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Vanessa Cozza, associate professor, English, WSU Tri-Cities; and Sophia Tegart, associate professor, music, received the WSU President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Career-Track Faculty for 2022.
Vanessa Cozza, associate professor, English, WSU Tri-Cities; and Sophia Tegart, associate professor, music, received the WSU President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Career-Track Faculty for 2022.
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni of English regularly present and publish great work—find many of their achievements in the department’s 2021-22 newsletter.
L. Buddy Levy, professor, English, read from his new book, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk at Kenworthy Kenworthy Performing Arts Center in Moscow, Idaho.
R.J. Murphy, doctoral candidate, English, received a Learning Communities Excellence Award from the WSU Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement.
Michael Mays, professor, English, WSU Tri-Cities, co-edited Legacies of the Manhattan Project (WSU Press).
William Hamlin, professor, English, authored Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Press).
Debbie Lee, professor, English, authored Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (OSU Press).
Buddy Levy, scholarly professor, English, won the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity’s 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Award in the Adventure Travel category for his 2019 title, Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition.
Patty Wilde, assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver, received the 2020 CAS Early Career Achievement award.
Kate M. Watts, senior instructor, English, received the WSU Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching.