2024 English Celebration
Composition Awards
- Rhetorical Analysis - Rachel Dela Cruz, “The Barong Tagalog: A True Sense of Filipino Pride” (ENG 111, Camellia Azzi)
- Proposal Argument - Hannah Ware, “Examining the Systematic Mistreatment of Black Mothers and Infants” (ENG 111, Chelsea Hoskins)
- Remediated Argument - Mariant Solorzano, “Brown is Beautiful: Colorism in the Latinx Community” (ENG 111, Joe Squance)
- Best of 111 - Azure Kim, “Transgender Athletes in Martial Arts” (ENG 111, Emily Alexander)
- Best of 108 - Charlie Ha, “Is AI Ruining Chess?” (ENG 108, Irena Kola)
- Best of ENG 225 - Samantha Federici, “Swifties Speak: A Discourse Analysis of Taylor Swift's Fan Base” (ENG 225, Parisa Adlifar)
The Mary Jo Priest Awards in Professional Writing
- Becca Blanco - “A Mini-Ethnography of Bishop Cafe” (ENG 223, Emily Legg)
- Annabel Howe - “Kofenya: Observing Meaning and Rhetoric of Place in Oxford's Local Coffee Shop” (ENG 223, Emily Legg)
- Olivia Voelker - “Rhetorical Analysis of Greta Thunberg's Climate Address” (ENG 223, Amanda Stevens)
Greer Hepburn Awards
- First Prize - Savannah Perry, “Pivotal Presumptions: Little Miss Pageants”, Creative Nonfiction (ENG 323, Jen Sammons)
- Second Prize - Sophie Kwiatkowski, “Greenhawks Portfolio”, Journalism (Mentor: Sam Norton)
- Third Prize - Kendra Johnson, “Flesh and Bone”, Fiction (ENG 320, Margaret Luongo)
- Fourth Prize - Jessica Miller, “Not A Monster”, Creative Nonfiction (ENG 423, TaraShea Nesbit)
Robert F. Almy Awards
- Julia Beaumont, “The Common Thread of Queer Pastoralism: From Country-House to Cottage-Core” (ENG 435, Stefanie Dunning)
- Max Kaufman, “New Indian Mythology: Building Lagaan” (ENG 269, Anita Mannur)
Edward J. Montaine Awards
- First Prize: Olivia Patel, Journalism Portfolio
- Second Prize: Raquel Hirsch, Journalism Portfolio
- Third Prize: Max Kaufman, Excerpt from “Verlin Pulley: The Re-Making of a Man”, Creative Nonfiction (written independently)
The Daniel and Margaret Bookwalter Awards in Creative Writing
- Katherine Stefaniuk, “Hefner Museum” (ENG 226, Margaret Luongo)
- Kayla Angus, “The Median” (ENG 226, Jen Sammons)
The Linguistics Award
- Grace Williams - “A Linguistic Approach to the Reading Wars” (GER 219, John Jeep)
Gordon and Mary Wilson Scholarship
- Jaelyn Stewart - “Beware of the Deadly Linen: Othello’s Heavy Handkerchief as a Spectacle of Identity”, (ENG 373, Jim Bromley)
- Max Kaufman - “Stand At The River: Hope and Agency in Train To Pakistan”, (ENG 269, Anita Mannur)
- Rhese Voisard -”The Power of Unified Voices: Amplified For Advocacy”, (WGS 201, Kenna Neitch)
Craver - Overton Scholarship
- Valeri Hernandez-Godinez - “Black Women, Resistance, Resilience & Rejuvenation during Times of Crisis” (ENG 432, Tammy Brown)
Bill Moeller Scholarship
- Emma Estridge - “Life on Mars” (ENG 226, Jen Sammons)
Cathy S. Denny Memorial Scholarship
- Nya Hodge - “Who is the Black Collective We? & Who Gets to Answer This?: An Analysis of Up From Slavery by Booker T . Washington in Conversation with The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Chessnut and ‘Of Our Spiritual Strivings’ by W.E.B. Dubois”, (ENG 337, Cheryl Johnson)
Terry and Chris Baehr Scholarship
- Alaina Fitch - “Past the Enamel, Into the Bone” (ENG 232, Parisa Adlifar)
Robert Kettler Memorial Scholarship
- Annabel Howe - “ ‘My Best Thing’: Motherhood, Autonomy, and Trauma, in Toni Morison’s Beloved“, (ENG 232, Parisa Adlifar)
- Julia Beaumont - “Falsified Female Agency: The Patriarchal Past and Present of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, (ENG 386 Shakespeare On Stage-On Site)
2024 Departmental Honors
- Samuel Fouts - “X: Ecocriticism and Creative Writing through Exeter Poetry” (Mentor: Patrick Murphy)
- Abagail Grace Gibbs -"Sex Work on Screen: Analyzing Representations of Female Sexuality and Prostitution in 1960’s British (S)exploitation Films" (Mentor: Katie Johnson)
- Shr-Hua Moore - “Robert Walser and Genre” (Mentor: Keith Tuma)
Senior Prizes
Critical Essay
- Annah Hahn - “How Uncertainty Creates Queer Agency in Gallathea” (ENG 620, Jim Bromley)
- Ryan Rosu - “Happiest Season’s Queering of the Christmas Movie Genre” (UGSS project with Andy Rice)
Creative Work
- Eleanor Prytherch - “Marguerite” (written independently)
- Melanie Hamon - “A Compilation of Related Documents for the Internal Audit of the Body Organization following the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Normalization of Recurrent Corneal Erosions” (ENG 423, TaraShea Nesbit)
Public Argument
- Maddy Evans - “Au Natural” (written for UP Magazine)
- Abby Adamson - “Chappell Roan: Queer Pop’s Newest It Girl” (written for Redhawk Radio)
The Walter E. Havighurst Prize in Creative Writing
- Ava Shaffer
2024 Academy of American Poets
- Graduate Award | Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
- Matt Farley - “Two Cardinals”
- Undergraduate Award | Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
- Max Kaufman - “The Box”
Sigma Tau Delta - Professors of the Year
- Stefanie Dunning
- Anita Mannur
- Tom Romano
The Jordan-Goodman Graduate Awards
- Poetry: Hallie Fogarty - “Dyke Bar” and other poems
- Fiction: Samantha Stahlhut - “The Book of Violet”
- CNF: Xavier Prince - “On the N word” and other pieces
- Honorable Mention: Ty Young - “Selfish” and other pieces
Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award
- Hallie Fogarty
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards in Creative Writing
- Sophia Judge (Poetry)
- Xavier Prince (Creative Nonfiction)
- Priyadarshini Oshin Gogoi (Fiction)
Spiro Peterson Award
- Conner Moore
Carolyn Houtchens Award
- Diyasha Chowdhury