Graduate Student Fellowships, Awards, Prizes, and Publications

A list of some of the many awards, prizes, and publications English Graduate Students have gotten for the 2021-22 academic year.

2022 Dissertation Prizes

• Carl Bode Prize (for the Best Dissertation on an American Subject): Hillary Roegelein (Ph.D. 2021), “The Art of Unemployment: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Search for Work.” Directed by Bob Levine.
• Alice L. Geyer Dissertation Prize: Lindsey O’Neil (Ph.D., 2021), “Reparative Forms: Poetry and Psychology from the Fin De Siecle to WWI.” Directed by Jason Rudy.  

2022 Essay Prizes

• Kinnaird Essay Prize for PhD Essay: Nat McGartland, “Land-based Feminisms in Australian Women’s Writing.”
• Kinnaird Essay Prize for MA Essay: Daniel Pereira “Piercing the “Zone of Critical Distance”: Collage as a Method of Representing the Willemering Narrative.”

University of Maryland Dissertation Fellowships for 2022-2023

• Wylie Dissertation Fellowships: Jenny Schollaert (ENGL Ph.D.) and Nancy Vera-Spack (CMLT Ph.D.).
• Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship: TBA June 2022

Summer Research Fellowships

• Graduate School Summer Fellowship: Nat McGartland, Dylan Lewis
• Kwiatek Summer Fellowship: Erin Green
• Departmental Summer Fellowships: Frederick Cherry Jr., Tyra Griffin, Da Som Lee, Diana Proenza, and Lexi Walston

Other Awards and Fellowships

• Endowed Summer Fellowship for Archival Work in English Studies: Jenny Schollaert         

MFA Program AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS / AY 2021-2022

• Leigh Ann Ruggerio (2005) won the Juniper 2021 prize for fiction for her novel The Unfollowers, which was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2022. She is a Professor of English at Great Falls College MSU.
• Allison Wyss (MFA, 2012) published a story collection, Splendid Anatomies (2022) with Veliz Books.

ALUMNI BOOK PUBLICATIONS (released in AY 2021-2022)

• Elizabeth Acevedo (MFA, 2015), Inheritance: A Visual Poem (Quill Tree Books, May 2022), illustrated by Andrea Pippins
•  Aaron Brown (MFA, 2015), Call Me Exile (Stephen F. Austin University Press, April 2022) and Less Than You Once Were (Unsolicited Press, April 2022)
• James Hoch (MFA, 2000), Radio Static (Green Linden Press, December 2021) and Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey (Louisiana State University Press, February 2022)
• Tyler Mills (MFA, 2008), City Scattered (Tupelo Press, April 2022)
• Kimberly O’Connor (MFA, 2009), White Lung (Saturnalia Books, October 2021)
• Leigh Ann Ruggiero (MFA, 2007), Unfollowers (University of Massachusetts Press, March 2022)
• Allison Wyss (MFA, 2013), Splendid Anatomies (Veliz Books, March 2022)
• Hananah Zaheer (MFA, 2003), Lovebirds (Bull City Press, October 2021)

ALUMNI BOOK PUBLICATIONS (announced in AY 2021-2022)

• Sara Burnett (MFA, 2012), Seed Celestial, winner of the 2021 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Eileen Myles, forthcoming in Fall 2022
• Zein El-Amine (MFA, 2010), Is This How You Eat a Watermelon, winner of the 2021 Megaphone Prize, forthcoming from Radix Media in November of 2022

Congratulations to everyone for all of these amazing achievements!