ACCUTE is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Congress Graduate Student Merit Awards: Rajarshi Banerjee, Sarah Rewega, Waed Hasan, Ryanne Kap, and Zara Diab. The CGMA prizes recognize and celebrate the academic excellence and community contributions of graduate students who present their work at Congress.

In order to ensure our recipients are eligible for their award this year, they will be presenting their papers at a virtual panel on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Please join us if you are able.

The link to the CGMA panel is available through the Congress Virtual Platform and by request. If you would like the Zoom link for this session, please contact info.accute@gmail.com.

ACCUTE CGMA PANEL: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

• Ryanne Kap, Calgary; and Amy Janna LeBlanc, Calgary – Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl Music
• Sarah Rewega, Guelph – Visualizing Resistance: Exploring “The Revolution is a Woman” Protest through the Lens of “The Snap”
• Zara Diab, Western – From Motif to Mass Murder: How a Literary Trope Enables Incel Extremists

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• Waed Hasan, Guelph – Translation Crossroads: Charting Palestinian Narratives in English as a Native Arabic Speaker
• Rajarshi Banerjee, Western – Deadly Opposites: Begging the Question of Byronic Evil across Cuverian Worlds

Thank you for supporting our graduate students.