English Department Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards
The Department of English honored its outstanding undergraduate and graduate students Friday, April 20 during the annual awards ceremony. Professor Gary Taylor, chair of the department, welcomed those in attendance by saying the event is a way to celebrate past and present accomplishments.
“We are celebrating not only our current students, but we also are simultaneously celebrating previous students, alumni, and donors, those people who have looked back fondly on this department and this institution and this discipline and for whom these awards are named,” he said. “This is a celebration across generations of what it is we all love doing, and that some of us do extraordinarily well.”
Twenty-six students won awards in seven separate categories for the 2017-18 academic year. Professor Leigh Edwards leads the awards committee, which also includes Professors Joann Gardner, James Kimbrell, David Kirby, and Elizabeth Stuckey-French. A full list of the student winners is below.
For Professor Taylor’s welcoming remarks and Professor Kirby’s introduction to the ceremony, click here. A fuller article about the ceremony and some of the winners will be posted to this website soon.
2017-18 Awards
Undergraduate Writing Awards
Parker Logan
John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Undergraduate Award
Cassandra Ledger
Cody Harris Allen Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing
Julia Watson
Sassaman Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Creative Writing
Morgan Dobbins
Sassaman Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Critical Writing
Talise Burton
George and Ruth Yost Undergraduate Award for Best Personal Essay
Graduate Writing Awards
Tanya Grae
John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Graduate Award
Molly Marotta
Sassaman Graduate Award for Outstanding Critical Writing
Whitney Gilchrist
Sassaman Graduate Award for Outstanding Creative Writing
Literati Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards
Johnathan Riley
Literati Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for Poetry
Gabriela Maceira
Literati Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for Fiction
Garrett Pletcher
Literati Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate Awards
Sarah Morrison
Louis and Mart P. Hill Award for Outstanding English Honors Thesis
Katherine Lutz
Fred L. Standley Award for Undergraduate Excellence
PhD Awards
Aimee Jones
Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Career as a Graduate Student
Alex Quinlan
Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Career as a Graduate Student
Martha McKay Canter
Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Dissertation in English Literature, Criticism, Linguistics, or Rhetoric
Erin Workman
Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Dissertation in English Literature, Criticism, Linguistics, or Rhetoric
Alexander Brickler
J. Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore
Excellence in Teaching College Composition Awards
Kamila Albert
Marion Bashinski Award for Excellence in Teaching College Composition
Julianna Edmonds
Fred L. Standley Award for Excellence in Teaching College Composition
Jessi Thomsen
Robert O. Lawton Award for Excellence in Teaching College Composition
Alex Jaros
Bryan Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching College Composition
James Shashaty
James McCrimmon Award for Outstanding Student Writing in College Composition – Honorable Mention
Emma Moody
James McCrimmon Award for Outstanding Student Writing in College Composition
Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowships
William Fargason
Rita Mookerjee