Helen G. Scott Prizes
2022-2023
Helen G. Scott Prize for a Critical Essay
Abby Hsiao “Land as Teacher: A Review of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer”
James Eder “No Sweeter Fat: Walt Whitman and Food”
Maia Pandey “The Funniest Truths: Untraditional Masculinity in Bringing up Baby”
Rachel Lin “The Art of Womanhood in Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Woman”
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Yong-Yu Huang “This Isn't Personal: Punishment and Resistance in Burn! and Green Island”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Sriman Narayanan “come, voyager”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Julia Catrambone “HILMA”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Poetry
Noah Rabinovitch “Odes and Elegies”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Ysa Quiballo “an arm's reach”
2021-2022
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Laurisa Sastoque “Be Dammed: The Global Hydrosphere in Opposition to the Hydraulic Empire”
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Roy Zhu “Native Futures and Pasts: Indigenizing the Southeast”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Nathan Omprasadham “A Backwards Evanescence”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Madelin Powell “Aphra, Actresses, and Assault: How the Emergence of Restoration-Era Actresses and the Reformation of Sexual Assault Laws Inform Aphra Behn’s The Rover”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
August Moody “No One Likes to Grieve”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Olivia Putnam “Adult Supervision”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Poetry
Natalie Jarrett “Aphasia; Sonnets For Dead Rappers: MF DOOM; Zuhitsu”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Eva Herscowitz “Tear Up The Tulips”
2020-2021
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay
Caroline Hsu “Confronting the Age of Mass Surveillance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Elizabeth Vaynblat “Apologizing for Others: Building Sympathy and Culpability in Psycho”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Writing Excellence in Creative Writing
Zoë Huettl “Medical History”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Elizabeth Vogt “Hollows”
Tessa Seifried “Not All Boundaries are Meant to be Broken”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Sofia Bening “Forever(6 letters)”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Poetry
Grace Gay “Innocent Blood [excerpts]”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Kiersa Berg “Best, Sincerely, With Love”
2019-2020
Helen G. Scott Prize for a Critical Essay on post-1830 Literature
Elynnor Sandefer “Colonial Binaries and Joy Harjo’s The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window”
Helen G. Scott Prize for a Critical Essay on the Short Story
Erika Barrios “Maternal Mediation in María Cristina Mena’s The Birth of the God of War”
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Yetong Li “Fantomina of the Opera”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Celine Fitzpatrick “Down by the Water: Dry Baptism and the Subversion of Religious Symbolism in Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Claire Pak “Localization and the Imagined America in the Mother Series”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on pre-1830 Literature
Shealyn Abbott “Cold Hearted: Humoral Theory and the Impacts of Grief in Hester Pulter's Upon the Death of My Dear and Lovely Daughter”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Alice Yang “Disease and Dickens: Mental Manias and Miasmas in Bleak House and Little Dorrit”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Elizabeth Vogt “Small Everyday Objects”
Honorable Mention
Katherine O'Donnell “The Family Upon the Hill”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Kandise LeBlanc “A Mother's Love”
Honorable Mention
Annabel Heacock “Twinnies”
2018-2019
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Nathan Omprasadham "Shaw and Shelley"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literature, pre 1830
First Place
Sam Nguyen "'Comparisons Are Odious': Likeness, Differences, and the Ineffability of Desire in John Donne’s 'Sapho to Philaenis'"
Second Place
Madison Fiedler "What About the Lesbians?: The Impossibility of Lesbianism in 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
First Place
Asa Hiken "The Anxiety of Age in the Age of Anxiety"
Second Place
Harley Kirchhoff "Separation from the Eye of Society"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Michael Lenart "Pockets Full of Home"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Marielle Issa "Myths and Hieroglyphs: The Promise of Arabic in Craig Thompson's Habibi"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Pascale Carrel "Bodies, Language, and Understanding Motherhood in Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
