2021-2022
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior
Luke Notkin
Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
Abeje Schnake
Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
Seunghee Chang
Outstanding Junior in Literature
Joy Zhao
Outstanding Junior in Literature
Nathan Omprasadham
Outstanding Senior in Literature
Sarah Fernández Tabet
Outstanding Senior in Literature
Honors Thesis Awards
Katherine Moore
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Mariama Pouye
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Nathan Omprasadham
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
Eve Leupold
“Two Fleabags”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Emilio Cabral
“Pas de Deux”
AWARD: for Fiction
Stephanie Markowitz
“Lifeboat”
AWARD: for Fiction
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Roy Zhu
“Native Futures and Pasts: Indigenizing the Southeast”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Laurisa Sastoque
“Be Dammed: The Global Hydrosphere in Opposition to the Hydraulic Empire”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Nathan Omprasadham
“A Backwards Evanescence”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Madeline Powell
“Aphra, Actresses, and Assault: How the Emergence of Restoration-Era Actresses and the Reformation of Sexual Assault Laws Inform Aphra Behn’s The Rover”
AWARD: for Best Research Paper on Literature
August Moody
“No One Likes to Grieve”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Natalie Jarrett
“Aphasia; Sonnets For Dead Rappers: MF DOOM; Zuhitsu”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Poetry
Olivia Putnam
“Adult Supervision”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Eva Herscowitz
“Tear Up The Tulips”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Noah Rabinovitch
“Florida Man”
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Claire Lu
“Gendering of the public and private sphere in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”"