Yvette Benevides, Professor of English, Mass Communication, and Drama, has been awarded the Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin and will be the 2024 Dobie Paisano fellow in residency from September through December.
The Dobie Paisano is an internationally known and recognized writer-in-residence award, whereby the awardee resides and writes at J. Frank Dobie’s ranch outside of Austin for four months.
The Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program is a major award, and writers from all over the world have been recipients in its 50 years of existence.
To take the residence this fall, Professor Benavides will be on a leave of absence from the university for the fall 2024 semester.