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)"