Our chapter's awards, grants, elections, publications, scholarships, stipends . . .
$13,174 in this academic year of 2024-2025!
Congratulations to senior Matthew Chinique (BA ENGT '25) who served as Eastern Student Representative to the Sigma Tau Delta Board of Directors.
Congratulations to MAT student Lauren Farrell (BS ELEM Special+ English '24; MAT '25) whose short story "Mirrors" was published in the 2025 Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle.
Congratulations to senior Veronica Gomez (BA ENGA '25) whose poetry was published in the 2025 Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle.
Congratulations to alumna Zoe O'Malley (BA ENGT '24; MA candidate) who won a classroom library grant of $400 to support her students at Fisher Middle School in Ewing, NJ.
Congratulations to Jake Hamtil (BS ELEM Special + English '25; MAT '26) who won the Fred Kiley Award.
Congratulations to graduate student Maggie Machado (BA ENGT '24; MA English '25) who has received the fall term P.C. Somerville Award for Future Teachers of English and English Language Arts. The $2000 award helps defray the costs of starting a new teaching career.
Congratulations to sophomore Kelly Kim (BA ENGT Special '27) and first year student Natalia Tomczak (BA ENGT Urban '28) for coordinating the acclaimed "Dinner and a Show" event with Shakespeare '70, and many thanks to the set up and clean up committees.
Congratulations to Kat Jorgensen (BA ENGA '24; MA English '25) whose essay "An Epic Reborn: Adaptation as Resistance in 21st Century Homeric Retellings" has won the 2025 Ellen G. Friedman Award and who presented that essay at the Celebration of Student Achievement.
Congratulations to advisor Diane Vanner Steinberg for winning "Advisor of the Year" at the Roscars Student Organization Awards.
Congratulations to Chapter Members who won departmental awards at the English / Sigma Tau Delta May Celebration: Matthew Chinique won the Alfred P. Holman Award; Corinne Coakley won the Peter Wood Award; Madison Flynn won the Herman Ward Award; Isabel Lindsay won Honorable Mention in the Peter Wood Award.
Congratulations to Matthew Chinique (BA ENGT '25; MA English '26) who has won the Sigma Tau Delta 1924 Centennial Scholarship of $1,924. This scholarship has one winner nationwide and honors both scholarship and service.
Congratulations to Joelle DuFault (BA ENGA '25; MA English '26) who has won the Undergraduate Scholarly Paper Award of $750 to help defray the costs of attending the conference at which she presented her work with the WILL program.
Congratulations to Lauren Farrell (BS ELEM Special + English '24; MAT '25) who has received the spring term P.C. Somerville Award for Future Teachers of English and English Language Arts. The $2000 award helps defray the costs of starting a new teaching career. Both the Fall and Spring winners of the P.C. Somerville Awards were TCNJ graduates.
Congratulations to Stephanie Martinez (BA ENGA '25; MA English '26) who has received a First Year Graduate Studies Scholarship of $4,000.
Congratulations to Allison Silver (BA ENGA '26) who has been named the first ever Sigma Tau Delta / MLA summer intern for summer 2025. Allison's work was supported by a $1,500 stipend.
Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention Recognition:
Congratulations to Chapter Members whose roundtable or Research in the Round presentations have been accepted at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention in Pittsburgh, PA: Maggie Machado, Stephanie Martinez, Greta Soos, and Felicia Jean Steele.
Congratulations to the 27 students whose papers and creative works have been accepted for presentation at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention in Pittsburgh, PA: Becca Briegs; Sian Brossard; Alexis Cherby; Matthew Chinique; Ciara Corbett; Roshni Dave; Emma Diamond; Joelle DuFault; Lauren Farrell; Catherine Gonzalez; Jake Hamtil; Kat Jorgensen; Claire Kim; Elizabeth Klein; Jaxon Leifer; Isabel Lindsay; Maggie Machado; Stephanie Martinez; Rachel McDonald; Erin Parker; Katie Parsons; Ebony Riley; Allison Silver; Greta Soos; Stefan Stojanoski; Emma Weniger, and Matthew Yuro. We were very sorry that Kat Jorgensen, Claire Kim, and Matthew Yuro could not attend convention.
Congratulations to the TCNJ Alpha Epsilon Alpha chapter of Sigma Tau Delta for winning the $500 "Outstanding National Chapter" Award at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention. This is a testament to our student leaders.
Congratulations to senior Joelle DuFault (BA ENGA '24; MA English '25) for winning first place and $500 in the "Stemmler/Dennis LGBT& Award for Nonfiction and Critical Work" Category at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention. Her essay was "The Haunting of Gender and Sexuality in Rebecca."
Congratulations to graduate student Emma Diamond (BA ENGT '24; MA English '25) for winning second place and $300 in the "Isabel Sparks President's Award for Critical Essays: Other Critical Literature" Category at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention. Her essay was "Anthropocentric Anthropomorphism in Children’s Lit."
Congratulations to graduate student Maggie Machado (BA ENGT '24; MA English '25) for winning third place and $200 in the "Isabel Sparks President's Award for American Literature" Category at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention. Her essay was "An Image of Indigeneity: Orientalism in Moby-Dick."
Congratulations to MAT student Lauren Farrell (BS ELEM Special + English '24; MAT '25) for winning an honorable mention and $100 in the "Isabel Sparks President's Award for Common Reader-Focused Writing" Category at the Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention. Her essay was "The Dismembered Body and Generational Trauma."
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