DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

2023-2024

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior

Amaya Mikolic-Berrios
AWARD: Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
 
Sriman Narayanan
Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
 
Conor Dejecacion
Caroline Drapeau
Outstanding Juniors in Literature
 
Lucy Basile 
Outstanding Senior in Literature

Honors Thesis Awards

Emilio Cabral
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
 
Stephanie Markowitz 
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Edwin L. Shuman Awards

Emily Cho  
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
 
Levy Deckard
AWARD: for Fiction

Helen G. Scott Prizes

Nafi Soumare
“Domestic Bliss”
AWARD: for a Creative Nonfiction Essay
 
Ariel Gurevich
“Taming Garbo"
 AWARD: for a Critical Essay 
 
Caroline Drapeau 
“Beestes and briddes koude speke and synge”: The Destabilizing Effects of Nonhuman Language in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale"
AWARD: for a Critical Essay in Literature, pre-1830, first
 
Ella Waffner 
“"Plagued in Art": The Duchess of Malfi as a Meta-Theatrical Witch Trial"
AWARD: for a Critical Essay in Literature, pre-1830, second
 
Dan Murrieta
“Metal Gear Solid 2’s Player-Centric Critique of Identification with Simulated Violence"
AWARD: Best Research Paper on Literature
 
Andres Buenahora 
“The Transcendent Colorism of Hattie McDaniel’s Diva”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay on American Literature
 
Ani Kabillio 
“Good Times vs the Good Life: How Good Times exercises the impasse to present a bright future whilst perpetuating the bleak present”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
 
Haarika Palacharla 
“The Deadly Logics of Patriarchy and Horror Movies”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper

Dayeon Son
“War through the eyes of a boy”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
 
Grace Yu 
“Korean Teacher" and other poems"
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Poetry
 
Ella Barnes 
“The Appointment”
AWARD: for Literary Media

Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize

Ilana Hutzler 
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets

Mary Kinzie Prizes

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper 

Faith Magiera
Nora Schilling
Ella Waffner
AWARDS: Best English 300 Paper

William T. Faricy Awards

Skye Tarshis
AWARD: for Poetry, First
 
Yong-Yu Huang
AWARD: for Poetry, Second
 
Kailey Morand
AWARD: for Poetry, Third

J. Scott Scholarship for Aptitude in Creative Writing

Cheyenne Clifton

Barbara Foster Schutz Award for Poetry