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September 2026

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2026-2027 Scholarship Winners

Please join in the English Department in celebrating our undergraduate scholarship winners for 2026–2027. Emma Crooks is a senior Publishing major from Knoxville, Tennessee and recipient of the 2026 Bill Larsen Cinema Scholarship. Emma is an officer in UT’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honors society, and enjoys reading, playing guitar, and volunteering at church.  Bristol native Brianna […]

Scholar Spotlight: Marie Taylor

“I study the writings of British colonists and Indigenous people in America in the seventeenth century. I analyze letters, diaries, sermons, medical manuals, and political documents in order to investigate how colonial people and their writings were influenced by Native American people, places, and ideas.”    Marie TaylorAssistant ProfessorDepartment of English Analyzing early colonial texts in […]