Student/Faculty Accolades

By Chloë Moore ’24

Zoё Roos Scheuerman ’24 was accepted as a Fulbright Scholar! She will spend the 2024-2025 academic year in Innsbruck, Austria, where she will take classes at the University of Innsbruck and split her time between two part-time positions. One position is as an ESL teaching assistant at a local, STEM-focused vocational high school. The other position is as a programming and archival assistant at a nonprofit literary institute, the Literaturhaus am Inn. A huge congratulations to Zoë! We look forward to hearing about all her exploits in the coming months.

Professor Jim Dawes appeared on NPR’s Academic Minute to speak about video games, and their merit as both vehicles for narrative and as opportunities for human fulfillment. You can listen to the discussion here. Prof. Dawes also recently hosted a Literary Salon in the department to talk about video games, which you can read about in this issue of the Words!

Professor Emma Törzs’s novel Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards on May 7th in the Genre Fiction category. We had the pleasure of celebrating the book in the department last month. Congratulations to Prof. Törzs!