Anna Preus and Deborah Thurman, both doctoral students in English, have been awarded the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence from the Office of Graduate Studies at Washington University. This is the top teaching award that a graduate student in Arts & Sciences can win, and it involves a pool drawn from all the programs and departments of the school. Anna studies 20th-century literature and data science. The title of her dissertation is “Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship and British Literary Production, 1900-1940.” Deborah studies race, gender, and affect in contemporary American literature. Her dissertation is titled “The Sensitivity Readers: Managing Affect in Post-Civil Rights Era Literary Institutions.”
