Scholarships & Awards
Scholarships
The English Department recognizes student excellence with a number of scholarships for undergraduate English majors.
Each year the department awards six Charles and Frances Mangam Merit Scholarships, which pay full tuition and fees, to declared English majors with at least sophomore standing. A seventh Mangam Merit Scholarship is designated for the best declared minority English major.
The department also awards the following scholarships:
- The Julie Hagler Scholarship - given annually to a rising junior with a well-rounded course record;
- The Willis Merit Scholarship - given annually to a junior or senior who has expressed and demonstrated interest in pursuing a teaching career;
- The Edwin Watson Bowe Scholarship - given annually to one of the department's top majors;
- The Felice and Boudleaux Bryant Scholarship - given annually to an outstanding English major concentrating in literature.
Applications for the Mangam, Hagler, Willis, Bowe, Bryant, and Seilaz scholarships, including recommendation forms, are available by March 1 in 311 McClung Tower. They are also available (in Adobe PDF format) through the following links.
- Click here for the application form for the Mangam, Hagler, Willis, Bowe, Bryant, and Seilaz scholarships.
- Click here for the recommendation form for the Mangam, Hagler, Willis, Bowe, Bryant, and Seilaz scholarships.
The application deadline for 2008-2009 awards is April 18, 2008. For more information, contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Two other scholarships are available to undergraduate English majors.
- The Louise and Aileen Seilaz Scholarship - awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences to a student who has indicated an intent to follow a career in education.
- The J. Paul Blakely Scholarships - awarded by the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication to senior technical communicationsstudents. Deadlines for the Blakely scholarships are announced in March.
Awards
The English Department also recognizes student excellence in writing through the annual John C. Hodges Undergraduate Writing Awards. These include the following.
- The Bain-Swiggett Prize - given for achievement in traditional forms of poetry
- The Knickerbocker Award - which recognizes excellence in non-traditional forms of poetry, such as free and experimental verse
- The Captain Robert Arnold Burke Award - for fiction
- The Eleanora Richards Burke Award - for non-fiction
In addition, the College of Arts and Sciences awards the Margaret Artley Woodruff Award for Creative Writing. Currently enrolled undergraduate Arts & Sciences majors with at least a 2.5 GPA are eligible. For information about this award, contact the Liberal Arts Advising Center: 1 Alumni Memorial Hall; (865) 974-4481.
Deadlines for all of these prizes are announced in March. Further information can be obtained from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in 311 McClung Tower.