This year, the Department English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics is highlighting the Wirzbicki Award for our Day of Giving Challenge.
This award, financed by Greg Wirzbicki and his family's CSUF endowment, supports faculty and student research collaboration and past faculty and student recipients have completed impressive projects. Scroll down to learn more about the great projects faculty and students have completed!
This year, Greg will offer the following matching campaigns for donations:
- 1:1 match for the first $3,000
- 2:1 match for the next $2,000
- 25 donors will unlock $1,000
- 40 donors will unlock $2,000
If you are considering offering a gift, today is the day to ensure that your gift will have maximum impact.
Past Wirzbicki awardees have engaged in the following projects:
In 2023, a Wirzbicki award facilitated student collaboration with me in a project to found a U.S. Latinx Science Fiction Collection—the only one of its kind--in Special Collections in CSUF's Pollak Library. Students helped put on an exhibit and a symposium of writers held in the library to celebrate the opening of the new Collection and read new works coming into the collection and wrote reviews to promote its use online. Students gained valuable hands-on experience in the production of knowledge in the Humanities. –David Sandner
I worked with a graduate student, Amreen Rentia, on a co-edited special issue of Studies in the Novel on “The Marriage Plot, ‘Post’ Marriage” (to be published in Winter 2026). As a research assistant, Amreen had the opportunity to see the nuts and bolts of the publication process by assisting with tasks like reading and evaluating submissions, composing and tracking correspondence, offering editorial suggestions for essays, sitting in on meetings with me and my co-editors, and generally observing how a journal issue comes together. As her faculty mentor, I guided her through this process, providing valuable information and instruction about how to effectively review and edit submissions for publication. –Lana Dalley
My student, Ms. Jie Lie and I received the annual Wirzbicki fund for faculty-student research and creative activities in 2022. It was a great research experience for the student since she had a chance to work with me on a research topic: Assessment of Gordon’s Luce’s Comparative Sino-Tibetan Word Lists in Relation to the Reconstruction of Proto-Tibeton-Burman and Proto-Kuki-Chin. She indicated that she will try to publish the paper in a Chinese academic journal. –Ken Van Bik
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