2019-2020
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior
Grace Gay
Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
Alice Yang
Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
Sam Nguyen
Outstanding Junior in Literature
Amanda Barraza-Murphy
Outstanding Senior in Literature
Honors Thesis Awards
Zeina Elhanbaly
“Not That Kind of Woman”
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Sloane Scott
“One Theory of Time”
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing, Honorable Mention
Erika Barrios
“Undoing the Terms of Accuracy: Exploring Language Technology in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosa Alcalá”
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
Mega Dafiaghor
“Goodbye to Nothing”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Carson Stewart
“For the Trees”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay, Honorable Mention
Celine Fitzpatrick
“Heart of a Dog”
AWARD: for Fiction
Julia Morgenstern
“Foreign Diseases, Captive Women: Negative Cosmopolitanism in Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves and The Life of Charlotta du Pont”
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Susanna Kemp
“Finders, Keepers”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Jake Curtis
“A Plea For Voyeurs”
AWARD: for Digital Media, Honorable Mention
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Elynnor Sandefer
“Colonial Binaries and Joy Harjo’s The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay on post-1830 Literature
Erika Barrios
“Maternal Mediation in María Cristina Mena’s The Birth of the God of War”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay on the Short Story
Yetong Li
“Fantomina of the Opera”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Celine Fitzpatrick
“Down by the Water: Dry Baptism and the Subversion of Religious Symbolism in Go Tell It on the Mountain”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Claire Pak
“Localization and the Imagined America in the Mother Series”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Shealyn Abbott
“Cold Hearted: Humoral Theory and the Impacts of Grief in Hester Pulter’s Upon the Death of My Dear and Lovely Daughter”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on pre-1830 Literature
Alice Yang
“Disease and Dickens: Mental Manias and Miasmas in Bleak House and Little Dorrit”
AWARD: for Best Research Paper on Literature
Elizabeth Vogt
“Small Everyday Objects”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Kandise LeBlanc
“A Mother’s Love”
AWARD: for Literary Media
Annabel Heacock
“Twinnies”
AWARD: for Literary Media, Honorable Mention
Katherine O’Donnell
“The Family Upon the Hill”
AWARD: in Fiction, Honorable Mention
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Lennart Nielsen
“Impressions of Sicily”
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Grace Baik
“Headache”
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets, Honorable Mention
Mary Kinzie Prizes
Katherine Packard
“Lost”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Ahlaam Moeldina
“On Taking Space”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction, Honorable Mention
Lydia Wuorinen
“A Texan Summer: Part One”
AWARD: for Fiction
Tanisha Tekriwal
“Baby Spine”
AWARD: for Fiction, Honorable Mention
Jon Wolf
“Parable of the Interior Plains”
AWARD: for Poetry
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Melissa Gauger
“Jane Austen’s Guidebook to Fear”
William T. Faricy Awards
Nadalyn Bangura
“Interview Eight”
AWARD: for Poetry
Sloane Scott
“Three Poems”
AWARD: for Poetry, Honorable Mention