First Place
Cameron Omori "Saucy and overbold": Middleton, Macbeth, and Editorial Influence on Interpretation
Second Place
Emily Baker "Un-Editing Capitalization in Shakespeare’s Sonnets for Accessibility"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Dora Grossman-Weir "The Great Melt"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
First Place
Rachel Hawley "My Peer-Reviewed Exorcism"
Second Place
Rhett Hoskinson "Caging Fire"
Third Place
Mathew Benson "The Tragedy at Goose Lake"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Annabel Dafiaghor "Crowned"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media
Erika Barrios "'Information Age' Poetics: A Critical Analysis of Mónica de la Torre’s Public Domain"
2017-2018
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Ari Mostow "'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ as a Critique of the West"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
co-winners
Nicole Kempis "He Crossed an Invisible Line: Constructing Proximity to Nature in Thoreau’s Journal and Herzog’s 'Grizzly Man'”
Laila Francis “External Histories Erasing the Personal”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Matt Lenz “Molly as an Example of Sex-Positive Feminism: Interpreting Ulysses in the #MeToo Era”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Evelyn MacPherson “The Arabian Storyteller’s Fight against Orientalism: 'A Thousand and One Knives,' Shahrazad and the Voice of the Iraqi Citizen”
Helen G. Scott Prize For Best Critical Essay On Literary Criticism And Theory
co-winners
Lois Biggs “Paranoid and Reparative Desire in Proust”
Emily Feng "The Immortal 'Immortelles': Reading Nature as a Dialogue Between the Eternal and the Transient”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper in Literature
First Place
Daniella Martino “Constructing a Memorial: An Exploration of Nostalgia in Benj. F. Taylor’s 'Songs of Yesterday'”
Second Place
Megan Beach “Shape Shifting and Genre Bending in Lucy Larcom’s 'Childhood Songs'”
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Allison Zanolli "Route 6"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
co-winners
Shane McKeon "Pen Pals"
Irina Huang "Messy"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
First Place
Katie Cavanaugh "Your First NFL Game"
Second Place
Faalon Andrews "Chicago: A Guided Tour"
Third Place
Katherine Swanson "Star Wars: It's a Generational Thing"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media
Shane McKeon Sound essay on Lil Peep
2016-2017
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on pre-1830 Literature
Payton Danner
"Between Vulnerability and Strength: On the Woman's Poetry of Epistolae Duorum Amantium"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Anna Kubacsek
"Heart of Darkness: The Contact Zone Betweeen Orality and Literacy"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Solveig Herzum
"The Game of Love and War"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Zining Mok
"Duets Across Space and Time: Beloved as a Postracial and Postcolonial Text"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media
Vivian Xu
"Aesop's Fables: A Digital Remediation"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Ann Ho
"To See the Rainbow: The Postcolonial Pastoral in Gcina Mhlophe's Sometimes When it Rains"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism & Theory, Co-winner
Mingxia Lim
"Confronting the Present: Depictions of Millennial Berlin in Contemporary German Film"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism & Theory, Co-winner
James Amick
"How the Enemy Feels Pain: Coping (or Not Coping) with Trauma in 'Redeployment' and 'The Corpse Washer'"
Helen G. Scott Prize for First-year Seminar Paper, First Place
Benjamin Lewis
"The Question of Monstrosity in Marie de France's Bisclavret"
Helen G. Scott Prize for First-year Seminar Paper, Second Place
Maxine Whitely
"Pinpricks"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Fiction, First Place
Nicole Wallace
"From One Generation to the Next"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Fiction, Second Place
Rex Shannon
"As the Din Raged On"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Fiction, Third Place
Katherine Swanson
"Good Company"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Sylvana Caruso
"Beanperson"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay, First Place
Isabella Procassini
"My Mother's Children"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay, Second Place
Mahalia Sobhani
"Quality Alternation"
2015-2016
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media
Mackenzie Broderick
"Damsels Causing Distress: Reimagining Medieval Womanhood"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Phillip Trautlein
"The 'Ineluctable Visuality' of the Advertiser: Bloom's Visuality of Gerty's Femininity in Ulysses's 'Nausicaa'"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature, first place
Marissa Ferrara
"Man vs. Genre: Vincent Vega as Pulp Fiction's Tragic Hero"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature, second place
Payton Danner
"It Would not Even Need a Skull: Reading Perception, Deception and Race in the Photographic World of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Marie Peeples
"In Lust They Burn: Pre- and Postlapsarian Sexuality in Paradise Lost"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Noam Shemtov
"As Word Becomes Spirit: Mimesis, Tragedy and the Modern Theology of Middlemarch"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Haley Boston
"Paul, The Pool Boy"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay, first place
Julia Clark-Riddell
"Lizardwoman Seeks Treeman"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay, second place
Nastasya Popov
"The Mother Art"
2014-2015
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Will Ejzak
"Hideously Incompatible: Solipsism and Gendered Selfhood in the Fiction of David Fodter Wallace"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Hannah Bredar
"Prospero's Crucible: Failures of Alchemy and Colonialism in The Tempest"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Carly Bluth
"Ecocriticism, Entropy, and the Gothic in Poe's Fiction"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Jessica Bickel-Barlow
"Maiden Texts: Female Sexuality and Male Authorship in William Shakespeare and John Fletcher"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Karen Gwee
"Fighting Anthropomorphism in the Stories of Reynard the Fox"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Shuoyang Sun
"Lionfish"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Jason Richman
"Sexual Landscapes in the Cinema: An Analysis of Ilinx, Mimesis, and Symbolic Sexuality in DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Emily Fishkin
"The Body Electric: Music, Electricity, and the Search for Agency in Ellison's The Invisible Man"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Katherine Koller
"Enjoying Sex Ed"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Arabella Watters
"Nostomania"
2013-2014
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Amrit Trewn
"Activating Hybridity to Unsettle the Colonial-Order-of-Things"
Best Critical Essay in American Literature
Mitchell Zhang
"Shapely Legs, Patriotism, and Rotten Apples: The False Dichotomy of Generational Conflict"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Ezra Olson
"'A Shared Imaginary': Sea of Poppies and Transnational Community"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Nicole Sheriko
"Playing the Audience: Theatrical Power and Audience Participation in The Tempest"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Manal Saleh
"On Doctor Faustus's Damning Act"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Breanna Lucas
"Lost in Displacement: Unstable Moral Markers in Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Jivin Misra
"The Place Between"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Jonathan Gleason
"Runs in the Family"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Ryan Chung-Ying Yang
"My Model Minority"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Ezra Olson
"The Love Song from Apartment 7A"
2012-2013
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Benjamin Ratskoff
"Darkening Gleams of Whiteness"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Ezra Olson
"To Die Yes To Die Yes To Die: Echo and Experience in Absalom! Absalom!"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Rachel Kaplan
"A Story of Life and Death: Nature and Memory's Shared Paradox in Housekeeping"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Bryan Jewell
"On Flesh"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Kendra Vaculin
"Midtown"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Jared Gilmour
"The Mound Builders"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Nicole Bronnimann
"A 'very special kind of spoleology': Assia Djebar's Theory of History in Fantasia, and Algerian Cavalcade"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Sarah Ratner
"A Very Inevitable Thing: The Evolution of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Starting from San Francisco as a Multimedia Object"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Patrick Harrington
"Hybridity and Tradition"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Erin Nelson
"Peculiar Expectations: Endings for Racial Others in Victorian Melodrama"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Travis Steele
"Muck"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Breanna Lucas
"Home Sick"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
William Hamel
"Palouse Hills"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Nicole Bronnimann
"Big Heart"
2011-2012
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Sophia Lipov
"Technology: Our Long-Lost Twin?"
