Mark Muster, a master鈥檚 degree candidate in the Department of English in the , has been selected to receive this year鈥檚 award for the best essay by a graduate student in the humanities at 黑料不打烊.
Mark Muster
Muster鈥檚 paper, titled 鈥淩e-synching Queerness: Futurity in the Ephemeral in Andrew Haigh’s 鈥榃eekend鈥 and James Baldwin’s 鈥楢nother Country,鈥欌 will be read from during this year鈥檚 awards ceremony on Thursday, April 18, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library.
The annual award honors Mary Hatch Marshall, the first woman to achieve the rank of full professor in The College of Liberal Arts. She held the Jesse Truesdell Peck Chair in English literature, served as the first director of the Honors Program and was among the founding members of Library Associates.
Students from the Departments of African American Studies; Art & Music Histories; English; Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Philosophy; Religion; Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition; and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies are eligible for the award.
Library Associates established the annual award to honor and help perpetuate Marshall鈥檚 scholarly standards and generous spirit. Members of Library Associates, Marshall鈥檚 friends and family, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Central New York Community Foundation have all contributed to the endowment established in 2004 that funds the award.
For those wishing to make a gift to the Mary Hatch Marshall Award Endowment in remembrance of or in honor of Marshall, contact Ron Thiele, assistant dean for advancement for the Libraries, at rlthiele@syr.edu or 315.560.9419.
