WLL Commencement 2022 (05/22)
The World Languages and Literatures department held their first in-person commencement after two years online on May 22 in Booth Theatre, giving students, faculty, and family and friends a chance to celebrate this year’s graduating seniors.
The College Prize Award is given to one student each year who demonstrates exceptional academic achievement and community involvement throughout their undergraduate studies. This year the prize was awarded to Jennifer Price, a Russian Language and Literature major, who graduated summa cum laude. Jennifer was also this year’s undergraduate student speaker, and she shared her speech modeled after a translator’s introduction. Congratulations Jennifer!
The graduate student speaker Maggie Vlietstra (our first Translation MFA student speaker) congratulated her fellow classmates on their accomplishments and emphasized the importance of translation not just as a “niche” field of study but as an art form that both embraces and challenges the ways we communicate. Read Maggie’s speech, complete with her own axioms of translation here.
Several seniors were also awarded with Barbara Argote Senior Prize for excellence within their respective areas of study. The award recipients are listed below:
Barbara Argote Senior Prize Winners:
Timothy Obiso, Chinese Language & Literature
Guillermo Socorro, Comparative Literature
Ariel McMillan, Japanese Language and Linguistics
Jiayi Wang, Japanese Language & Literature
Simran Singh, Middle East and South Asian Languages and Literatures
Audrey Hager, Russian Language & Literature
Congratulations to everyone who graduated!
