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'"