Robert Mayo Memorial Prize
Best Paper from English 298/300
"Introduction to Reading & Interpretation"
2022-23
Eva Herscowitz
“Radical Reimagining: Double V and Acceptable Violence in Langston Hughes’ “Simple Stories””
Bobby Yalam
“Heavenly Whores: Exalting the Abject in Genet’s The Screens”
2021-22
Claire Lu
“Gendering of the public and private sphere in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”"
2020-21
Allison Macdonald
“The Boy Who Cried Woolf: Humor, Satire, and Feminism in Orland”
2019-2020
Melissa Gauger
“Jane Austen’s Guidebook to Fear”
2018-2019
Celine Fitzpatrick"Projections, Deflections, and Imperfections: the Mirror Images of Hedwig and Passing"
2017-2018
Tiffany Wu"True Newness: Deconstructing Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler"
2016-2017
Co-winners
Lydia Wuorinen"The Black Sheep's Book of the Dead"Solveig Herzum"A Bond of Unspoken Sisterhood"
2015-2016
Katie Rim"Narratives of Guilt: An Interpretation of Mansfield and James"
2013-2014
Caroline Brown"The De-Anthropological Machine"
2012-2013
Katheryn Ikenberry"Redefining Home: Residing in Memories"
2011-2012
Nicole Sheriko"Textual Housekeeping: Language's Role in Maintaining Societal Boundaries"
2010-2011
Co-winnersEd Krystosek"When You Ain't Got Nothing, You Got Nothing to Lose. Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping as a Mediation on Trauma and Epistemology"Ellen Maddy"The Nature of Kingship in Richard II"
2009-2010
Co-winnersKevin Soter"The Power of Blackness and 'Insight into the Uncanny': Two Critical Approaches to Poe's The Black Cat"Lindsey Kundel"'As Bitter as Unrequited Love': An Emigrant's Tale of the Betrayer and the Betrayed."
2008-2009
Maxwell Allison"An Essy on An Essay on Criticism - As Alexander Pope"
2007-2008
Catherine DeRose"The Convergence of the Public and Private Spheres in Elizabeth's Gaskell's North and South"
2006-2007
Harris Sockel"Angel Clare: Skepticism versus Religious Embodiment."
2005-2006
Anna Markiewicz"Hetty Sorrel and the Threat of Womanhood: Sexuality, Motherhood, and Infanticide in Adam Bede"
2004-2005
Annie H. Lee"Sentimental Evangelism"
2003-2004
Co-winnersDaniel Marschinke"Lockwood's Marginal Narrative: The Power of Gendered Narration in Wuthering Heights"Sakini Fakhri"Reading Moral Absoluteness into Melville's Pierre"Lindsay Johnson"She Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore: The Sea and Poetic A in Wallace Stevens's The Idea of Order at Key West"
2002-2003
David Baltmanis"Lower Frequencies and the Higher Interests of Society." 