Bradley and Amador Win Teaching Awards

Anna Bradley and Steven Amador were selected as winners of the Bertie Fearing Award for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants for AY 2024-2025.

Bradley,  who graduated in Spring 2025, won in the MA student category. She stated, “Teaching at ECU gave me the confidence to enter my first career as an English teacher at Oakwood, and I am so grateful for every student and professor who helped me find my courage and confidence as a teacher. I am deeply grateful to the students who nominated me, those of whom are reading this letter, and to the English department as a whole, as they have all contributed to helping me create a student-centered classroom with not only a more knowledgeable teacher, but a self-assured teacher.”

Amador won in the PhD student category. He stated, “I approach teaching from a trauma-informed lens. Predictability is mapped through my multiple schedules, flexibility through my willingness to adjust the assignments/course and adjust myself to the students’ needs, empowerment through the student freedom, and community through the slow peer review process and real, human relationships we build throughout the course.”