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”