Awards & Appointments

Congratulations to Pat Bizzaro who was selected as one of six faculty recipients of the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award.  The award carries with it a stipend of $1000.

ECU English majors William "Scotty" Childress and Michael Miller were winners in this year's Shannon Meek Creative Writing Contest. Childress's story "Andante" won the $150 second place prize, and Miller received an Honorable Mention for his story "Shucked." Other winners were Julia Whicker (Elon College) for her story "Battle Scar" (First Place, $300), and Theresa Chen (UNC-CH) for her story "Tea and Coffee" ($75 Third Place). Judges for the contest were Peter Makuck and Mary Carroll-Hackett. The statewide annual award is given in support of NC undergraduate creative writing and was established in memory of Shannon Meek, a senior ECU English major killed in an automobile accident in Spring 2000.

Other student awards include: Gary R. Redding who has been selected as the 2002-2003 recipient of the Russell Christman Memorial Scholarship in English; Ashley Brooke Medlin has been selected as the 2002-2003 UBE award in English; Judy Clark received the 2002-2003 Miller-Moore Scholarship in English, and Dawn Marie West's essay, "Deception, Spectatorship, and Appearance vs. Reality in Much Ado About Nothing and Cymbeline," has been selected as the 2001-2002 Paul Farr Memorial Essay Competition winner.

Laureen Tedesco was elected to serve on the Article Awards Committee of the Children's Literature Association for a three-year term beginning in June.  The committee chooses and honors what it deems the best literary critical article on children's literature published in a given year.

Donald Palumbo presented the IAFA Robert A. Collins Distinguished Service Award to C. W. Sullivan III at the 23rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, March 20-24. Sullivan is the sixth recipient of this award, which was last presented in 1996 to Palumbo.