<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Department of English Awards and Recognitions <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;">2025-2026<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Faculty Award Recipients<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Award for Faculty Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Education (Department of English):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Dr. Traise Yamamoto </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">and<b> Dr. Emma Stapely</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">2025-2026 Outstanding Disability Ally Award (UCR SDRC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Dr. Jennifer Doyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;">English Undergraduate Program Awards <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Undergraduate Essay Award (Department of English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Winning Essay:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Isabella Day, “‘<i>Tender is the Flesh:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Necropolitics and Cannibalism"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Honorable Mention: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Troy Davidson, "The War on Masculinity: Analyzing the Demasculinization of Men in Asian American Literature"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Emory Elliott Memorial Undergraduate Award 2025-2026 (Department of English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Miranda Regalado<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">“Fugitive Evanescence: The Implications of Intangible Freedom in The Narrative of Henry ‘Box’ Brown”</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Graduate Program Awards and Honors Recipients<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Lindon Barrett Black Studies Prize 2025-2026 (Department of English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Emily Elvoid, Department of English, for </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">“A Matter of Time: Disruption of Modernity, Genre, and Archive in Passing Novels"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Emory Elliott Graduate Essay Award </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">2025-2026</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> (Department of English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">K Persinger, for “</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">“Them People Ain’t Human”: Border Cannibals, Blackness, & Tehomophobia in <i>Firefly</i> and <i>Serenity</i>”</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Graduate Essay Awards </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">2025-2026</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> (Department of English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Michelle Jones, first place, for “</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hailed as Disability"</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Sarah Thompson, second place, for “</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Genre as Governance</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">”</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Josie Holland, third place, for “</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Interrupting Aesthetics</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Graduate Community Service Awards 2025-2026 (Department of English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2">Michael Pfirmann-Pugh<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2"><br><b>Emily Mulvihill<o:p></o:p></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2"><br></font><b><font size="2">Jenna Wilson</font><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Dissertation Fellowships (UCR Graduate Division, 2025-2026)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awards 2025-2026:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Amanda Mocsi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Loren Barbour<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Allie Wood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Dissertation Year Fellowship Award 2026-2027:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Liza Wemakor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; 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<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>—<br>James Tobias, Ph.D.<br>Professor,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chair</div><div>Department of English<br>University of California<br>Riverside CA 92521<br>jtobias@ucr.edu<br><br><font size="1">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09<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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