The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is the first Dietrich School department to receive the Mighty Oak designation from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Suite Awards. A celebration of the recognition will take place in the William Pitt Union in the lower lounge on July 10 from 3-4:30.
The 2024 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) Book Prize has been announced. Jasmine Reid received the prize for her manuscript, “Interlocutor Goddess.” The manuscript will be published in 2025 by Autumn House Press.
Reid is also the author of Deus Ex Nigrum (2020) and a recipient of Cave Canem and Poets House fellowships. She has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute.
Cho-yun Hsu, university professor emeritus of history and sociology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the prestigious Tang Prize in Sinology today. In his 30 years on Pitt’s faculty, Hsu produced a wide-ranging and influential body of work on Chinese history and culture.
Morgan Chen (A&S ’24), of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, graduated with majors in German and psychology and minors in LGBT and critical sexuality studies. Inspired by her time spent studying abroad in Heidelberg, Chen will serve as an English teaching assistant in Germany before pursuing graduate school for mental health counseling.
JC Bardzil, a technical director in the Department of Theatre Arts in the Dietrich School has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 Orosz Award for Excellence in Emerging Leadership.
From the announcement:
Diana Khoi Nguyen, an assistant professor in the English Department in the Dietrich School was interviewed for PittWire about her poetry and upcoming book, Root Fractures:
