Respect is due!

The semester is only a little over halfway done, but we've already have loads of
congratulations to dole out. It has been a very good year to us here!

Congratulations go to...

Jon Singleton and his wife Julie, whose healthy baby girl, Lydia Jane, was born on February 28.

Laura Farmer, who had her "Christmas Eve" published in the Winter 2005/2006 Iowa Review.

Polina Kroik, who has been accepted to the English & Comparative Literature PhD program at Cal Irvine.

Gina Liotta's "A New Narrative: Reading Langston Hughes' Literature for Children as
Imagetext," which was featured in our October Negotiations reading, has not only been picked
up for publication in the forthcoming collection To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood from Wayne State University Press, but has also been accepted to next year's MLA convention.

Jon Senchyne, who accepted an offer to join the PhD program in English at Cornell.

Mike O'Connor is now officially a "PhD candidate", passing the qualifying exams he took this winter.

Enass Khansa was accepted into Georgetown University's Department of
Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics.

Nate Mills is currently weighing offers from PhD programs at Michigan, Illinois,
and Wisconsin.

Kate Giglio, who was hired by the English Department at the University of Central Florida
in sunny Orlando (no more Syracuse winters!).

I'm sure I've missed somebody, so apologies in advance. Let me know and I'll make sure to add more kudos to the list!

-mike