2025-2026
Helen G. Scott Award for Distinguished Achievement by a Senior Literature Major
Yong-Yu Huang
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Distinguished Achievement by a Junior Literature Major
Alex Huerta
Faith Magiera
Medina Miranda
AWARDS: for Distinguished Achievement by a Junior in Literature
Helen G. Scott AWARD FOR Honors Thesis
Olivia Mofus
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Julia Yanosik-Perez
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Ella Waffner
"Weyward Words: Performing the Witch, Performing Politics in The Duchess of Malfi, Richard III, and Macbeth"
AWARD: for Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
Riley Meyer"Ninth Circle"AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction EssayPatricia Nwoko
"Malls and Marriage"
AWARD: for Fiction
Rachel Cho
“Houses, Interiors, & Spaces: Subverting the Patriarchal Threshold"
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay in Literature
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Nick Traficante
AWARD: for Distinguished Achievement by a Senior in Creative Writing
Sydney Gaw
AWARD: for Distinguished Achievement by a Junior in Creative Writing
Lucia Rodriguez
“Resurrecting Mrs. Tilney: Gothic Temporality and Authority in Austen's Northanger Abbey"
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay in Literature, pre-1830
Medina Miranda
“Mothers of Shame: Nationalist imagery, didacticism, and affect in So Many Hungers!"
AWARD: for Best Research Paper on Literature
“Beyond the Traffic in Women: Rethinking Kinship in Walker's The Color Purple”
Andrew Joseph
“Underwriting Native Origins in The Scarlet Letter”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Alex Huerta
“Making House, Not Home: Observation and the Colonial Site of Labor in Mansfield Park”
AWARD: for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
“Act VI: A Homoerotic Reimagining of Twelfth Night”
“Immigration”
AWARD: for Experimental Critical Forms
Sofia-Annette Calero
“Natural Beauty and the Ascent of the Soul”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Mia Schmitt
"Midnight Cleanups"
Honorable Mention: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Grace Yu
"Nothing, Except Lumps and Handprints"
Honorable Mention: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Katelyn Cai
“Kill a Bear"
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Libby Nook
“Elephants"
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Poetry
Nicholas Rose
“Of Chalk and Shadows"
AWARD: for a Creative Nonfiction Essay
Atarah Israel
“A People Lost: Understanding Black Hebrew Israelites”
AWARD: for Literary Media
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Maya Ventura
"Curanderismo"
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Mary Kinzie Prizes
Sophia Bella"People in Motion"
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Navya Singh
"The Horizon Bleeds Red and White"
AWARD: for Fiction
James Frazier-Wilson
"20% Off Ear Piercing at the Great American Mall"
AWARD: for Poetry
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Andrew Joseph
"Negotiating the Indigenous Racial Imagination in the Works of Toni Morrison"
AWARD: for Best English 300 Paper
Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize for an Essay in the Psychological or Psychoanalytic Interpretation of a Literary Text
Eliza Tucker
"I Can See Right Through Both of You: Aging, Fame and the Uncanny Double in Kelly Link's 'I Can See Right Through You'"
William T. Faricy Awards
Isabella Dumenigo"This Is What We Do with Horses"
AWARD: for Poetry, First Place
Quinn Wang
"the night we turned seventeen"
AWARD: for Poetry, Second PlaceLinda Kong
"Etude to Reckless Abandon"
AWARD: for Poetry, Third PlaceJ. Scott Clark Scholarship for Aptitude in Creative Writing
Brad Sontay-Tzun