Volume 10, Issue 1 (2023)

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Line by Line. The new design highlights the journal’s continued commitment to showcasing writing in print, multimodal, and digital formats produced by first- and second-year writers in the writing program in the Department of English. This issue also features the inaugural presentation of the John D. and Rose Marie Groppe Award for Excellence in Writing. Read more about it in the Editor's Note.

Awards for the Issue

John D. and Rose Marie Groppe Award for Excellence in Writing

• Daniel C. Napoli, “Historical Interpretations of the Formation of Public Education for Freedpeople in Reconstruction South”
• Eleanor Yates-McEwan, “The Midnight Incendiary: America’s Myth of Black Violence” (The author is also the recipient of the 2023 Father Jack McGrath, S.M., Award for Research in the Catholic Intellectual Traditions.)

Barbara Farrelly Award

• Alexandria Ford, “A Divided Front: Abolitionist Women’s Suffrage Movement Through the Lens of Intersectionality”

Father Jack McGrath, S.M., Award for Research in the Catholic Intellectual Traditions

• Alexandra Amrhein, 2024, “‘The Truth Only Dies When True Stories Are Untold’: The Story of Reconstruction in New Orleans”
• Elayna Walloch, 2023, “The Catholic Church’s Teachings on Suicide”