Best Critical Essay in American Literature
Maeve Wall
"Devoted Until the End: Religiosity in James' Portrait of a Lady."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Carolyn Highland
"Parentage"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Shaunacy Ferro
"My Grandmother Wore Pants to Her Wedding"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Nadia Hlebowitsh
"Ghost Train"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Brendan Scannell
"Greeks"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Essay
Priyanka Bose
"Paper Butterflies"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Brenna Scheving
"Baggage: Reflecting and Directing Desire in Kafka's The Missing Person and Mendele Moykher-Sforim's The Travels of Benjamin the Third"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Ryan Lafferty
"Atget's Animation of Stillness: The Life of the Still"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Annabel We
"Misery of Remorse and Miserly Economy: An Analysis of Agenbite of Inwit and Amor Matris in James Joyce's Ulysses"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Laura Jok
"Authorship and Authority: Adam's Poetic Autonomy in Prelapsarian and Postlapsarian Paradise"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Maeve Wall
"Devoted Until the End: Religiosity in James' Portrait of Lady"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Degen Gottlieb
"Lightening and Marble: The Shattered Virtual and the Moment of Art in George Eliot's Middlemarch"
2010-2011
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Megan Crognale
"The Open: The Abyss within Kafka's Josef K, the Officer and Red Peter"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Anna Alber
"'Forgetting the Ground': Kafka's Musicology in Josephine the Singer and Investigations of a Dog"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Emma Martell
"Feste's Unexpected Profit in Twelfth Night"
Best Critical Essay in American Literature
Lindsey Kundel
"'Our White Girlhood was Passed Together': Daisy and Jordan's Possibilities of Passing and Identity as Performance."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Aaron Frumkin
Meditative Essay: "The Evolution of Flaw"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Abraham Benson-Goldberg
Lyric Essay: "Too Grand a Sacrifice"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Hayley Stevens
Voice in Fiction: "Bingoland"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Steven Koteff
Innovative Narrative in Fiction: "Great America"
Excellence in Creative Writing
Maya Walker
2009-2010
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Kati Skelton
"Erasing Ideology, Silending the Oppressed: The Paradoxical Exclusivity of Epistemic Inquiry"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Kate Brody
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?" "The Myth of Rural Simplicity in the Writings of Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Lindsey Kundel
"'This Song is...Broken': Kerouac's Making and Breaking of Art and Life."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Tara Garcia Mathewson
"Physical Representations of Marginalization in Their Dogs Came with Them"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Andrew Greenberg
New Voice in Creative Nonfiction: "Images from an Abyss"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Angela Mears
Creative Nonfiction: "Kinds of Hunger"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Evan Rausch
Voice in Fiction: "Tissue Analysis"
Excellence in Creative Writing
Alberto Roldan
Excellence in Creative Writing
Anna Kahane
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper
Hanna McKeeen
"Helen of Troy and Maud Gonne: The Dichotomy of Beauty and Violence in Yeats"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay in Pre-1798 Literature
Maxwell Allison
"When Cozening Doesn't Cut it: Lyly's Gallathea and Labor in the Early Modern pastoral"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay in Pre-1798 Literature
Joshua Wall
"Meaning and Myth: Translating the Fourth Stasimon of Oidipous Turannos"
2008-2009
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Angela Mears
Creative Nonfiction, New Voice: "Motherland"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Alberto Roldan
"Gran Torino"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Joshua Wall
"What it Was Like, Listening to Their Voices."
Fiction
Maxwell Allison
Voice in Fiction: "Punchline"
Fiction
Andrew Greenberg
Narrative in Fiction: "The Brief Family"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Nicole Roth
"Playing Leaster"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Penny Yeung
"Bodies in Shrines"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper
Elizabeth Weber
"The Redemption of Eve"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay in Pre-1798 Literature
Madeline Weinstein
"Adam and Eve: 'A Marriage of True Minds'? The Politics of Marriage in Paradise Lost"
2007-2008
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Rebecca Kupferberg
"Union with the Other through Death & Chaos"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper
Lucy Hill
"Chaucer, The Prioress, & the Jes: Testing the Limits of Marian Mercy"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Troy Nee
"Visions of Past, Present, and Future: Hell in Virgil, Dante, and Milton"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Nanette O'Brien
"Edenic Thresholds: Myth Ritual and Elegy in Modernist Gardens"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Samantha Goldstein
"The Narrative Gaze in The Company She Keeps."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Willy Nast
"Double-U, Eye, El, El, Why?"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Sean Quadlin
Voice in Fiction: "I Can Help You"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Joseph Drain
Narrative in Fiction: "Throwing Hard"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Erika Reid
