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    1. Student Success Stories

      Summer 2026 Interns for a Musical Theater Performance in an Italian UNESCO site (Agrigento)

      The selected students of the second edition of the Summer Internship in Performing Arts in Italy (The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, a UNESCO site located in the region of Sicily) are two Musical Theatre students, Lorenzo Hilliard and Lizzie Caldon. 

      A performance stage at night with fake crumbled marble ruins and an image of the Parthenon behind it
    2. Student Success Stories

      Understanding People, Inspiring Change: Noah Festerling’s Path in Forensic Psychology

      A Clinical Psychology graduate student, Festerling combined research, real-world experience and mentorship to prepare for a career in the criminal justice system.

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    3. Student Success Stories

      Finding Her Voice at Montclair, Speaking Up on Climate at the United Nations

      Political Science major Ana Barahona turned faculty mentorship, research and early‑morning commutes into a UN climate role and a future in law and leadership.

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    4. Student Success Stories

      Mariah Ayscue’s Journey Through Community, Care and Liberation

      A Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies major and NAIS field school participant, Ayscue reflects on identity, scholarship and the power of being fully human.

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    5. Student Success Stories

      The Greek Gods from Sicily Now Speak English: A Public Reading of the Musical “The Reawakening of the Gods”

      Il “Risveglio degli dei” — an immersive musical about Greek myths, written and directed by Marco Savatteri and presented every summer at dawn in the Valley of the Temples of Agrigento (Sicily) — debuted in English at Montclair State University on March 27, 2026.

      Group of college students singing together on stage during a choir performance
    6. Student Success Stories

      Announcing the 2026 English Department Scholarship and Award Recipients

      The English Department is excited to announce the 2026 recipients of the Department’s various scholarships and awards. You can view

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    7. Student Success Stories

      Announcing the 2026 English Department Scholarship and Award Recipients

      The English Department is excited to announce the 2025 recipients of the Department’s various scholarships and awards.

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    8. Student Success Stories

      Writing Studies Department Honors Writing Contest Winners, Honor Society Inductees and Interns

      During the ceremony, which took place on April 9 in the Feliciano School of Business, awards were given for outstanding work in First-Year Writing as well as in other Public and Professional Writing (PPW) classes.

      A group of six college students pose in a line, one students sits and holds a book which has the words "PPW Awards 2026" written in it
    9. Student Success Stories

      Italian MAT Student Wins Prestigious NECTFL and NOIAW Awards

      February 27, 2026 – Angela Sabetta, Montclair State University’s first student in the Master’s Program for the Teaching of Italian, was awarded the prestigious Future Language Educator Award funded by Vista Higher Education offered by the Northeast Conference for Teachers, for Languages, for Cultures at the NECTFL conference on February 27 th in New York.

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    10. Student Success Stories

      A Summer at Wyck: Rediscovering the Lives of a Chinese Desk

      Cristina Freire examining Wyck’s lacquered Writing Desk up-close. Montclair State University student Cristina Freire, a senior History major

      A person wearing gloves examines an old, wooden desk