Abdul Aijaz won a College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) Research Fellowship.

janan alexandra won the Dennis Organ Memorial Award in Poetry (2nd place), the Holl Merit Award in Poetry, a Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Arabic Fellowship, and a Leonard A. Slade Jr. Poetry Fellowship, and presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. She published in Muzzle, The Rumpus, Poiesis, Cosmonauts Avenue, Foothill Poetry Journal, and Ploughshares.

Richard Allberry won the Mary Gaither Essay Award in British Literature and presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference and at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference. He is currently Managing Editor at Victorian Studies.

Abby Ang was selected to represent IU at the National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency.

Austin Araujo won the Vera Meyer Strube Academy of American Poets Award.

Sami Atassi won the Susan D. Gubar Summer Dissertation Fellowship and a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship from the Islamic Studies Program.

Trevor Babcock was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Williams Baptist University.

Brianna Barnes won the Ross Lockridge, Jr. Award in Creative Writing and the Earle J. S. Ho Award for the teaching of Creative Writing.

Brianna Best won the Culbertson Teaching Award and the Susan D. Gubar Graduate Research Travel Award.

Collin Bjork won the Culbertson Dissertation Fellowship and was appointed Assistant Professor at Massey University, New Zealand.

Jon Booth was hired by the Arts + Events space in Chicago.

Rory Booth won a Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship.

Mary Bowden was appointed Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware.

John Brooks was appointed a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University in Atlanta.

Kelsey Butler won a David H. Dickason American Literature Essay Award.

Bronwen Carlisle presented at the Ohio State Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Symposium.

Julie Chamberlin won a College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) Graduate Travel Grant.

Luke Chambers published an article in Tolkien Studies.

Mike Chambers won the English Department Fellowship in British Literature and/or Culture and a Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship and presented at the MLA conference. He defended his dissertation, Unknowable Realism, 1860-1900: Realism Beyond Herbert Spencer’s Limits to Knowledge, and was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI.

Joanna Chromik received the Virginia Gunderson Essay Award in Rhetoric.

Laura Clapper won a Culbertson Teaching Award.

Adam Coombs was appointed to teach at Walden School in Louisville, KY.

Soleil Davíd won the Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Award, the Georgina Joshi Composition Commission Award, and an honorable mention for the Matias L. Ochoada Fellowship. She published in Arkansas International, MARY, and Sinking City. She presented at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, and at the American Literary Translators Association Conference.

Noah Davis won the 2019 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, the Outdoor Writers Association of America Bodie McDowell Scholarship, and a Chapter Career Award from the National Society of Arts & Letters and presented at the Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. He published poetry in the Best New Poets 2019 anthology, About Place Journal, Orion, and Sou’wester.

Christie Debelius won a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a Culbertson Teaching Award, and a Literature/Film Association Conference Travel Grant and presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference and at the Literature/Film Association. She co-organized the annual IU GSAC Conference and is Assistant Managing Editor at Victorian Studies.

Samantha Demmerle won the Albert Wertheim Dissertation Fellowship in Drama and Performance Studies.

Derek DiMatteo co-edited Trustees and Officers of Indiana University, Volume III: 1982–2018. He presented at symposia at the IU Center for the Study of Global Change and the IU American Studies Department and moderated a panel at The World(s) of John Wick Conference at IU. He defended his dissertation, Academic Dissent: US Higher Education Protest Literature, 1985–2015.

Zachary Engledow presented at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium.

Tim Etzkorn won a Culbertson First-Year Teachers of Composition Award.

Michelle Finkler won a Writing Residency at Art Farm Nebraska and the IU Writer in South Asia fellowship and published in Joyland Magazine.

Sarah Fischer won the Culbertson Composition Portfolio Award and presented at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.

Daniel Fladager won the Susan D. Gubar Summer Dissertation Fellowship and the Guy Lemmon Award in Public Writing, was a Kovener Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion, was accepted to the Manchester University Graduate Student Exchange, and presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. 

Chelsey Moler Ford won a fellowship from the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Russell Noyes Essay Award in Romantic Studies and co-organized the annual IU GSAC Conference.

Cameron Forrest won the Lois Davidson Ellis Graduate Fellowship.

Jessica George published in Lady Science. She defended her dissertation, Tracing the South: Environment, Materiality, and Region in American Literature, 1790-1861, and was appointed Academic Services Program Coordinator for the Pre-Collegiate Development Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Sabrina Ghaus won the Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Award.

Tess Given was accepted to present on a round table on queer pedagogy at the University of North Carolina’s 2020 Queer Studies Conference and published a review in Antipode.

Savannah Hall won a Culbertson Teaching Award and was appointed Lecturer (3-year term) at IU’s Kelley School of Business.

Lauren Harrison won the Guy Lemmon Award in Public Writing, an IU Graduate Scholars Fellowship, and the Writer in South Asia Fellowship. She attended the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference and read at the Center for Rural Engagement, at the Indiana Review’s Cider Fest, and for the Bloomington Black Arts Coalition. She published in Tin House Online.

Zoë Henry won the Russell Noyes Essay Award in Romantic Studies, a Culbertson Composition Portfolio Award, the Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship, and a COAS Graduate Travel Award. She presented at the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference.

Milo Hicks won a Culbertson First-Year Teachers of Composition Award.

Ben Hiskes won the Mary Gaither Essay Award in British literature and the Russell Noyes Essay Award in Romantic Studies and published an article in PLOS ONE (a Public Library of Science journal).

Joe Hohman won the Ross Lockridge Jr. Award in Creative Writing.

Stephen Hopkins was appointed Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Florida.

Meredith Irvin won a COAS Graduate Travel Award and the Earl J.S. Ho Award for teaching Creative Writing.

Jennifer Warfel Juskiewicz won STEMTeach Grants, presented at the Futures of Rhetoric and Composition Symposium, was the Graduate Student Standing Group Workshop Facilitator at the CCCC Conference, and presented at the MLA Convention. She published in Teaching Theology & Religion and Rhetorical Machines. She was appointed Writing Program Administrator & Writing Center Director (5-year renewable) at St. Mary’s College.

Aaron Kessler won the Sanders-Weber Fellowship.

Patrick Kindig won the David H. Dickason Dissertation Chapter Award in American Literature, the James A. Work Prize, and the Robbins Prize for the best graduate student in American literature. He is a finalist for the Harvard Society of Fellows. He defended his dissertation, Fascination: Irrationalism and American Antimodernism.

JiHae Koo won the James A. Work Prize, the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Parker Prize for the top student studying British Literature, the Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship, and COAS and CAHI Graduate Travel Awards.

Stephanie Kung won a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a Lawlis-Duchovnay Travel Award, was nominated for the Future of American Studies Institute, organized a panel for the MLA conference, and received a CAHI travel grant.

Sarah Bich Le won the Sanders-Weber Fellowship and the Albert Wertheim Dissertation Year Fellowship and presented and co-organized a panel at the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference. She was accepted into the research methods workshop at the Newberry Library. 

Mi Jeong Lee won an English Department Summer Fellowship and a COAS Graduate Travel Award. She defended her dissertation, World Form and the Aesthetics of Distance in the Modernist Novel.

Sarah Line won the Carl H. Ziegler Teaching Award from the Collins Living Learning Center and the Culbertson Teaching Award.

Anni Liu attended the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference.

Jennifer Lopatin won a Susan D. Gubar Graduate Research Travel Award.

Sara Loy taught at the Kentucky Governors’ Scholars Program and is currently Book Review Editor at Victorian Studies.

Peyton Lunzer won the Virginia La Follette Gunderson Rhetoric Award.

Elizabeth (Izzy) Maffetone won the Lieber Memorial Teaching Award and a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, led a workshop at St. Mary’s College, and co-organized a panel for the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. She was selected to represent IU at the National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency.

Caitlin Mahaffy won the Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship, published in The Ben Jonson Journal, and presented at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference and at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference.

T. J. Martinson won a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, an English Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, and a Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship, published his first novel, and published in Configurations. 

David McAvoy was appointed Global Learning Coordinator at Miami University of Ohio. 

Rachel McCabe won a Culbertson Teaching Award and was appointed Assistant Professor and Director of Writing in English at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Caroline McCaulay won a Culbertson Writing Pedagogy Fellowship and a fellowship from the Center for Rural Engagement.

Megan McCool presented at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.

Trevor McMichael won the William Riley Parker Prize in British Literature, the Russell Noyes Dissertation Chapter Award in Romantic Studies, and a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He presented at the Dickens Universe Conference, the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, and the NASSR Conference. He published an article in European Romantic Review.

Jason Michálek won Culbertson travel funds and a Garden Volunteer of the Year Award from Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard and presented at the IU Graduate Conference, the Computers and Writing Conference and Research Network Forum, and the Coalition for Community Writing Conference.

Sean Mier presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference and at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference.

Joseph Morgan co-organized a panel for the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium.

Lindsay Munnelly was appointed Chief of Staff for the Office of the President of Oxford University Press in New York.

Steven Nathaniel won the J. A. Robbins Memorial Prize, the Susan D. Gubar Summer Dissertation Fellowship, and fellowships to attend the T.S. Eliot International Summer School in London.

James Neisen won the Karma Lochrie Summer Research and Travel Award.

Brian O’Connor was appointed English Instructional Consultant at IU’s Advance College Project.

