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2019-2020

Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets

FIRST PRIZE
Lennart Nielsen

“Impressions of Sicily”

Honorable Mention
Grace Baik
“Headache” 

William T. Faricy Award for Poetry

FIRST PRIZE
Nadalyn Bangura
“Interview Eight”

Honorable Mention
Sloane Scott
“Three Poems”

Mary Kinzie Prizes

Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

FIRST PRIZE
Katherine Packard
“Lost”

Honorable Mention
Ahlaam Moeldina
“On Taking Space”

Best Fiction Essay

FIRST PRIZE
Lydia Wuorinen

“A Texan Summer: Part One”

Honorable Mention
Tanisha Tekriwal
“Baby Spine”

Best Poem

Jon Wolf
“Parable of the Interior Plains”

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper

Melissa Gauger
“Jane Austen’s Guidebook to Fear”

Helen G. Scott Prizes

Best Critical Essay on post-1830 Literature

Elynnor Sandefer
“Colonial Binaries and Joy Harjo’s The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window

Best Critical Essay on the Short Story

Erika Barrios
“Maternal Mediation in María Cristina Mena’s The Birth of the God of War

Best English First-Year Seminar Paper

Yetong Li
Fantomina of the Opera”

Best Critical Essay on American Literature

Celine Fitzpatrick
“Down by the Water: Dry Baptism and the Subversion of Religious Symbolism in Go Tell It on the Mountain

Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory

Claire Pak
“Localization and the Imagined America in the Mother Series”

Best Critical Essay on pre-1830 Literature

Shealyn Abbott
“Cold Hearted: Humoral Theory and the Impacts of Grief in Hester Pulter’s Upon the Death of My Dear and Lovely Daughter

Best Research Paper on Literature

Alice Yang
“Disease and Dickens: Mental Manias and Miasmas in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

Award for Creative Writing in Fiction

FIRST PRIZE
Elizabeth Vogt

“Small Everyday Objects”

Honorable Mention
Katherine O’Donnell
“The Family Upon the Hill”

Award for Literary Media

FIRST PRIZE
Kandise LeBlanc

“A Mother’s Love”

Honorable Mention
Annabel Heacock

“Twinnies”

 

 

Edwin L. Shuman Awards

Outstanding Junior

Grace Gay
Creative Writing

Sam Nguyen
Literature

Outstanding Senior

Alice Yang
Creative Writing

Amanda Barraza-Murphy
Literature

Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

FIRST PRIZE
Mega Dafiaghor

“Goodbye to Nothing”

Honorable Mention
Carson Stewart
“For the Trees”

Best Fiction Essay

Celine Fitzpatrick
“Heart of a Dog”

Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Julia Morgenstern
“Foreign Diseases, Captive Women: Negative Cosmopolitanism in Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves and The Life of Charlotta du Pont

Best Digital Media Essay

FIRST PRIZE
Susanna Kemp

“Finders, Keepers”

Honorable Mention
Jake Curtis
“A Plea For Voyeurs”  

English Department Awards

Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

FIRST PRIZE
 Zeina Elhanbaly
“Not That Kind of Woman”

Honorable Mention
Sloane Scott
“One Theory of Time”

Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Erika Barrios
“Undoing the Terms of Accuracy: Exploring Language Technology in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosa Alcalá”