeannie Waller has begun her master’s program in journalism at the University of Mississippi.
• Angela Taylor is lab manager for an engineering/construction consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio.
• Sarah Banks, having completed the master’s program in English at Mississippi College, has entered the doctoral program in English at Texas Tech.
• Caroline Eaton earned an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and currently edits Proud magazine in Memphis.
• Jennifer Madden has completed the Master of Information Studies degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Marquita Turner has begun the master’s program in Physical Education at MSU.
• Kim Carlisle has accepted a position teaching at New Albany High School in New Albany, Mississippi.
• Katy Walters Brink has accepted a position as assistant youth director at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Tennessee.
• Emily Chapman has begun the master’s program in sociology at MSU.
• Jason Kelly has begun the master’s program in history at MSU.
• Brennan Rutledge published a lengthy bibliography on poet-critic William Harmon for Pembroke Magazine.
• Eric Smith, MA 2000, earned his PhD from the University of Florida in 2004. Now teaching in Alabama, he has published widely on James Joyce and Robert Antoni.
• Hope White, MA, earned her PhD at the University of Alabama and has begun work as an assistant professor at Auburn-Montgomery.

Our Xi Kappa chapter of the English honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, has won the national STD Service Award for 2005. Led by president Alicia Aikens and by advisor Dr. Brad Vice, STD won this prize for donating 76 books to Starkville Public Library as well as $200 to The Boys and Girls Club. STD also honors Dr. Rich Wolf, whose play A Kind of Beowulf helped to raise the money for the donation.