2026 Department of English Graduation & Scholarship Banquet

Published on April 16, 2026

We are pleased to announce the English Department Graduation and Scholarship Banquet Celebration on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 5-8 pm at the El Dorado Event Center at 2400 Studebaker Road, Long Beach, CA 90815. We hope to see lots of you at our graduation celebration, which is always great fun!  

Please join us in congratulating the winners of our 2026 English Department scholarships and awards:

  • Elizabeth Nielsen Scholarship: Gianna Fasano-Ernst

  • James I. Murashige Scholarship for a short story: Nathanael Hiromoto

  • William Shadden Memorial Award for poetry: Terran Noreyko and Leon Negrete

  • Gerald Locklin Writing Prize: Darya Jafarinejad and Noah Rubio

  • Isabelle McCaffrey Horn Memorial Scholarship for chapter of a novel: Alexis Harper

  • John B. Williams Scholarship in literature: Gisela Sequieda Lemus

  • John B. Williams Scholarship in English education or rhetoric and composition: Anaisabel Badilla Tlatoa

  • Mary Purcell Scholarship in 17th- and 18th-century studies: Drea Wineman and Alexis Ragan