Class Dates

• Intersession: May 14th - June 1st
• Full Term: June 4th - July 26th
• Summer Session 1: June 4th - 29th
• Summer Session 2: July 2nd - July 30th

Last Day to add/drop without Academic/Financial Penalty

• Intersession: May 15th
• Full Term: June 11th
• Summer Session 1: June 6th
• Summer Session 2: July 5th
   

Last day to receive 100% refund

• Intersession: May 15th
• Full Term: June 11th
• Summer Session 1: June 6th
• Summer Session 2: July 5th

Last day to drop classes without instructor permission

• Intersession: May 15th
• Full Term: June 11th
• Summer Session 1: June 6th
• Summer Session 2: July 5th

All approved drops will result in grade of “W” within these dates

• Intersession: May 16th - 25th
• Full Term: June 12th - July 12th
• Summer Session 1: June 7th - 21st
• Summer Session 2: July 6th - 20th

Last day to make and add/drop course request or withdraw from the University and receive a grade of “W”

• Intersession: May 25th
• Full Term: July 12th
• Summer Session 1: June 21st
• Summer Session 2: July 20th

After the last day to withdraw from the University, students are academically obligated and will receive a grade for all enrolled courses.

• Robin Atwood, Director of South Mississippi Writing Project, winner of the 2017-2018 Arts & Letters Staff Person of the Year Award.
  
• Dr. Angela Ball, selected to receive the 2018 University Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Bryana Fern, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Ben Mounger Rawls Award for Excellence in Creative Writing.
• Todd Osborne, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Joan Johnson Award in Poetry.
• Karla Keffer, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Joan Johnson Award in Fiction.
• Matthew Schmidt, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Garth Avant Award for Poetry. 
• John Duncan, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Garth Avant Award for Fiction.
• Jonathan Riccio, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Jeremy Lespi Award for Poetry.
• Anastasia Stelse, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Inaugural Miranda Merklein Award for Graduating Poet. 
• Andrew Gretes, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Inaugural Miranda Merklein Award for Graduating Fiction Writer. 
• Dr. Rebecca Powell, received the Butch Oustalet Distinguished Professorship Service Award, 2018.
• Dr. Christopher Foley, winner of the Faculty Senate Junior Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award, 2018.
• Hunter Joplin, PhD Literature candidate won the James Sims Award for his essay “Sing Along with Monsieur Rey: The Ingenuity of H. A. Rey’s Musical Picturebooks.” 
  
• Crystal Veronie, PhD Literature candidate won the Linwood Orange Award for her essay “‘When Who Can Uncreate Thee Thou Shalt Know’: Divine Violence in Paradise Lost.” 
  
• Karlie Herndon and Crystal Veronie, PhD graduate candidate in Literature were awarded the Howard and Helen Bahr Graduate Research Awards to present papers at conferences. 
  
• Carlton McGrone, undergraduate English major, has been selected to participate in this year’s week-long Rutgers English Diversity Institute, at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, NJ.
  
• Jessica Guzman, PhD Creative Writing candidate, 2018 Graduate Assistant of the Year.
• Hunter Joplin, PhD Literature candidate, recipient of a travel award for Professionals in Preparation (PIP) by the USM Graduate School.
• Chad Foret, PhD Creative Writing candidate, recipient of a scholarship from the Karen M. Yarbrough Graduate Education Scholarship Endowment.
• Nick Rupert, PhD Creative Writing candidate, won the 2018 Creative Writing Emerging Artist award by the Partners for the Arts.
• Crystal Veronie, this year’s winner of the Committee on Services and Resources for Women’s Kathanne Greene Essay Award for her submission, “’When my hands are empty / I will be full’: Rhetorical Erasure and Chrystos’s Not Vanishing”.

• Read about other USM English department majors, faculty and alumni who have Made Their Mark!

Visit the First-Year Writing Program page to learn more.