Sigma Tau Delta Fall 2025

Who we are

Sigma Tau Delta is the International Honors Society for the study of English language and literature. Established in 1924, it is one of the oldest and largest collegiate honors societies. Sigma Tau Delta promotes and supports literature and the literary arts, a love of books, storytelling, poetry, performing arts, and literacy in the broadest sense. Its service projects reflect and employ the skills and knowledge that the discipline cultivates. Sigma Tau Delta offers opportunities for students to present their creative and scholarly work in literary studies at campus symposiums, publish their work in the globally circulated undergraduate journals The Review (scholarship) and The Rectangle (creative writing), volunteer opportunities to work with English-language learners on and off campus, and material support for attending conferences and conventions that celebrate literature, literary studies, and creative writing. Sigma Tau Delta’s Pi Delta chapter was first established at Duquesne University in 1939 and it actively works to promote and celebrate a love for books, for storytelling, for poetry, and for language and lingual arts—something that we see as doubly important in an age in which large sections of society are turning to social media and/or AI for the narratives they consume.  

Not only does Sigma Tau Delta provides a forum for students to share their work and network with others who value the printed page and the lingual arts, it also highlights the importance of storytelling and the arts to the dignity and sovereignty of all human communities, large and small, near and far. Sigma Tau Delta speaks to the Spiritan mission of service on and off campus, empathy, conscientious engagement with the world, and intellectual rigor as a means to enhance the heart and the soul. 

 Why we need your help

We are raising money to cover the costs for sending our members to the 2026 Sigma Tau Delta Annual Convention, which will take place in March in New Orleans, Louisiana. Your assistance and generosity last year contributed to a memorable convention experience for our chapter right here in Pittsburgh. At the convention, students present their original poetry, short fiction, and their scholarly work on literature, literary history, linguistics, and rhetoric. Furthermore, students have a chance to network with students and faculty from other chapters, with publishers, directors of graduate programs, and representatives of various nonprofit organizations. They are also able to participate in professional development roundtables. Two of our members presented on a roundtable on the importance of internships (with non-profit organizations, publishing houses, etc.) to vocational prospects, and the ways in which their internships utilized the skills and knowledge they acquired in their studies in the English discipline.

At the 2025 convention here in Pittsburgh, our chapter won three awards—we won the award for best chapter display at the convention, we won runner-up for best chapter of the year, which is a nationwide recognition, and our president, Allison Frazer, won Sigma Tau Delta’s student leadership award. These are very significant accolades, given that Sigma Tau Delta has around 250 active chapters in the United States.

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