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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