Departmental Honors
Grace Baik – Honors in Creative Writing – Ada Blackjack: Epic of the North
Gabriela Czochara – Honors in Literature – Sowing the Seeds of Imperialism: Pigs, Families, and Colonial Trauma in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Craig Santos Perez’s “I eat therefore I SPAM”
Celine Fitzpatrick – Honors in Creative Writing – Untitled
Melissa Gauger – Honors in Literature – Now That’s What I call Discipline! Empire, Identity, and Otherness in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus<
Grace Gay – Honors in Creative Writing – INNOCENT BLOOD
Caroline Hsu – Honors in Literature – Strangest Things: Nostalgia vs. Representation in “Kids on Bikes” Media
Zoë Huettl – Honors in Creative Writing – Medical History
Lauren Katz – Honors in Literature – Revolutionary Women: Literary Performativity, Classical Pseudonyms, and the Public Sphere in the Correspondence of Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren
David Lee – Honors in Creative Writing – The Escapist
Michael Lenart – Honors in Creative Writing – The Underground Dwellers of Hoagie, Illinois
Sam Nguyen – Honors in Literature – When Women Teach: Female Pedagogues on the Early Modern Stage
Carson Stewart – Honors in Creative Writing – Hopper
Christian Thorsberg – Honors in Creative Writing – Boris
Elizabeth Vogt – Honors in Creative Writing – Once Removed
Janelle Yanez – Honors in Creative Writing – Rules of Protest
Best Honors Theses
Co-winner – Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Co-winner – Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Co-winner – Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Co-winner – Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Outstanding Juniors and Seniors in Literature and Creative Writing
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
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 Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Helen G. Scott Prize for Digital Media
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Poetry and the Mary Kinzie Prize for Fiction
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Keerti Gopal – Edwin L. Shuman Fiction Award
Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Critical Essay
Helen G. Scott Prize for Writing Excellence in Creative Writing
Co-winner – Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Digital Media
Mary Kinzie Prize for Poetry
Robert Mayo Prize for best English 300 Paper
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Mary Kinzie Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Co-winner – Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Digital Media
Faricy Award for Poetry
Helen G. Scott Prize for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction