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2017-2018

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Co-Winners

Nicole Wallace “The First Incident”

Laura Roth “Book I” & “Book II”

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Co-Winners

Anna  Kubacsek “Hearing Friction: Soundscapes of Encounter in the Imperial Modernism of Conrad and Forster”

Taylor Mikulski “The Name of the Dream: American Paradox in the Works of Steve Erickson”

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior Major in Creative Writing

Olivia Harpel

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction Essay

First Place

Jason Mast “The Beautiful and Breaking Gay Boys of Reddit”

Second Place

Matt Lenz “Please Try Not to Blink”

Third Place

Alex Dickey “My Father Gave Me Two Faces”

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Writing in Poetry

Co-Winners

Ryan Varadi “Elegy of Absence”

Tiffany Wu “Chinese to English Dictionary”

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Critical Essay

Erin Dunbar “The Process of Recording and Re-Inhabiting Memory in Les Plages d’Agnès and Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing

Irina Huang

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Literature

Co-Winners

Pascale Carrel

Evelyn MacPherson

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior Major in Literature

Helen Murphy

Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction

Madison Fiedler
“The Daughter”

English Department Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Sylvano Caruso
“Lies and Lace”

English Department Prize for Fiction

Mingxia Lim
“Aphorisms”

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place Co-Winners

Grace Gay “Caring and Feeding of the Dead”

Julian Kanagy “Aubade”

Second Place Co-Winners

Emily Jahn “Ballad of Nani's Earrings”

Laila Francis “Covenant”

Tara Shirvaikar “Nani's Earrings”

Third Place

Marielle Issa “Covenant”

Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize for Best Essay on Psychological or Psychoanalytical Interpretation of a Literary Text

Claire Pak
“On Mediating Absent Trauma”

Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper

Ari Mostow
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas as a Critique of the West”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature

Co-Winners

Nicole Kempis "He Crossed an Invisible Line: Constructing Proximity to Nature in Thoreau’s Journal and Herzog’s Grizzly Man

Laila Francis “External Histories Erasing the Personal”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on British Literature

Matt Lenz
“Molly as an Example of Sex-Positive Feminism: Interpreting Ulysses in the #MeToo Era”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Global English

Evelyn MacPherson
“The Arabian Storyteller’s Fight against Orientalism: A Thousand and One Knives, Shahrazad and the Voice of the Iraqi Citizen”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory

Co-Winners

Lois Biggs “Paranoid and Reparative Desire in Proust”

Emily Feng “The Immortal Immortelles: Reading Nature as a Dialogue Between the Eternal and the Transient”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper in Literature

First Place

Daniella Martino “Constructing a Memorial: An Exploration of Nostalgia in Benj. F. Taylor’s Songs of Yesterday

Second Place

Megan Beach “Shape Shifting and Genre Bending in Lucy Larcom’s Childhood Songs”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction

Allison Zanolli
“Route 6”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction

Co-Winners

Shane McKeon “Pen Pals”

Irina Huang “Messy”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media

First Place

Katie Cavanaugh “Your First NFL Game”

Second Place

Faalon Andrews “Chicago: A Guided Tour”

Third Place

Katherine Swanson “Star Wars: It's a Generational Thing”

Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media

Shane McKeon
"Sound essay on Lil Peep"

Scott Clark Scholarship for Aptitude in Creative Writing

Chase Doggett

Jean Meyer Aloe Prize from the Academy of American Poets

Celia Hauw
“Merdeka”

Robert Mayo Prize for Best English 300 Paper

Tiffany Wu
“True Newness: Deconstructing Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler