2022-2023
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior
Emilio Cabral
Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
Olivia Behr
Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
Ava Raine
Outstanding Junior in Literature
Joy Zhao
Outstanding Senior in Literature
Honors Thesis Awards
Tanisha Tekriwal
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Jack Benson
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Devony Hof
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
April Li
“Almost Heaven”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Ian Castracane
“That Summer”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Nadira Pranatio
“Tall Glass Buildings”
AWARD: for Fiction
Asiyah Arastu
“Canines vs. Chickens”
AWARD: for Fiction
Lucy London
“A Pipeline Flows Both Ways”
AWARD: for Creative Essay
Ava Earl
“Flying”
AWARD: for Creative Essay
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Julia Catrambone
“HILMA”
AWARD: for a Creative Writing Essay
Abby Hsiao
“Land as Teacher: A Review of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
James Eder
“No Sweeter Fat: Walt Whitman and Food”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
Bella Gibb
“Race, Feminism, and The Illusion of Girl Power in 10 Things I Hate About You”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
Maia Pandey
“The Funniest Truths: Untraditional Masculinity in Bringing up Baby”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
Rachel Lin
“The Art of Womanhood in Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Woman”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
Yong-Yu Huang
“This Isn't Personal: Punishment and Resistance in Burn! and Green Island”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Sriman Narayanan
“come, voyager”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Noah Rabinovitch
“Odes and Elegies”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Poetry
Ysa Quiballo
“an arm's reach”
AWARD: for Literary Media
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Natalie Jarrett
“Sonnet for Dead Rappers”
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Mary Kinzie Prizes
Grace Valaskovic
“What Makes Up a Woman”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Ahlaam Moeldina
“On Taking Space”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction, Honorable Mention
April Li
“粥”
AWARD: for Fiction
Ahlaam Moledina
“As an Alternative for Dying”
AWARD: for Poetry
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Eva Herscowitz
“Radical Reimagining: Double V and Acceptable Violence in Langston Hughes’ “Simple Stories””
Bobby Yalam
“Heavenly Whores: Exalting the Abject in Genet’s The Screens”
William T. Faricy Awards
Yong-Yu Huang
“Dear Vincent”
AWARD: for Poetry
J. Scott Scholarship
Aleah Vega