This spring, Brian Broome both completed his MFA (nonfiction) and saw the release of his memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods (HMH Books, 2021), with an introduction by Pitt Associate Professor Yona Harvey. You can read the New York Times review of the memoir here.
Adjunct instructor Katie Booth's The Invention of Miractles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness was published by Simon & Schuster this spring. Fifteen years in the making, this heavily researched book was recently reviewed by Andrew Solomon for The New York Times. 
Associate Professor William Lychack's novel Cargill Falls (Braddock Avenue Books, 2020) was awarded a Silver Independent Publisher Book Award/Northeast Region this spring.
Associate Professor Diana Khoi Nguyen has received a National Endowment for the Arts award for 2021, as well as University of Denver College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Alumni Award.
Assistant Professor Caro Pirri and Associate Professor Ryan McDermott have received a National Endowment for the Humanities Media Production Award this year.
Writing Lecturer Shannon Reed's humorous collection of essays, Why Did I Get an B? And Other Mysteries We're Discussing in the Faculty Lounge (Simon & Schuster, 2020), was chosen by Target department stores for their Target Recommends program and was also recommended by People magazine and Bookpage, among other venues, and excerpts have been published in The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, and LitHub.
Lecturer Steven LeMieux has earned the John C. Mascaro Faculty Lectureship in Sustainability for writing sustainability.
Carl Kurlander, a senior lecturer in Film & Media Studies and producer of Burden of Genius, the 2018 documentary on Pitt-based transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl, has been honored with a Donate Life Hollywood Inspire Award from One Legacy, an human donation advocacy organization.
Department Chair and Professor of Literature Gayle Rogers has been elected to a three-year term (2022–2025) on the Executive Council of the Association of Departments of English.
Professor of Literature Shalini Puri has been granted a Global Studies Center Faculty Fellowship at the University.
Senior Lecturer Jennifer Keating has received a Pitt European Studies Center Faculty Research in Europe grant.
Michael Meyer, professor of Writing (nonfiction) has won two University grants to do research in Taiwan: a Center for International Studies Hewlett International grant, as well as support from the Asian Studies Center.
S. Brook Corfman, a PhD candidate in Critical & Cultural Studies, with an emphasis in Composition, has received more recognition for their second book of poetry: My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites (Fordham University Press, 2020), which won the press's Poets Out Loud competition, has been listed in a New York Times "Best Poetry of 2020" column.
Writing Center Administrator Sandy Foster was recognized this spring at the Chancellor's Staff Recognition Ceremony for her 30 years with the University.
Senior Lecturer Ellen McGrath Smith read her work at the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival this past fall, and was a featured reader at the Kestrel magazine fall celebration. Her work has recently appeared in The Georgia Review, The Bennington Review, The Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Talking Writing, and in Show Us Your Papers: A Poetry Anthology (Main Street Rag, 2020).
Boen Wang (MFA Nonfiction, 2022) won the 2020 "Best New Artist" prize for his audio story "Infinities" at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, "the Oscars of podcasting."
PhD candidate Gabrielle Rajerison was awarded the 2020–21 American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.
PhD candidate Celena Todora has been awarded the Dietrich School's Humanities Engage Immersive Fellowship for both spring 2021 and the 2021–2022 academic year.
PhD candidate Elise Silva was the Sawyer Seminar fellow this past year, doing research in the digital humanities.