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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"