Awards & Appointments

Erica Plouffe Lazure's short story collection Cadence and Other Stories is one of 12 finalists for the 2009 Bakeless Literary Prize, sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College, VT.  The winning manuscript will be announced in May and published by Graywolf Press.  The recipient of the prize will be awarded a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for 2010.  The prize is open to emerging writers.

Congratulations to Myleah Kerns, a doctoral candidate in Technical and Professional Discourse, who has been awarded the Emerging Scholar Award of the American Name Society for her essay "North American Women's Surname Choice Based on Ethnicity and Self-identification as Feminists" presented at the annual conference in January.  The award includes a cash prize of  $250, a year's membership in ANS, and the opportunity to submit her paper for publication in the journal Names.  Kerns also works as the Assistant to the Director of the First Year Writing Studio in the English department.

On March 4, Marie Farr was honored as one of ECU's Women of Distinction at a reception sponsored by the Chancellor's Status of Women Committee members held in Joyner Library.

Nicole Sidhu's  "Weeping for the virtuous wife: laymen, affective piety and Chaucer’s ‘Clerk’s Tale’" published in Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing, and Household in Medieval England was recognized as Honorable Mention in the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship competition for 2009 Best Article of Feminist Scholarship on the Middle Ages.  "SMFS promotes the study of the Patristic Age, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies. It actively promotes and supports interdisciplinary exchanges at all levels of higher education across the world. Members represent every continent and every academic discipline within the arts & humanities.  MFF is published twice yearly (Winter & Summer issues). Its contents include articles from any of the Humanities disciplines, roundtables about the state of gender & feminist scholarship, book reviews, and specialized bibliographies. Begun in 1986 as Medieval Feminist Newsletter (MFN), in 1999, the journal was renamed Medieval Feminist Forum in order to better reflect the scholarly character of its articles and reviews."

Kirk St.Amant was recently selected for membership in ECU’s Servire Society, which recognizes faculty, staff, and students who have contributed 100 or more hours of volunteer service to the community in the previous year.  The community is defined as outside ECU and can include the region, the country, or the world.  For faculty, qualifying volunteer service must be done outside of normal duties related to teaching, researching, and advising.