Graduate Teaching and Writing Awards

Distinguished Teaching Award

The Department of English offers a teaching award for graduate students who demonstrate excellence in the classroom. Students interested in being considered for this award should notify Virginia Buckwalter in the chair’s office.

Graduate Writing Award in Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric

This competitive award recognizes superior graduate writing that investigates questions relating to literacy, pedagogy, or rhetoric. We welcome writing that takes any number of critical approaches: theoretical, historical, pedagogical, ethnographic, empirical, aesthetic, and/or multimodal. Submissions may be seminar papers, scholarly articles, essays developed from conference presentations or dissertation work, digital or online projects, or projects composed specifically for this competition. All submissions must have been written in the period from the Fall 2009 semester through the Fall 2012 semester. Each student may submit only one project for consideration. Graduate students from any discipline may apply for the award. Submissions will be judged on the level of critical engagement with the topic, the significance of the argument, and the quality of the writing. The winning graduate student will receive a $200 award.

Please submit your project via email to Tena McDevitt (tkm13@pitt.edu) by Monday, February 20, 2012. Your entry should *not* include any personal information. In the body of your email, please include a brief statement with the following information: name, email, department, and submission title. We will announce the winner of the award at the award lecture and reception on March 29, 2012.