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Rob Murray, first-year graduate student in the English Department's Composition and Rhetoric program, has been awarded the Moran-Herrington Fellowship for 2020. As a recipient of this financial award, he receives a course release from teaching during his first year of graduate study, giving him more time to focus on his research.

The Moran-Herrington Fellowship was first endowed in 2006 with a gift from Charlie and Kay Moran. Since then, the fund has continued to grow, thanks to generous contributions from Anne Herrington and Tina Plette, as well as many former students and alumni.

The purpose of the fellowship is to help recruit the best Ph.D. candidates in Composition and Rhetoric, particularly those whose "pursuit of further study in the field springs from an interest in classroom teaching." Murray writes, "My research interests are writing center scholarship, sociological theory, and writing pedagogy. I like to do cross-disciplinary research in sociology studies to imagine a socially-conscious teaching of writing. This Fellowship gives me the opportunity to invest further in my role as a new graduate student, teacher, and researcher in my first year at UMass."

Please visit the Moran-Herrington Fellowship page to learn more or to view a list of past recipients.