<div><p style="font-size:50px;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">🎉</p><p style="margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:0">Elaine Chacon reacted via <a href="https://www.google.com/gmail/about/?utm_source=gmail-in-product&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=emojireactionemail#app">Gmail</a></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM James Tobias <<a href="mailto:jtobias@ucr.edu">jtobias@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Dear English Majors,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Continuing on with the good news:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in">The 2025-2026 winner of the English Department’s Emory Elliott Memorial Undergraduate Award is …. (drum roll)...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Helvetica">Miranda Regalado, for their essay </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">“Fugitive Evanescence: The Implications of Intangible Freedom in The Narrative of Henry ‘Box’ Brown”.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Congratulations, Miranda!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Please follow up with Elaine Chacón so we can issue you the award funds.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Take care, everyone!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">jt</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></b></p><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;line-break:after-white-space"><div>—<br>James Tobias, Ph.D.<br>Professor,<span> </span>Chair</div><div>Department of English<br>University of California<br>Riverside CA 92521<br><a href="mailto:jtobias@ucr.edu" target="_blank">jtobias@ucr.edu</a><br><br><font size="1"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09</a><br><br>"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."</font><br><br></div></div></div>
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