Events

Join us in the Grucci Room to celebrate this year's graduate student award winners! Presentations of their work will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Lunch will be provided by Irving's.

Aaron Gabriel Montalvo, winner of the 2022-2023 CALS Dissertation Support Award

Presentation Title: "How Much is Wood Worth?: Narrating Economic and Ecological Values in The Overstory and Damnation Spring"

A dual-title candidate in English and Visual Studies, Aaron Gabriel Montalvo studies contemporary Western American literature and visual art with a focus on ecocriticism. His dissertation, currently titled “Narrating the Nature of Resources,” examines the way that stories about natural resources can promote sustainability by changing perceptions of resource production, use, and depletion. He has presented his work at conferences for the Western Literature Association, the Hemingway Society, and the International Associate for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Sabrina Evans, winner of the 2022 CALS Summer Graduate Fellowship

Presentation Title: "The Diary of a Black Woman Organizer: The Perils of Travel and the Practice of Constant Agitation in the Writings of Mary Church Terrell"

Sabrina Evans successfully defended her dissertation, "Constant Agitation: Black Clubwomen's Literary, Intellectual, and Public Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," earlier this spring semester. Her research specializes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century African American literature, with an emphasis on Black women’s writing, print culture, and organizing. She is currently co-project coordinator of the Black Women's Organizing Archive, a digital humanities project which seeks to bring together the scattered archives of nineteenth and early twentieth century Black women's archives.