Faculty Awards and Accomplishments

The Department of English congratulates:

2022-23:

  • Dr. Albert Rivero on receiving a 2023 University Teaching Excellence Award.
  • Dr. Lilly Campbell on receiving the 2023 Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Award.
  • Dr. Samantha Majhor on receiving a Mellon Grant to create a digital Storymap of Dakota homelands. 
  • Dr. Sarah Wadsworth on receiving a 2023 President's Challenge Grant for "Changing the Story: The Story Fellow Program."
  • Dr. Gerry Canavan, Dr. Jodi Melamed, and Dr. Amelia Zurcher on their promotions to Professor (effective Fall 2023).
  • Dr. Tyler Farrell, Dr. Paul Gagliardi, and Dr. Jacob Riyeff on their promotion to Teaching Associate Professor and Dr. Jenna Green on her promotion to Teaching Assistant Professor (effective Fall 2023).

2021-22:

  • Dr. Lilly Campbell, Dr. Jason Farr, and Dr. Elizaveta Strakhov on their promotions to Associate Professor with tenure (effective Fall 2022).
  • Dr. Gerry Canavan, recipient of a 2022 University Teaching Excellence Award.

2020-2021:

  • Dr. Cedric Burrows and Dr. B. Pladek on their promotions to Associate Professor with tenure, and Dr. Leah Flack on her promotion to Professor (effective Fall 2021).
  • Dr. Sarah Wadsworth, who was named Director of Marquette University Press.
  • Prof. C.J. Hribal, recipient of a 2021 University Teaching Excellence Award.
  • Dr. Jason Farr, recipient of a 2021 Way Klingler Early Career Award and a Newberry Fellowship.
  • Dr. Cedric Burrows and Dr. Lilly Campbell, who were named Difference Makers during President Michael Lovell's February 2021 address.
  • Dr. Lilly Campbell, who received a National Science Foundation Discovery Award with Co-Principal Investigators Shion Guha (Computer Science) and Amrita George (Management).

2019-2020:

  • Dr. Elizabeth Angeli on her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, and Dr. Heather Hathaway and Dr. Rebecca Nowacek on their promotions to Professor (effective Fall 2020).
  • Dr. Cedric Burrows, who received the 2020 Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Award from Marquette University.
  • Dr. Jodi Melamed, who received a 2020 Teaching Excellence Award from Marquette University.
  • Dr. Melissa Ganz, who received a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University for 2020-21 (deferred to 2021-22 due to the pandemic).
  • Dr. Sarah Wadsworth, who received a 2020 Interdisciplinary Summer Pilot Grant from Marquette's Institute for Women's Leadership.
  • Dr. Elizabeth Angeli, recipient of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication for Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace (Routledge, 2019).
  • Dr. Cedric Burrows, who discussed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy on WUWM-FM (89.7) on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20, 2020.
  • Dr. Jodi Melamed, winner of the 2019-2020 University Sabbatical Fellowship Award.

  2018-19:

  • Dr. Lilly Campbell, recipient of the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies for “Simulation Genres and Student Uptakes: The Patient Health Record in Clinical Nursing Simulations,” which appeared in Written Communication (2017).
  • Dr. Melissa Ganz, recipient of the 2018 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies for Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment, published by the University of Virginia Press.

  • Prof. C.J. Hribal, who won the 2017 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review for his story “Do I Look Sick to You? (Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient).” The story also won a Puschart Prize for Fiction and appeared in the 2019 Pushcart Prize anthology.