{"id":580,"date":"2024-01-08T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/?p=580"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:13:41","slug":"english-professor-receives-distinguished-literary-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/2024\/01\/08\/english-professor-receives-distinguished-literary-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"English professor receives distinguished literary honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/2023\/12\/29\/english-professor-receives-distinguished-literary-honor\/stephen-pasqualina\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-585\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-585 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/stephen-pasqualina.jpg?resize=170%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stephen Pasqualina, assistant professor of English\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Assistant Professor of English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/english\/full-time-faculty\/stephen-pasqualina\">Stephen Pasqualina<\/a> was awarded an honorable mention honor for the <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliteraturesociety.wordpress.com\/1921-prize-in-american-literature\/\">1921 Prize in American Literature<\/a> for his essay, \u201cBefore the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m grateful and wowed that my essay on Hurston&#8217;s &#8216;Barracoon&#8217; received an honorable mention for the 1921 Prize in American Literature,\u201d said Pasqualina.<\/p>\n<p>Pasqualina\u2019s essay was published in the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The 1921 Prize is awarded annually for \u201cthe best article in any field of American literature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pasqualina examines how Hurston\u2019s book on Oluale Kossola, one of the last survivors of the transatlantic slave trade, offers alternative approaches to understanding the history of transatlantic slavery and its afterlives.<\/p>\n<p>The article, was also selected as the \u201cEditor\u2019s Choice\u201d for the Summer 2023 issue of MELUS. <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/melus\/article\/48\/2\/1\/7233437?login=true\">Read the Pasqualina\u2019s essay.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina was awarded an honorable mention honor for the 1921 Prize in American Literature for his essay, \u201cBefore the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality.\u201d \u201cI&#8217;m grateful and wowed that my essay on Hurston&#8217;s &#8216;Barracoon&#8217; received an honorable mention &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[21,10,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}