[English-undergrad] [Englishfaculty] Announcement: Department of English 2025-2026 Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate Award Recipients

Mon Jun 15 08:57:10 PDT 2026

Adding my congratulations to Vorris', and extending them to one and all!
What a talented bunch!

All the best,
Susan

Susan Zieger (she/they)
Professor of English
University of California, Riverside - Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño and Serrano
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 8:15 AM Vorris Nunley via Englishfaculty <
englishfaculty at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Congratulations Emma and Traise! Well deserved🎉🎉
> Vorris
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 14, 2026, at 7:05 PM, James Tobias via Englishfaculty <
> englishfaculty at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I hope this finds you well.
>
> As the academic year winds up, I’m thrilled to recognize our English
> Department faculty, graduate, and undergraduate award recipients for
> 2025-2026.
>
> This year’s award roster ranges from campus awards recognizing faculty
> disability allies to essay awards at graduate and undergraduate levels,
> Graduate Service Awards, Lindon Barrett Memorial and Emory Elliott Memorial
> awards, Outstanding TA of the Year,  and a host of dissertation fellowship
> awards funded by Graduate Division. I want to take a moment to recognize
> how well our graduate program is represented here, in the innovative
> research and service highlighted in the awards roster. Overall, this is an
> impressive collection of honors and awards, representing the excellent work
> in research, teaching, and service going on in the Department.
>
> Congratulations to all of the awards winners: we’re so proud of your work.
>
> I am especially grateful to the donors who make the Lindon Barrett
> Memorial, the Emory Elliott Memorial, and the Graduate Service Awards
> possible, and of course, to our English Department support staff who keep
> us going quarter to quarter, year to year.
>
> Winners have been notified separately; for this general announcement, I’ve
> attached the formal award notice including prize descriptions and
> information about awards and recipients. (I’ve also attached the list of
> award recipients provided below in a separate attachment for ease of use in
> social media posting, etc.)
>
> The list of award recipients follows, but please do open and read the
> attachment for all the details - and feel free to congratulate the winners!
>
> Congratulations, award winners, and warm thanks again to all of the
> faculty, staff, and donors who make this possible. We’re deeply grateful.
>
> Take care, all,
>
> With gratitude,
>
> Jim
>
> <EnglishDepartmentAwards2025-2026.pdf>
> <EnglishAwards_2025-2026_List.pdf>
>
> *Department of English Awards and Recognitions *
>
> *2025-2026*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Faculty Award Recipients*
>
>
>
> *Award for Faculty Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Education
> (Department of English):*
>
>
>
> *Dr. Traise Yamamoto *and* Dr. Emma Stapely*
>
>
>
>
> *2025-2026 Outstanding Disability Ally Award (UCR SDRC)*
>
>
> *Dr. Jennifer Doyle*
>
>
>
>
>
> *English Undergraduate Program Awards *
>
>
>
> *Undergraduate Essay Award (Department of English)*
>
>
>
> *Winning Essay:*
>
>
>
> *Isabella Day, “‘Tender is the Flesh: Necropolitics and Cannibalism"*
>
>
>
>
> *Honorable Mention: *
>
>
>
> *Troy Davidson, "The War on Masculinity: Analyzing the Demasculinization
> of Men in Asian American Literature"*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Emory Elliott Memorial Undergraduate Award 2025-2026 (Department of
> English)*
>
>
>
> *Miranda Regalado*
>
> *“Fugitive Evanescence: The Implications of Intangible Freedom in The
> Narrative of Henry ‘Box’ Brown”*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Graduate Program Awards and Honors Recipients*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Lindon Barrett Black Studies Prize 2025-2026 (Department of English)*
>
>
>
> *Emily Elvoid, Department of English, for **“A Matter of Time: Disruption
> of Modernity, Genre, and Archive in Passing Novels"*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Emory Elliott Graduate Essay Award **2025-2026** (Department of English)*
>
>
>
> *K Persinger, for “**“Them People Ain’t Human”: Border Cannibals,
> Blackness, & Tehomophobia in Firefly and Serenity”*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Graduate Essay Awards **2025-2026** (Department of English)*
>
>
>
>
> *Michelle Jones, first place, for “**Hailed as Disability"*
>
>
>
>
> *Sarah Thompson, second place, for “**Genre as Governance**”*
>
>
>
>
> *Josie Holland, third place, for “**Interrupting Aesthetics**” *
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Graduate Community Service Awards 2025-2026 (Department of English)*
>
>
>
> *Michael Pfirmann-Pugh*
>
>
> *Emily Mulvihill*
>
>
> *Jenna Wilson*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Dissertation Fellowships (UCR Graduate Division, 2025-2026)*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awards 2025-2026:*
>
>
>
> *Amanda Mocsi*
>
>
>
> *Loren Barbour*
>
>
>
> *Allie Wood*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Dissertation Year Fellowship Award 2026-2027:*
>
>
>
> *Liza Wemakor*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2025-2026 (Department of English)*
>
>
>
> *Emily Elvoid*
>
>
> —
> James Tobias, Ph.D.
> Professor, Chair
> Department of English
> University of California
> Riverside CA 92521
> jtobias at ucr.edu
>
> https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09
>
> "We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize
> our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land,
> water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all
> of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today
> this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over
> the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful
> to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands."
>
>
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