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Nora Kilcup - Ball Hiscoe Award Recipient

Jan 26, 2026

Carol Annette Ball Hiscoe Award

The Department of English is pleased to announce the creation of the Carol Annette Ball Hiscoe Graduate Award, a new annual award supporting master’s students whose academic goals reflect perseverance, commitment, and a passion for English Studies. Established by Carol Annette Ball Hiscoe’s family, the award honors her legacy as a scholar and educator. The award…
Lily Sotebier posing with winning SIGDOC research poster

Nov 25, 2025

Lily Soetebier Wins SIGDOC Research Competition

Lily Soetebier (MSTC) recently took first place in the graduate division of the ACM SIGDOC Student Research Competition. Lily’s project, “Data After Dobbs: A Verbal Data Case Study of Flo’s Privacy Policies” emerged as a winner after a two-stage competition that included a poster presentation and a formal conference presentation. Lily summarizes the project in…
Headshot of Skyla Carmon (MFA 2025)

Oct 31, 2025

Skyla Carmon – Hurston/Wright Foundation Finalist

Skyla Carmon (MFA, 2025) was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in the “College Award” category for her MFA Thesis, “Tapped.” In her artist’s statement, Skyla describes “Tapped” as “a project that seeks to capture intersectional and mundane complexities of college life at a fictional elite university through an intimate lens of the…
Laura Severin posing with a tuft of grass at exhibit in Orkney

Sep 30, 2025

Locating the Art of Orkney’s Grasses

Dr. Laura Severin recently returned from a research trip to Orkney and offered this account of the experience. “The grass is a warm freend”      “This past September I journeyed to the Orkney Islands, north of the mainland of Scotland, to view Scottish poet Valerie Gillies and Scottish photographer Rebecca Marr’s art installation Buss o…
Image of Beatrice Ogeh, MFA student in Fiction.

Aug 8, 2025

Beatrice Ogeh Wins Award

Beatrice Ogeh (MFA – Fiction) is the 2025 winner of the MN BIPOC Emerging Writer Award in Flash Fiction for her story “at this ungodly hour.” The story is published in the Blue Earth Review, a literary magazine run by graduate students of the Creative Writing program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. About the story…

May 22, 2025

“It’s a Rap”

Dr. Jeff Mielke is the director of the phonetics lab at North Carolina State University; the lab is a small room tucked between two classrooms on the bottom floor of Tompkins Hall with multiple recording booths, one outfitted with equipment to perform an ultrasound on the human tongue.  Preserving endangered languages The ultrasounds are used…