2015-2016
Edwin L. Shuman Award: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Daniel Moynihan
"Strive"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior in Creative Writing
Erin Holiday
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Junior in Creative Writing
Sophia Stein
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Junior in Creative Writing
Zoe Call
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Manal Saleh
"Feminine Inversion as Supernatural Perversion: The Transgressive Woman as Witch in Early Modern English Drama"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior in Literature
Caroline Brown
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior in Literature
Bethany Mueller
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior in Literature
Manal Saleh
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior in Literature
Eilis Lombard
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Junior in Literature
Karen Gwee
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Critical Essay
Michael Levy
"Her Speech is Nothing"
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"
Robert A. Dentler Prize for Best Essay on Poetry, first place
Mary Bradford
"Meeting and Confrontation: The Eternal Stone Object in Keats and Mandelstam"
Robert A. Dentler Prize for Best Essay on Poetry, second place
Emma Montgomery
"Clarity in Chaos: Expression of Identity in Haryette Mullen's Muse and Drudge"
Robert A. Dentler Prize for Best Essay on Poetry, third place
Jack Drumm
"The Haunted Poet: Emily Dickinson and M. NourbeSe Philip as Mouthpieces for the Dead
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for best English 298 paper
Katie Rim
"Narratives of Guilt: An Interpretation of Mansfield and James"
Robert Dentler Memorial Prize for Best Poem
James Amick
"Cutting the Whale Lines"
Faricy Award for Poetry, first place
Megan Pan
"On Seeing My Father's Abandoned Hometown"
Faricy Award for Poetry, second place
Rebecca Ehrmann
"Art World"
Faricy Award for Poetry, third place
Mahalia Sobhani
"Girl With Her Hair Cut Short"
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Poets Prize
Rachel Girty
"Interior"
English Department Prize in Fiction
Erin Holiday
"Reserves"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Fiction
Haley Boston
"Paul, The Pool Boy"
Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction
Sophia Stein
"Something Else"
English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Mahalia Sobhani
"Bitch"
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"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction, first place
Tomer Cherki
"Bobetzivye"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction, second place, co-winner
Ana Duverge
"The Authentic Blend"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction, second place, co-winner
Sophia Stein
"After Ivan"
J. Scott Clark Award for Excellence in Creative Writing
Fatima Gomez
English Department Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Ekta Shah
"The American Enlightenment's Voice of Resaon: Hearing Echoed in The Federalist Papers"
English Department Prize for an Outstanding Critical Essay
David Kaye
"Homo Amans: Natural Loving-Kindness as Thomas Hardy's 'True Religion'"
English Department Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant
Hannah Chaskin
English Department Award Teaching Excellence Award
Megan Fritz
English Department Teaching Excellence Award
Seth Swanner
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