2022 English Celebration

Congratulations to our 2022 Award Winners!

1st Year Composition Awards

  • Rhetorical Analysis - Jovonah Kramer, “Dismantling Common Sense: A Rhetorical Analysis” (ENG 111, William Orth)
  • Proposal Argument - Lauren Tuhro, “Non-Profit Solution for Equitable Education in the St Louis City Schools” (ENG 111, Erin Goff-Mitchell)
  • Remediated Argument - Kathryn Clemmons, “Make Social Media Social Again” (ENG 111, Logan Clem)
  • Best of 111 - Meaghan Grasso, Boston’s Methadone Mile” (ENG 111, Logan Clem)
  • Best of ENG 108 - Jingbin Yu, “LGBTQ: What and How” (ENG 108, Eun Chong Yang)
  • Best of ENG 109 - Minh Tran, “Man Up!” (ENG 109, Gabriele Bechtel)
  • Advanced Writing Award - Melissa Elias, "Resilience in the Midst of Destruction: A Firsthand Account of the Salvadoran Civil War" (ENG 225, Parisa Adlifar)

Mary Jo Priest Awards

  • Rhetorical Analysis - Olivia Hennessey, “How Trump’s Ad ‘Meet Joe Biden’s Supporters’ Affirms the Fears of His Conservative Base” (E+NG 223, Rhetorical Strategies for Writers - John Mauk)
  • Rhetorical Analysis - Nathan Gillin, “Encouragement to Change the World” (ENG 223, Rhetorical Strategies for Writers - Amanda Stevens)
  • Proposal/Report - Liz Browning, “Analyzing The Social Network (2010) - Diluted Shares Scene” (ENG 223, Rhetorical Strategies for Writers - John Mauk)

Greer Hepburn Awards

  • First Prize - Emma Muhlenkamp, “21 Days”, Fiction (ENG 226, Intro to CW - William Fisher)
  • Second Prize -Heather Rolfert ,“In a World of Anxiety; A Collection of Anxiety Laden Poems”, Poetry (ENG 226, Intro to CW and ENG 276, American Literature 1900 to present  - Sara Baxter and Justin Chandler)
  • Third Prize -  Lexi Whitehead, “We don’t need gender-neutral clothes, we need non-gendered clothes”, Journalism, (written for The Miami Student - Mentor: Fred Reeder)
  • Fourth Prize - Justin Bourne, “What the forest gives”, Fiction (ENG 420, CW Advanced Fiction - TaraShea Nesbit)

Almy Awards

  • Caroline Funk,  “Making Space for the Female Spectator: Booksmart’s Subversion of the Staircase Trope” (ENG 356, Women and gender in Film - Katie Johnson)
  • Joseph Puckett, “Dostoevsky’s Chaotics” (Seminar: Dostoevsky at 200 - Scott Kenworthy)

Edward J. Montaine Awards

  • First Prize - Charlie Farmer, “My Name” (written independently)
  • Second Prize - Olivia Triance, “Happy Ending” (ENG 320, CW Intermediate Fiction - Margaret Luongo)
  • Third Prize - Samuel Fouts, “The Ghost” (ENG 320, CW Intermediate Fiction - Kyle Swensen)

Bookwalter Award

  • Meredith Perkins, “My Mother, Age Nineteen” (ENG 225H, Adv. Writing Honors - Daisy Hernandez)
  • Savannah Perry, “Parking Lot” (ENG 225H, Adv. Writing Honors - Daisy Hernandez)

Literature Award

Ryan Rosu, “Garland, The Girl with a Gun- Gender in Roger Corman’s Gunslinger” (ENG 356, Women and gender in Film - Katie Johnson)

Linguistics Award

Marina Nelson, “‘You can imagine…’ The Art of Linguistic Performance in Catholicism and Methodism” (ATH 265, Intro to Linguistic Anthropology - James Bielo)

Honorable mention:

Emma Grupe, “Highs and Lows: How Open Conversation and Expressions of Support Create Necessary Bonds Between Young Professionals in the Resident Assistant Role” (ATH 265, Intro to Linguistic Anthropology -James Bielo)

Gordon and Mary Wilson Scholarships

  • Kate Dargan, “Winter” (ENG 420, CW Advanced Fiction - Margaret Luongo)
  • Melanie Hamon, “Survival and Perseverance in an Unequal Society, Examined through Post Civil Rights Movement African American Literature” (ENG 338, African-American Writing 1946-present - Cheryl Johnson)
  • Nyah Winiewicz, “To Trust or Not to Trust: That is the Question” (ENG 298, Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies - Mary Jean Corbett)
  • Nicole Schlea, “A Tempest vs. The Tempest: Comparisons Between the Classic and the Adaptation” (ENG 298, Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies - Katie Johnson)
  • Lauren Doll, “A Dialect of Discovery” (ENG 202, Varieties of English: Dialect Diversity and Language Change - Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis)
  • Sarah Prusa, “Living or Dead? Criticism When the Text Ends but Life Remains” (ENG 298, Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies - Katie Johnson)

Craver-Overton Scholarship

Alexa Spoerle, “Escaping Their Confinement: The Women in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Fall of the House of Usher” (ENG 231, The Short Story - Kaara Peterson)

Bill Moeller Scholarship

Deja Reid, “Feminism and Intersectionality in American Literature” (ENG 225, Advanced Composition - Tom Flanigan)

The Cathy S. Denny Memorial Scholarship

Jocelyn Minton, “Weave her Garland” (ENG 320, CW Intermediate Fiction - Jody Bates)

The Terry and Chris Baehr Scholarship

  • Heather Rolfert, A Writer’s Reflection: Critique (ENG 298, Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies - Michele Navakas)
  • Olivia Hennessey, “How Trump’s Ad ‘Meet Joe Biden’s Supporters’ Affirms the Fears of His Conservative Base” (ENG 223, Rhetorical Strategies for Writers - John Mauk)

The Robert Kettler Memorial Scholarship

Joseph Puckett , “Dostoevsky’s Chaotics” (Seminar: Dostoevsky at 200 - Scott Kenworthy)

Department Honors Projects

Janelle Hart, “Novel in Stories” (Director: Margaret Luongo)

Undergraduate Summer Scholars

  • Caroline Funk - Modern Madwomen: How Contemporary Women Authors Write About Mental Illness (Mentor: Margaret Luongo)
  • Cassiani Avouris - A Creative and Scholarly Exploration of Autistic Experience (Mentor: Cathy Wagner)
  • Joseph Puckett - Creativity, Memory, and the Book as Object (Mentor: Jody Bates)
  • Shr-Hua Moore - The Story of a Story: Distribution and Reinterpretation of the Decameron in the 17th and 21st Centuries (Mentor: Cindy Klestinec)

Senior Prizes

Creative Work

  • Kendra Stiers, “The Rosebush” (ENG 420, CW Advanced Fiction - Brian Roley)
  • Emma Naille, “‘Tis the Damn Season” (ENG 460, Capstone in CW - Cathy Wagner)
  • Ethan O’Brien-Sheffer, “For His Celebrity” (ENG 320, CW Intermediate Fiction - Joseph Squance)

Critical Essay

  • Paige Hartenburg, “Echoes of Pleasure and Audiophilic Cinema” (ENG 480, Departmental Honors - Katie Johnson)
  • Christa Nieman, “‘The Stuff what Don’t get Spoke’: Communicative Codes in Hawkeye 19” (ENG 360B, Comics in Theory and in Practice -Patrick Murphy)
  • Rylee Jung, “The Fragility of Intent: Pale Fire and Authorial Intent” (ENG 388, Studies in Prose  - Cynthia Klestinec) 

The Walter E. Havighurst Prize

Kate Dargan


Sigma Tau Delta Essay Contest

Critical Essay - Paige Hartenburg

Literary Essay - Nick Murphy

Professor of the Year - Daisy Hernandez and Kelli Rushek

Academy of American Poets

Graduate Award | Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize

Isabella Gross - “Metamorphosis”

Undergraduate Award | Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize

Elizabeth Brueggemann “coming home, home coming”

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Awards

Sandamini Ranwalage

Jordan-Goodman Graduate Awards

  • Creative Nonfiction: Harrison Mmerenu, "Regarding the Pain of my Parents"
  • Poetry:  Hanna Litwinowicz, "In This Poem Geraldine Falls In Love With The Scenery"
  • Fiction: Dalanie Beach, "Everything You Never Had"

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards

  • Poetry: Jimmy Hollenbeck
  • Creative Nonfiction: Kelsey Timmerman
  • Fiction: Hanna Litwinowicz

Carolyn Houtchens Award

Emily Alexander

Spiro Peterson Award

Justin Chandler