2016-2017
Edwin L Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction Essay
James D. Amick
"My Father is Sean Spicer"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Co-winners
Emma Hill "While I'm In Between"
Danny Kelleher "Attack on the Clutter"
Cara Fromm "Beneath the Calm"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Ann Ho
"Redressing Modernism: The Poetry of Grace Nichols, 1984-2009"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Critical Essay
Daniella Martino
"Collatine the Publisher"
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
Lydia Weber
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Literature
Paige Hellman
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
Julia Clark-Riddell
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior in Literature
Payton Danner
Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction
First Place
Sophia Stein "Every Sentence was a Prophecy"
Second Place
Emma Gordon "You and I Are Like Sponges"
Third Place
Maxine Whitely "About: Corren Funeral Services, Inc."
English Department Best Instructor Prize
Co-Winners
Anne Boemler
Nora Eltahawy
English Department Best TA prize
Clay Cogswell
English Department Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Nastasya Popov
"Orphans"
English Department Prize for Critical Nonfiction
Megan Beach
"The Case Against Binaries"
English Department Prize for Fiction
First Place
Lydia Weber "Abyssinia"
Second Place
Eli Sugerman "Taureau"
Third Place
Allessandra DiCorato "Too Soon"
Faricy Award for Poetry
First Place, Co-Winners
Caroline Levy "I Am Not America"
Kyndal Thomas "Still Malleable"
Second Place
Jessica Ogwumike "Piedade, Cononized"
Third Place
Nicole Wallace "#72 North Avenue"
Helen G. Scott for Best Critical Essay on Literature, pre-1830
Payton Danner
"Between Vulnerability and Strength: On the Woman's Poetry of Epistolae Duorum Amantium"
Helen G. Scott for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Zining Mok
"Duets Across Space and Time: Beloved as a Postracial and Postcolonial Text"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature
Solveig Herzum
"The Game of War and Love"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English
Ann Ho
"To See the Rainbow: The Postcolonial Pastoral in Gcina Mhlophe's Sometimes When it Rains"
Helen G. Scott for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Co-Winners
James D. Amick "How the Enemy Feels Pain: Coping (or Not Coping) with Trauma in Redeployment and The Corpse Washer"
Mingxia Lim "Confronting the Present: Depictions of Millennial Berlin in Contemporary German Film"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Anna Kubacsek
"Heart of Darkness: The Contact Zone Between Orality & Literacy"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay
First Place
Isabella Procassini "My Mother's Children"
Second Place
Mahalia Sobhani "Quality Alteration"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Fiction
First Place
Nicole Wallace "From One Generation to the Next"
Second Place
Rex Shannon "As the Din Raged On"
Third Place
Katherine Swanson "Good Company"
Helen G. Scott Prize for First-Year Seminar Paper
First Place
Benjamin Lewis "The Question of Monstrosity in Marie de France's Bisclavret"
Second Place
Maxine Whitely "Pinpricks"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media
Vivian Xu
"Aesop's Fables: A Digital Remediation"
Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media
Sylvana Caruso
"Beanperson"
Scott Clark Scholarship in Creative Writing
Nora Harris
Jean Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
Alanna Hickey
Jean Meyer Aloe Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Alexandra Dayton
"On Anguish"
Robert Mayo Prize for best English 300 Paper
Co-Winners
Solveig Herzum "A Bond of Unspoken Sisterhood"
Lydia Wuorinen "The Black Sheep's Book of the Dead"