Crystal Matey is the recipient of the English Department's 2018 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.

Our two nominees for the University Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis awards were Lilit Berberyan and Kristin Yates.

Amy Vines was recently elected to a 5-year term on the MLA Forum for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies: Medieval.  

Jennifer Park's article "Discandying Cleopatra: Preserving Cleopatra's Infinite Variety in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra" (Studies in Philology, 2016)  has been awarded honorable mention in the category of best article in the field of early modern women and gender.

UNCG English has four attending the 2017-18 Folger Institute Consortium, making this a banner year for our membership; Lecturer Matt Carter (2nd acceptance) joins Graduate Student Crystal Matey, Lecturer Lauren Shook (herself a Folger "Two-fer"), and Assistant Professor Jennifer Park.