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Thea J. Autry Named Founder’s Medalist for Graduate School

Oct. 22, 2020—Thea J. Autry, Ph.D.’20 (English) was named the 2020 Founder’s Medalist for the Graduate School. The Founder’s Medal is a 143-year-old tradition that recognizes the top graduating student from each of Vanderbilt’s 10 schools and colleges. Autry’s research and teaching focus on U.S. literature and visual arts of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with...