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2018-2019

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

Ella J. Lombard  "WILD SOUND"

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature

First Place

Erin Linn Leary  "(Re)imagining the Upper Mississippi River Valley: From the Colonial Roots of Climate Change to Contemporary Indigenous Artistic Interventions"

Second Place

Daniella Francis Martino  “John Donne’s ‘Great Propensity to Popery’: Satyres of Imitation”

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction Essay

First Place

Gabrielle Grossman  "What Belongs to Us"

Second Place

Asa Hiken  "The Wail of a Thousand Sons"

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Writing in Poetry

Ryan Varadi  "The Big Empty"

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Critical Essay

First Place

Erin Leary " Lithic Longevity and Human (Im)mortality: Stone as a Symbol of Deep Time in Horace Smith’s 'On a Stupendous Leg of Granite' and Ed Roberson’s 'We Look at the World to See the Earth'"

Second Place

Alena Prcela "The Anthropocene Effect in 'Beachy Head'"

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Fiction

Celine Fitzpatrick "Crossing the Swamp"

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing

Sloane Scott

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Literature

Julia Morgenstern

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

Skyler Poel

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior Major in Literature

Evelyn MacPherson

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place

Ella J. Lombard  "Lilith Sonnet Sequence"

Second Place

Laila Francis "Queen Esther"

Third Place

Sydney Shaw "Faith"

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

Claire Pak  "'Ghosts of the Past': Remembrance, Revenge and Delayed Mourning in Haider"

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

Nathan Omprasadham  "Shaw and Shelley"

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literature, pre 1830

First Place

Sam Nguyen  "'Comparisons Are Odious': Likeness, Differences, and the Ineffability of Desire in John Donne’s 'Sapho to Philaenis'"

Second Place

Madison Fiedler  "What About the Lesbians?: The Impossibility of Lesbianism in 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'"

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

First Place

Asa Hiken  "The Anxiety of Age in the Age of Anxiety"

Second Place

Harley Kirchhoff  "Separation from the Eye of Society"

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

Michael Lenart  "Pockets Full of Home"

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

Marielle Issa  "Myths and Hieroglyphs: The Promise of Arabic in Craig Thompson's Habibi"

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

Pascale Carrel  "Bodies, Language, and Understanding Motherhood in Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas"

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature

First Place

Cameron Omori "Saucy and overbold": Middleton, Macbeth, and Editorial Influence on Interpretation

Second Place

Emily Baker "Un-Editing Capitalization in Shakespeare’s Sonnets for Accessibility"

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction

Dora Grossman-Weir "The Great Melt"

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Nonfiction

First Place

Rachel Hawley "My Peer-Reviewed Exorcism"

Second Place

Rhett Hoskinson "Caging Fire"

Third Place

Mathew Benson "The Tragedy at Goose Lake"

Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media

Annabel Dafiaghor  "Crowned"

Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media

Erika Barrios "'Information Age' Poetics: A Critical Analysis of Mónica de la Torre’s Public Domain"

J. Scott Clark Scholarship for Aptitude in Creative Writing

Elly Rivera

Jean Meyer Aloe Prize from the Academy of American Poets

Hannah Hall "Elegy In the Shadows"

Robert Mayo Prize for Best English 300 Paper

Celine Fitzpatrick "Projections, Deflections, and Imperfections: the Mirror Images of Hedwig and Passing"

The Mary Kinzie Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Annabel Dafiaghor "Boys"

The Mary Kinzie Prize for Fiction

Mason McVeigh "Class 5"

The Mary Kinzie Prize for Poetry

Sloane Scott "Ode to Times Beach, Missouri (1925-1985)"