Meet Our 2020 Honors Students and Prize Winners

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS

Michaela Anthony – Honors in Literature – The One Ring: Medieval Romance, Mythological Femininity, and the Post-War Domestic Ideal in J.R.R. Tolkien

Nadalyn Bangura – Honors in Creative Writing – Upline

Amanda Barraza-Murphy – Honors in Literature – The Splendid Invasion: Domestic Goods and the Uncanny in Lady Audley’s Secret

Erika Barrios – Honors in Literature – Undoing the Terms of Accuracy: Exploring Language Technology in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosa Alcalá

Tamara Bruha – Honors in Literature – “Via a Signal Bypass:” Vocaloid Aesthetics and the Case of Spinal Fluid Explosion Girl

Suzanna DePeri – Honors in Literature – “Dangerous Terrorist Angela Davis’”: Political Imprisonment and Autobiography

Zeina Elhanbaly – Honors in Creative Writing – Not That Kind of Woman

Amy Liang – Honors in Creative Writing – Sonata

Julia Morgenstern – Honors in Literature – Foreign Diseases, Captive Women: Negative Cosmopolitanism in Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves and The Life of Charlotta du Pont

Maya Pearson – Honors in Creative Writing – Safety Behaviors

Sloane Scott – Honors in Creative Writing – One Theory of Time

Rachael Vargas – Honors in Creative Writing – Ask Ash

Allison Zanolli – Honors in Creative Writing – Headgirl

Best Honors Theses

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Best Senior and Junior in Literature & Creative Writing

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior in Literature

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Literature

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing

WRITING AWARDS

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay in Literature, pre 1830

Faricy Award for Poetry

Helen G. Scott Prize for a Critical Essay on the Short Story

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Edwin L. Shuman Fiction Award and Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on American Literature

Robert Mayo Prize for Best English 300 Paper

Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Digital Media

Helen G. Scott Prize for Literary Media

Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper

Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets

Mary Kinzie Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction

Mary Kinzie Prize for Poetry

Mary Kinzie Prize for Fiction

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature