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2015-2016

Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Poets 

Rachel Girty 
"Interior"

J. Scott Clark Award for Excellence in Creative Writing

Fatima Gomez

Robert A. Dentler Memorial Prizes

Best Essay on Poetry

First Place
Mary Bradford 
"Meeting and Confrontation: The Eternal Stone Object in Keats and Mandelstam"

Second Place
Emma Montgomery 
"Clarity in Chaos: Expression of Identity in Haryette Mullen's Muse and Drudge"

Third Place
Jack Drumm 
"The Haunted Poet: Emily Dickinson and M. NourbeSe Philip as Mouthpieces for the Dead

Best Poem

James Amick 
"Cutting the Whale Lines"

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place
Megan Pan 
"On Seeing My Father's Abandoned Hometown"

Second Place
Rebecca Ehrmann 
"Art World"

Third Place
Mahalia Sobhani 
"Girl With Her Hair Cut Short"

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 298 Paper

Katie Rim 
"Narratives of Guilt: An Interpretation of Mansfield and James"

Helen G. Scott Prizes

Best Essay on Literature and New Media

Mackenzie Broderick
"Damsels Causing Distress: Reimagining Medieval Womanhood"

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'"

Best Critical Essay on American Literature

First Place
Marissa Ferrara 
"Man vs. Genre: Vincent Vega as Pulp Fiction's Tragic Hero"

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!

Best Critical Essay on Pre-1798 Literature

Marie Peeples 
"In Lust They Burn: Pre- and Postlapsarian Sexuality in Paradise Lost"

Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory

Noam Shemtov 
"As Word Becomes Spirit: Mimesis, Tragedy and the Modern Theology of Middlemarch"

Best Fiction Essay

Haley Boston 
"Paul, The Pool Boy"

Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

First Place
Julia Clark-Riddell 
"Lizardwoman Seeks Treeman"

Second Place
Nastasya Popov 
"The Mother Art"

Edwin L. Shuman Awards

Best Senior in Creative Writing

Erin Holiday 

Best Junior in Creative Writing

Sophia Stein

Zoe Call 

Best Senior in Literature

Caroline Brown 

Bethany Mueller 

Manal Saleh 

Eilis Lombard 

Best Junior in Literature

Karen Gwee 

Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Daniel Moynihan 
"Strive"

Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Manal Saleh 
"Feminine Inversion as Supernatural Perversion: The Transgressive Woman as Witch in Early Modern English Drama" 

Best Critical Essay

Michael Levy 
"Her Speech is Nothing"

Best Fiction Essay

Sophia Stein 
"Something Else"

Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

First Place
Tomer Cherki 
"Bobetzivye"

Second Place co-winners
Ana Duverge 
"The Authentic Blend"

Sophia Stein 
"After Ivan"

English Department Prizes

Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Mahalia Sobhani 
"Bitch"

Best Fiction Essay

Erin Holiday 
"Reserves"

Best Research Paper on Literature

Ekta Shah
"The American Enlightenment's Voice of Resaon: Hearing Echoed in The Federalist Papers"

Outstanding Critical Essay

David Kaye
"Homo Amans: Natural Loving-Kindness as Thomas Hardy's 'True Religion'"