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
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Cody Harris Allen Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing
MALLORY MALMAN
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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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