Brooke Opel presented at the American Literature Association Conference and completed her three-year term as MLA Graduate Student Delegate for the Great Lakes Region (an elected position).

Becky Ottman won the Culbertson Teaching Award.

Sarah Parijs won the Culbertson Composition Portfolio Award.

Bianca Perez-Cancino won the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship and the English Graduate Student Summer Fellowship. She presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, the Dickens Universe Winter Conference, and the Society for Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Conference. She was Diversity Fellow at the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference.

Gionni Poncé won the Earle J. S. Ho Award for the teaching of Creative Writing and Honorable Mention for the Ross Lockridge, Jr. Award in Creative Writing and was appointed to the Office of the Provost at Arizona State University.

Matthew Robinson was nominated for the Composition First-Year Teaching Award and won the David H. Dickason Essay Award in American Literature, a Daghlian Goudie Graduate Fellowship, and a Summer Language Workshop Scholarship.

Laura Rosche won the paper prize for the IU GSAC conference and the Culbertson Teaching Award and presented at the IU Graduate Conference and at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Nathan Schmidt won the David H. Dickason Essay Award in American Literature and the Susan D. Gubar Summer Fellowship and attended the Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities.

Sarah Schmitt presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association conference.

Anushka Sen won the Susan D. Gubar Graduate Research Travel Award and a COAS Graduate Travel Grant and presented at the Beastly Modernisms conference and the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference. 

Katie Shy won the Mary Gaither Essay Award in British literature.

Wendy Lee Spacek won honorable mention for the Vera Meyer Strube Academy of American Poets Award, a Bread Loaf Fellowship, and graduate travel awards from COAS, CAHI, the Carnegie Fund in English, and GPSG, and attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Whitney Sperrazza was appointed Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester NY.

Cody St. Clair won the Susan D. Gubar Dissertation Fellowship in American Literature and/or Culture.

Ellen Stenstrom won the Eugene O’Neill Society Graduate Student Competition and the Eugene O’Neill Society/Fred Wilkins Travel Grant.

Kortney Stern presented at the 18^th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies and was selected for the Graduate Academic Fairness Committee in IU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Heidi Støa was appointed Associate Professor of English at Volda University College, Norway.

Alberto Sveum attended the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference.

Sam Tett won a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the Mary Gaither Dissertation Chapter Award in British Literature, the Patrick Brantlinger Fellowship in Victorian Literature and Culture, the English Graduate Summer Fellowship, and a Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship.

Gregory Tolliver won the Culbertson Composition Portfolio Award.

Mary Borgo Ton was keynote speaker at the Center for Urban History, University of Antwerp, presented at IU’s The World(s) of John Wick Conference, and published in Early Popular Visual Culture. She defended her dissertation, Shining Lights: Magic Lanterns and the Missionary Movement, 1839-1868, and was appointed CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in IU’s Digital Collection Services.

Colby Townsend won the 2020 Best Thesis Award from the Mormon History Association and published articles in Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies, Journal of Mormon History, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

Mary Helen Truglia won a Culbertson Teaching Award and a Karma Lochrie Summer Fellowship. She presented at the Renaissance Society of America Conference, the Shakespeare Association of America Conference, the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, the South Central MLA Conference, and MMLA, and was an invited speaker for the Jane Austen Society of North America.

Laura Tscherry won the Susan D. Gubar Summer Fellowship, the Susan Gubar Pre-Exam Fellowship, and 1st place for the 2020 Brantlinger-Naremore Prize, presented at the UCLA English Southland Conference, and created and ran the Ulysses Reading Group.

Emer Vaughn published a review in Nineteenth-Century Prose, was selected for the Big Ten English Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, and presented at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

Megan Vinson won the Lawlis-Duchovnay Travel Award.

Usha Vishnuvajjala was appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia.

John Walters was appointed Permanent Lecturer at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Rose Wehrenberg won the Kraft-Kinsey Award, published poetry in The Ocean State Review, organized a reading at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, and gave readings at Carmichael’s Bookstore, Ardent Instruments, Room Project, Two Dollar Radio, and Irvington Vinyl & Books.

Denise Weisz published an article in Resources for American Literary Study.

Jenna Wengler won the Culbertson Composition Portfolio Award.

El Williams III won the Cave Canem Scholarship to attend Community of Writers and the Tin House Summer Workshop Scholarship. He published in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, and River Styx.

Miranda Wojciechowski won the English Graduate Summer Fellowship and the Patrick Brantlinger Fellowship in Victorian Studies. She presented at the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Conference and at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference and was accepted as the Project Management intern at Indiana University Press.

Amanda Zoch was appointed ACLS Public Fellow, as Legislative Policy Specialist at the National Conference of State Legislatures.