SEATTLE BRANCH SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE

Beginning in fall 2008, the Seattle Branch has given scholarships of $1500 each to four entering graduate students in the University of Washington's English Department. This will help the department recruit the very best students, our teachers and scholars of English in the future.

SUPPORT FOR SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
The Scholarship Committee thanks you for your generous contributions in response to our February request. Many thanks to Mary Mohler, Betty Carter, Robert Schramke, Alan Waggoner, Dwyla Donohue, Harriet Trabert, Don McKenzie, Vincent Jolivet, Dorothy Kittleson, Stan Beckelman, Patricia Haggerty, Kristen Ferguson, Biff Roche, Janet Reed, Marge Harvey, Charlotte Henke, Donna Smith, Sarah Atwood, H. DeForest Hardinge, Loveday Conquest, Mona Belle Miller, Mary Bakke, Sainsbury Strack, Larry Woodin, Henry Kuharic, Gay Saunders, Edward Hyde and Anne Passantino for their generous support. Much appreciated.

ESU AND UW'S ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCE FALL 2011 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

The ESU's Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce that four entering graduate students have been granted Recruitment Scholarships from the Seattle Branch. Each student, upon entry to the graduate program in English in Fall 2011, will receive a scholarship of $1,500. We will get to meet them at one of our members' receptions and at the May 2012 Annual General Meeting. Their names and areas of interest are as follows:

Elaine Barr. A graduate of Indiana University, Barr is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth century American literature. She proposes to study both the origins of the historical novel as a genre in the writings of Cooper and Hawthorne and the later use of the form to reflect on early American experience.

Taylor Boulware. A B.A and M.A. graduate of Oregon State University, Boulware’s areas of focus are speculative and fantasy fiction, especially dystopian (the opposite of utopian) fiction for young adult audiences. Why do books such as Twilight appeal to so many young readers, especially teenage girls, and what does that say about contemporary American culture?

Jeffrey Janosik. Having received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire), and an M.A. from the same university at Milwaukee, Janosik comes to the UW as a specialist in the British Victorian era. He is particularly interested in the many ways in which food takes on a curious unexpected prominence in Victorian literature and life, from the hungry orphans in Dickens’ novels to the production of colonialist cookbooks for housewives in India, to parliamentary debates over what can legally go into a sausage.

Samantha Simon. A graduate of Emory University and Hunter College, Simon concentrates her research on African American literature. Having also studied in South Africa, she approaches the history of slavery in the U.S. as an episode within a broader story concerning the movement of goods and peoples around the globe.

Every ESU member and guest who has attended a reception, purchased an auction item, made a cash donation or other contribution, has participated in funding these scholarships. These terrific students made their decision to attend the UW partly as a result of our ESU Recruitment Competition. Thank you for your support!


--Loveday Conquest, Scholarship Chair