Kudos for our Students

• First-year MA student Daniel White received the Gwin Scholarship.
• Freshman English major Meredith Loftin received the George B. Nutt Scholarship.
• Freshman Mary Jo Williams was awarded the Helen W. Skelton Scholarship.
• MA students Leslie Adams, David Johnson, Ryan Henderson, and Ed Dechert won the Eugene Butler Creative Writing Award.
• BA graduate Jason Burge has enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Wyoming.
• Advanced major Dorothy Kathryn Ward received the Peyton Ward Williams Distinguished Writing Award. Kathy also won an honorable mention in the Gender Studies Paper Competition for “The Consequences of Masculinity in Christina Reid’s Tea in a China Cup.”
• Allison Barrett and Dorothy Kathryn Ward were inducted into The Society of Scholars.
• Annie Falor and Sarah Webb won the Lewis and Betty Noland Book Award.
• The following students received awards at the Southern Literary Festival: Elizabeth Harmon, third place in formal essay competition, for “Subverting the Ancient Epic: Democracy, Equality, and Fluidity in ‘Song of Myself’; Marla Smith, first place in short story competition, for “The Tie that Binds”; Walker Moller, third place in short story competition, for “Clearing Fences”; Chance Parish, first place in poetry competition, for “The Bust of Nefertiti.”
• Sixteen students received TESOL Certificates last spring: Shirley Bailey, Anna Debicka-Dyer, Li-Ching Hung, Marian Ingram, Seongmi Jeon, Sohyung Kim, Soonyoung Kim, Courtney Knop, Byl Koo, Minryung Lee, Chun Fu Lin, Emily Parrish, Tinukwa Okojie-Boulder, Jaime Thomas, Janice Williams, Ann del Rocio Sales Obando.
• Kellye Freeman Makamson, MA 2004, works in St. Louis as chief editor for a pharmaceutical company.
• Elizabeth Harmon, BA 2005, pursues her MA/PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she has received a teaching assistantship which also includes a $10,000/year stipend.
• Kelly Drake, MA 2004, teaches English Communication, Global Studies, and Public Communication at Meisei University in Tokyo.
• Heidi Bragg Hickman earned her MS in counseling at Texas Tech.
• Deadric Williams earned his MA in sociology at MSU.
• 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 at Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Georgia. Lisa Lishman, MA, also teaches at Abraham Baldwin.
• Avery Carlisle has completed her year-long program in Shakespeare and Theatre at the University of Birmingham, UK.
• Jeannie Waller earned her master’s 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 her MA 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, where she has recently been named Director of Composition.
• Our Xi Kappa chapter of the English honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, has inducted eight new members. Led by president Angela Fowler and by advisor Dr. Brad Vice, STD has continued donating books to Starkville Public Library and raising funds for The Boys and Girls Club. To build those funds, STD also plans to perform another play by Dr. Rich Wolf.