"This For You Is All I've Done"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Caroline Pinkston
"Bringing Back Bird"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
William Mullen
"In Four"
2006-2007
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Troy Nee
"The Silence of Subatternity"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Rebecca Kupferberg
"Imperialist Dogma and The Rhetoric of Cultural Supremacy: Enfreakment and Womanhood in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
David Lassiter
"Truth, Knowledge, and the Problem of Philosophy in 'The Try-Works.'"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Mary Lin
"Nature and the City of Chicago Literature."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
J. C. Longbottom
Fiction, Co-winners: "Walking through Badlands National Park"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Daniel Gross
Fiction, Co-winners: "Counting Leaves on New Year's Eve"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Jeffrey Appelbaum
Voice in Fiction: "Bang Bus"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Ying Zhu Chin
Dialogue in Fiction: "The I.C. in the Green Wallet"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Nicholas Giles
Narrative in Fiction: "Retire"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Jared Davidson
Innovation in Fiction: "Looking for Athena"
2005-2006
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Shelley Kahn
"Are You Being Served?: The Role of Servants in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Alissa Anderson
"My Heart is Full of Rust "
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Vivian Shan
Fiction by a Senior: "The Garden"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Kuangyan Huang
Fiction by a Junior: "A House with Everything "
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Victoria Don
Fiction: "Estoy Contigo"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Nick Romeo
Voice in Fiction: "Roach and Slug "
Excellence in Creative Writing
Briget Ganske
Honor's Thesis: "Learning Esperar"
Excellence in Creative Writing
Daniel Gross
Overall performance in the Creative Writing Sequence
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Biran Orloff
"Fight the Power: Tyranny and Metadramatic Confession in Measure for Measure"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Veiled at Student's Request
"Modernist Women as Homo Sacer: The Gendering and Racialization of Biopolitical Processes"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Melissa Lipman
"Ulysses' Women in Bed: The Recapitulation of Odyssesus and Penelope in James Joyce's Ulysses"
2004-2005
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Joseph Bernstein
"'Rebel to the Grain': The Gothic Pleasure of Retribution in Joaquin Murieta and Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)."
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Jessica Stamler
"Buried in the Past: Repetition and the Gothic in William Faulker's Absalom, Absalom!"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Nicholas Romeo
Voice in Fiction Co-winners: "A Convention of Good Things"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Ashley Metz
Voice in Fiction Co-winners: "Food"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Jeffrey Goodsmith
Voice in Fiction Honorable Mention: "Ratman"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Alex Thurston
Fiction Co-winners: "Wild Guess"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Molly Niendorf
Fiction Co-winners: "Cough Drops"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Megan Hunt
Fiction Co-winners: "All Through the Night"
Excellence in Creative Writing
Meredith Walker
Excellence in Fiction by a Senior
Excellence in Creative Writing
Michael Wang
Excellence in Fiction by a Junior: "The Unrecognizable Men"
Excellence in Creative Writing
Jeannie Vanasco
Work in the English Major in Writing in Poetry
Excellence in Creative Writing
Rebecca Jubelirer
Overall performance in the English Major in Writing in Poetry Sequence
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Robert Stein
"The 'Man of Feeling' and Caleb Williams: A Novel of Sensibility"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Joseph Shero
"What You Will: Homoeroticism, Androgyny, and the Subversion of the Gender Concordant Law in Twelfth Night"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Kathleen Ho
"Uncontainable Women: Eruptive Female Figures in Contemporary South Korean Cinema"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Tim Quinn
"Portraits of a Divine Embrace: Augustinian Theodigy in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Christina Jacquet
"Male Self-Definition in My Antonia and The Company She keeps"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
John McGlothlin
"The Multiplicity of Jacob's Room: Woolf, Delezue, and Guattari, the Subject, and the West"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction by a Senior
Meredith Walker
"The Color Red Will Soon Become Important to You"
2003-2004
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Michael Emmons
"An Illusion to Live By: Unreliable Narration and the American Voice in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Christina Choi
"'Dressing Up Our Pets' by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Thomas Berenato
"The Artist as Critic as Horace as Wilde"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature
Joseph Shero
"The Mutability of Race in Oroonoko and The Interesting Narrative"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Hadley Bentgen
"Bingers and Purgers: Morality and Dickens's Political Meal"
Excellence in Creative Writing
David Ro
Poetry: "Separation: On The Koreas," "A Bend of View," and "The Fishing Hole"
Excellence in Creative Writing
Alison Baenen
Fiction: "Meat"
2002-2003
Best Critical Essay in American Literature
Michael Emmons
"Ladies in their Letters: The Equivocal Nature of Female relationships in Hannah W. Foster's The Coquette."