2023 Department Reception

English & Modern Languages faculty and staff gathered on Thursday, April 20, with students, their families, and friends to recognize the outstanding work our students have done this year!

EML Student of the Year

Karly Hovsepian

Outstanding EML Majors

Applied Language Studies

Zeina Baba

English Education

Alicia Chhuon

Literary Studies

Vevina-Anne Swanson

Spanish

Jennifer Reyes

Faculty Recognition of Undergraduate Excellence

English

Eliana Rodriguez

Spanish

Krystal Aguinaldo

Outstanding Graduate Students

Literary Studies

Karly Hovsepian

Rhetoric & Composition

Sabrea Sparrow

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Sue-Jin Lee­

Faculty Recognition of Graduate Excellence

Sara Ruiz Hirata

Outstanding Minors

Chinese

Karina Jimenez

English

Madison-Taylor Fortich

French

Samuel Barrera

Spanish

Garrett Hock

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Aimee Perez

Writing Studies

Lorenzo “Enzo” Cabrera

Ted Pugh Poetry Award

Natalie Wiggins, “A Moment’s Pleasure”

Scholarship Awardees

Shana Y. Wang Scholarship

Stacie Gines & Nuoyan Li

Jeanine L. Fucci Endowment Scholarship

Alison Banks, Angelina Mason & Kenneth Williams

Lilian Wilds Shakespeare Scholarship

Mellow Toms

EML Department Scholarships

Vanesa Garcia & Samantha Vivanco

Congratulations to…

every awardee and graduate – you did it! We are so proud of you. We look forward to seeing continuing students in the Fall.

Thanks to…

Connie Cuellar & María Rodriguez for everything they do.

This image at the top of this page is The Trojan Horse, one of eleven plates by the Master of the Aeneid Enameller cir. 1530, Louvre Museum.