DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

2024-2025

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Distinguished Achievement by a Junior and Senior

Maggie Munday Odom
AWARD: for Distinguished Achievement by a Junior in Creative Writing

Roy Zhu
AWARD: for Distinguished Achievement by a Senior in Creative Writing

Mary Caruso
Yong-Yu Huang
Megumi Oishi
Ella Waffner
AWARDS: for Distinguished Achievement by a Junior in Literature
 
Conner Dejecacion
Caroline Drapeau
Iris Ely 
AWARDS: for Distinguished Achievement by a Senior in Literature

EDWIN L. SHUMAN AWARD FOR Honors Thesis

Emily Hancock
"The Axe Handle Remembers the Tree"
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Emily Cho
"Breakfast, My Treat"
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Caroline Drapeau
"'Humble instrument . . . street god . . . companion . . . appendage’?: Domesticated Animals in the Victorian Realist Novel"
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Damian Franchere
"Becoming Stone, Becoming Self: The Elusive Horizon of Authenticity in Bachmann and Coetzee"
HONORABLE MENTION: for Honors Thesis in Literature

Edwin L. Shuman Awards

Cole Morgan 
"Sherwood"
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
 
Emily Hancock
"The Axe Handle Remembers the Tree"
AWARD: for Fiction

Haley Kleinman
"Snowflake"
HONORABLE MENTION: for Fiction

Livia Ford
"What I Told the Rain"
HONORABLE MENTION: for Fiction

Helen G. Scott Prizes

Caroline Cooper
“The Dissolution of Individuality in The Apartment in Bab el-Louk"
 AWARD: for Best Critical Essay

Damian Franchere 
“Gothic Agency: Austen’s Defense of the Novel Against Wollstonecraft’s Critique"
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay in Literature, pre-1830

Faith Magiera
"Northanger Abbey: A Fictional House of Jane's (And Catherine’s) Own Making"
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay in Literature, pre-1830
 
William Kramer 
“Amour, Ame, Amitié: Montaigne’s Friendship as a Bond of Heart and Soul"
HONORABLE MENTION: for Critical Essay in Literature, pre-1830

Mary Caruso
“From Carnal to Ethnographic Knowledge: Translating Gender in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim"
AWARD: for Best Research Paper on Literature

Conner Dejecacion
“Asian Interpolation into Techno-Dystopia in Tropic of Orange and The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on American Literature

Jack Baker
“Specters of American Slavery in Appropriate”
HONORABLE MENTION: for Critical Essay on American Literature

 Caroline Drapeau 
“Keeping Characters: Reconfiguring Characterological Conventions in On Such a Full Sea”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory

Iris Ely
“'It’s a Long Way Down’: Narrativizing Trauma in OMORI”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on Literature and New Media

Isabela Camargos
“Philosophical Blindness:  Karl Marx's Perspective on Ideology”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper

Kiki Sikora
“Sizzle"
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction

Colin Giroux
"The Dietrich"
HONORABLE MENTION: for Creative Writing in Fiction

Nya Ku 
“With a Hand Over Our Eyes"
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Poetry

Olivia Heimann
“The Blessing of Locked Doors"
AWARD: for a Creative Nonfiction Essay

 Jinhee Heo 
“LOOP”
AWARD: for Literary Media

Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize

Roy Zhu
 "Stepping Into Virginia Woolf’s Room, Briefly, Before Waking"
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets

Mary Kinzie Prizes

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper 

Katherine Yun
"Narrative Forms as Counters to Consumerist Simulation: Discussions of Postmodern Identity in Don DeLillo’s White Noise"
AWARD: for Best English 300 Paper

Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize for an Essay in the Psychological or Psychoanalytic Interpretation of a Literary Text

Nastia Goddard
"Playing with Dolls: How The Lost Daughter Challenges the Notions of Ideal Motherhood"

William T. Faricy Awards

Amaya Mikolic-Berrios
"Elegy to a Dream"
AWARD: for Poetry, First Place
 
Livia Ford
"Splintering"
AWARD: for Poetry, Second Place
 
Lana Alnajm
"Copper Coins"
AWARD: for Poetry, Third Place

J. Scott Clark Scholarship for Aptitude in Creative Writing

Natalia Tapia-Moreno
"The Education of a Mexican Girl in Two Essays"

Barbara Foster Schutz Award for Poetry