2025 English Celebration

Congratulations to our 2025 Awards Winners!

Rhetorical Analysis - Gabriela Cuevas, “Connections Under Canopies” (ENG 111, Tommie McPhetridge)

Proposal Argument - Mia McDulin,  “Sexual Education, Consent and Their Role in Preventing Death and Disease; In Our Hometown” (ENG 111, Hallie Fogarty)    

Remediated Argument - Anson Cipiti, “The Fight for Clean Air in Columbus”, infographic (ENG 111, Camilla Azzi)      

Best of 111 - Maddox Jung, “Colonel's World-Famous Recipe for Success” (ENG 111, Maddie Portune)

Best of 109 - Louis Scholer, “Why Luxembourg Should Adopt the IB Program” (ENG 109, Gabriele Bechtel)

Best of 225 -  Emma Pooley, “MUWCS: A Discourse Community and its Nexus of Identity” (ENG 225, Emily Alexander)

Critical Essay

Leah Vanasdale - “Realism and the Western Genre” (Andrew Hebard)

Sophie Kwiatkowski - “’The Misfortune of Knowing Anything’”: The Gothic Adventure of Female Ignorance in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey” (Mary Jean Corbett)

Creative Work

Savannah Perry - "My Last Race and First Time Voting" (Keith Tuma)

Rhese Voisard - "Alluding Autumn" (TaraShea Nesbit)

Public Argument

Katharine Nusbaum - “The Five Stages of Grief in Joan Didion’s Afterlife” (Erin Edwards)

Mandy Holliday - “From Swoop Dogg to Snoop Dogg: CEC’s Robot Gears Up for the Gin and Juice Bowl” (written for the “Meet Miami U” blog)

First Prize - Max Kaufman - “Excerpts from Transcript of Session 4”, Fiction/CNF (THE 292, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong)

Second Prize - Olivia Patel - Journalism Portfolio

Third Prize - Kendra Johnson - “Fatty Breakfast”, Fiction/ CNF (ENG 420, Brian Roley)

Fourth Prize - Marlow Zuch - “The Prince of Nothing in Particular, Really”, Fiction/ CNF (ENG 423, TaraShea Nesbitt)

First Prize - Ruthie Schmeichel - “Tiger Girl”, Fiction/CNF

Second Prize - Shannon Mahoney - “Wild Nights With the Self-Raised Soldiers and Fractals and Spectral Geometry”, Fiction/CNF (Mentor: Margaret Luongo)

Annabelle Howe - “Reframing Gynocriticism with Assemblage Theory” (ENG 232, Jim Bromley)

Cassidy Embry - “Nesting Dolls” (ENG 226, TS Nesbitt)

Katie Whitehead - “Our Roots” (ENG 320, Brian Roley)

Emma Pooley - “Written Lab Report: An Analysis of Silence and Greetings” (ATH 256, Leighton Peterson)

Becca Blanco - “The Ambiguity of Passing: The Stories between the Lines” (ENG 232, Parisa Adlifar)

Charlotte Melville - “Secret Agents: The Many Forces of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” (ENG 298, Erin Edwards)

Lillian Wahl - “Truth, Poetry, and Rebellion in Selected Works of Emily Dickinson” (ENG 275, Andrew Hebard)

Marlow Zuch - “Speak, Transcendence!” (ENG 423, TaraShea Nesbitt)

Olivia Voelker - “Pretty Privilege (and Lack Thereof) in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (ENG 339, Mary Jean Corbett)

Max Kaufman - “The Past Pushed Him off that Tree: Dawit’s Fall in My Soul to Keep” (ENG 338, Stefanie Dunning)

Annabel Howe - “’Boats against the Current’: The Futility of Social Mobility in The Great Gatsby” (ENG 276, Tim Melley)

Emma Estridge - “’She Spoke a Last Farewell’: The Orphic Gaze in Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (ENG 356, Katie Johnson)

Kenneth Dougherty

Becca Blanco 

Kathleen Perkins

Annabel Howe 

Julia Moore

Kylie Mullis (Mentor: Lizzie Hutton)

Julia Moore (Mentor: Jody Bates) 

Alaina Fitch (Mentor: Jen Sammons) 

Riley Courtney (Mentor: Patrick Murphy)

Lillian Wahl (Mentor: Jim Bromley)

Keith Tuma

Martha Castañeda (in memoriam) 

Graduate Award | Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize

Jordyn Damato - "[there are a lot of poems i have yet to write—][—there are a lot of things I have yet to admit]"

Undergraduate Award | Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize

Lucille Enneking - "Kitchen Sink Baptism"

Emma Rowan - “Reflections of a Gentleman”

Poetry:  Ria Adams - "vera bradley pink elephants as an origin story" and other poems

Fiction: Samantha Stahlhut - "Excerpt: Cursed Is The Ground"

Creative Nonfiction: Emma Rowan - "The Cat, the Angel, and the Grand Piano"

Chris Lovgreen

Reynie Zimmerman (Poetry)

Samantha Stahlhut (Prose)

Cam Cavaliere

Rena Perez 

Conner Moore

Rena Perez