2014-2015
Edwin L. Shuman Senior Award in Creative Writing
Paul Riker
Edwin L. Shuman Award: Honors Thesis Category
Hillary Aarons
"Reverse Evaporations"
Edwin L. Shuman Junior Award in Creative Writing
Erin Holiday
Edwin L. Shuman Senior Award in Literature
Jessica Bickel-Barlow
Edwin L. Shuman Junior Award in Literature
Manal Saleh
Edwin L. Shuman Junior Award in Literature
Bethany Mueller
Edwin L. Shuman Junior Award in Literature
Caroline Brown
Edwin L. Shuman Award: Honors Thesis Category
Chelsey Moler
"The Politics of Narration: Reading Stranger-Suitors in Austen and Burney"
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"
Edwin L. Shuman Award: Essay Category
Chelsey Moler
"Dealing with 'Real Emotions': the Burdensome Male Gaze in Her"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Karen Gwee
"Fighting Anthropomorphism in the Stories of Reynard the Fox"
Robert Dentler Memorial Prizes
Alexandra Becker
"'One Who Does Not Speak Greek' Politics of Language in U.S.-Mexico Relations
Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize For best essay on Psychological interpretation of a literary text
Solveig Herzum
"The Traumatic Experience: Trauma in A Passage to India, Freud, and Caruth"
Robert Dentler Memorial Prizes
Rachel Girty
"This is not a Requiem"
Faricy Award for Poetry
Ali Gardezi
"Journey to the Arsoned Home"
Faricy Award for Poetry
Shuoyang Sun
"Distorted Memories"
Faricy Award for Poetry
Matt Levin
"On Titian's Portrait of Filippo Archinto
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Poets Prize
Aozora Brockman
"Butchering"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Shuoyang Sun
"Lionfish"
Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction
Daniel Moynihan
"Fortification"
Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction
Sunjay Kumar
"Late July 2014, Istanbul"
English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Michael Chin
"River's Tale"
Edwin L. Shuman Award: Essay Category
Julie Lunde
"The Plural of Fish
Edwin L. Shuman Award: Essay Category
Sophie Jacob
"Notes from Vietnam"
J. Scott Clark Award for Outstanding Aptitude in Creative Writing
Aozora Brockman
Excellence in creative writing
English Department Prize in Critical Nonfiction
Kyle Allen-Niesen
“Globalization, Oceans, and Robert Redford: J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost as Allegory for the State of the American Dream.”
English Department Prize in Fiction
Nastasya Popov
"Terminal Island"
English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Michael Chin
"River's Tale"
English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Joan Sergay
"The Weiner's Circle"
English Department Teaching Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant
Casey Caldwell
English Department Teaching Excellence Award
Kara Johnson
English Department Teaching Excellence Award
Hosannah Kreinke
Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
Jade Werner
Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
Chris Shirley
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"