This award is funded by a gift from the husband and children of Barbara Taustine Plattus, a public school teacher and part-time faculty member at UofL who was passionate about English, theater, and teaching. To be considered for this award, GTAs submit a teaching portfolio at the end of the spring semester. The winners are selected by the English Department’s Composition Committee; in recent years, one award has gone to an MA student and one to a PhD student. The amount of the award changes annually based on the endowment.
Recent winners:
2023-2024
| NAME |
|
| Christina Davidson |
PhD student |
2022-2023
| NAME |
|
| Kylee Auten |
MA student |
| Rachel Morgan and Michael Benjamin |
PhD students |
2021-2022
| NAME |
|
| Zoë Litzenberg |
MA student |
| Lauren Fusilier |
PhD student |
2020-2021
| NAME |
|
| Hayley Salo |
MA student |
| Brittany Smart |
PhD student |
2019-2020
| NAME |
|
| Charlotte Asmuth |
PhD student |
| Edward English |
PhD student |
2018-2019
| NAME |
|
| Megen Boyett |
PhD student |
| Caitlin Ray |
PhD student |
2017-2018
| NAME |
|
| Ashanka Kumari |
PhD student |
2016-2017
| NAME |
|
| Michael Baumann |
PhD student |
| Lindsey Gilbert |
MA student |
2015-2016
| NAME |
|
| Megan Hartline |
PhD student |
| Travis Rountree |
PhD student |
