2021 Department Awards

Although we were unable to be on campus our annual Student Awards Reception due to COVID-19, we are proud to recognize the outstanding work our students have done this year!

EML faculty, staff, and students gathered online to celebrate success in a very difficult year.

And the awardees are...

EML Student of the Year

Sarah Petras

Outstanding EML Majors

Literary Studies

Sarah Petras

Applied Language Studies

Seo Yeon Lee

English Education

Weichen (Nicole) Peng

Spanish

Lina Alhamoui

Award for Multilingual & International Studies

Lina Alhamoui

Faculty Recognition of Excellence

Dejah Parker

Outstanding Graduate Students

Literary Studies

Connie Schmitz

Rhetoric & Composition

Rachel Jurasevich & Konysha Wade

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Marlene Soto & Norma Garcia

Outstanding Minors

Chinese

Corey Case

German

José De Jesús Zavala

English

Thisuri Fonseka

French

Gracelyn Goodman

Spanish

Yalitza Marin

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Seo Yeon Lee

Writing Studies

Cindy Dice & Yalitza Marin

Ted Pugh Poetry Prize

First Place

Marina Torres, for “Butter Pecan Syrup”

Second Place

Gabriel Murillo, for “Sitting At The Bar”

Scholarship Awardees

Teaching Credential Scholarship

Abraham Orozco

Jeanine L. Fucci Endowment Scholarship

Rebecca G. Devoe & Adriana González

Shana Y. Wang Scholarship

Alexa Quezada & Alexia Limon

EML Department Scholarships

Melinda Rivas, Alexia Valenzuela, Luis Gaytan & Rebecca G. Devoe

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…

Dr. Amàlia Llombart for creating the slides for the ceremony, Dr. Alison Baker for keeping this ship afloat and keeping a steady eye out for land in these stormy seas, and Connie Cuellar & María Rodriguez for everything they do.

Finally, thanks to the Smithsonian National Museum of hte American Indian for making “Wild Horses” by Alfred Morris Momaday/Haun Toa, Kiowa, cir. 1970, available to use.