William Tolbert, a second-year MA student in American and British Literature, presented “Writing the Savage South: Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty and Northern Colonialist Discourse” at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Southern regional conference in Wilmington, NC, October 1-3, 2015. We are delighted to announce that William’s presentation received the “Best Graduate Student Paper” Award at this conference. Congratulations!