The National English Honor Society, Veritas Verba Chapter at the Middle College at Austin Peay State University, has earned national distinction with students Natalee (Rae) Daniels and Jessica Sun selected to present their literary research at the Sigma Tau Delta 2026 International English Convention in New Orleans, LA.
Their project—developed under the guidance of English instructor Cresta McGowan—offers a feminist reading of Esch from Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward and Maggie from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The students argue that silence and performative rambling—though seemingly opposite forms of expression—serve as parallel ways women “write themselves into the world.”
The proposal was chosen through the NEHS Convention Presentation Award, a national competition that provides full travel funding, lodging, meals, and complimentary registration for the event…