Department of English Awards for the 2022-23 academic year

By Giana Nardelli

The Department of English held its annual awards ceremony Friday, April 14, in the Dodd Hall Auditorium. Francis Cushing Ervin Professor of English Aaron Jaffe offered the ceremony’s opening remarks, with Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English David Kirby delivering welcoming remarks.

Thirty-one undergraduate and graduate students won awards for their writing, teaching, or scholarship work for the 2022-23 academic year. Doctoral candidates Daniel Raschke (Literature, Media, and Culture) and Chris Watkins (Creative Writing) were this year’s co-winners of the Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship award. English-Editing, Writing, and Media student and Spring 2023 alumna Aisha Louis won the Fred L. Stanley Award for Undergraduate Excellence. English-Creative Writing alumna Rebecca Orchard (Ph.D. 2023) was awarded the Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Career as a Graduate Student.

Jaffe was chair of this year’s Awards Committee. The committee also included Associate Professor Skip Horack, Assistant Professor Ronisha Browdy, and Assistant Professor Ali Sperling. The ceremony concluded with Jaffe’s closing remarks, and all attendees were welcomed to the post-awards ceremony hosted in the Williams Building Common Room.

Undergraduate Awards

Cody Harris Allen Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing

(2nd runner up)

JASMINE HUR

Cody Harris Allen Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing

(1st runner up)

MEGHAN GILMORE

Cody Harris Allen Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing

MALLORY MALMAN

John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Undergraduate Award

JACQUELYN MATEOSKY

Gerald Ensley Emerging Journalist Award

BELLA BOZIED

Steven D. Schloff Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for Poetry

LARK STAFFORD

Steven D. Schloff Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for Fiction

MEGHAN GILMORE

Steven D. Schloff Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for Non-Fiction

BRANDON PERKINS

James McCrimmon Award for Outstanding Writing in College Composition

DANIELLE THOMPSON

Sassaman Undergraduate Creative Writing Award

NICOLAS P. EVANS

Sassaman Undergraduate Critical Writing Award

DANIEL SIEGEL

Waters Excellence in Literature Undergraduate Award

SARA BOUHAMID

George and Ruth Yost Award for Best Personal Essay Award

MEGHAN GILMORE

Mart P. Hill Award for Outstanding English Honors Thesis

(co-winners)

SUNRYA PEACE-FRIEDMAN

ELLIOT WEBER

John and Susan Ausley Scholarship

NOURA SHAYA

Fred L. Standley Award for Undergraduate Excellence

AISHA LOUIS

Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Achievership Award

SOPHIE DAVIS

Graduate Awards

Marian Bashinski Award for Excellence in Teaching First-year Composition

LI ZHUANG

Bryan Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching First-year Composition

SAMUEL GRANOFF

Robert O. Lawton Award for Excellence in Teaching First-year Composition

GWEN NIEKAMP

Fred L. Standley Graduate Assistant Teaching Award

GWEN NIEKAMP

Robert Adler Endowed Memorial Fellowship Graduate Award

ANTHONY BORRUSO

Waters Excellence in Literature Graduate Award

MEGHARAJ ADIKAHRI

Sassaman Graduate Award for Outstanding Critical Writing

IAN HALL

Sassaman Graduate Award for Outstanding Creative Writing

SAMUEL GRANOFF

John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Graduate Award

HERA NAGUIB

Adam M. Johnson Fellowship

MAISHA MITTHI HOSSAIN

Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship

(co-winners)

DANIEL RASCHKE

CHRIS WATKINS

Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Dissertation in English Literature, Criticism, Linguistics, or Rhetoric

CARLEY ROBERTSON

Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Career as a Graduate Student

REBECCA ORCHARD

Giana Nardelli is an English major on the editing, writing, and media Track, with a second major in media/communication studies. In the fall of 2023, she begins her master's studies in FSU's Rhetoric and Composition Program.

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