2023 English Celebration
Congratulations to our 2023 Award Winners!
1st Year Composition Awards
- Rhetorical Analysis - Dahra Sirois, “How We’ve Grown: The Two Miamis”(ENG 111, Lydia Allison)
- Proposal Argument - Benjamin Carr, “A Childhood with No Teachers?” (ENG 111, Cody Norris)
- Remediated Argument - Amanda Neufarth, “The Air Pollution Crisis in Cincinnati, Ohio” (ENG 111, Camellia Azzi)
- Best of 111 - Malek Stahr, “Passing the Torch: The Art of Rhetoric in the Memory of a Name” (ENG 111, Logan Clem)
- Best of ENG 108 - Chi Kim Truong, “Love, Self” (ENG 108, Eun Chong Yang)
- Best of ENG 109 - Meenal Khurana, “Lucknow’s Cloudy Sun” (ENG 109, William Orth)
- Advanced Writing Award - [none given this academic year]
Mary Jo Priest Awards
- Rhetorical Analysis - Madalyn Willis, “Pups with a Purpose” (Published in the Miami Student)
- Rhetorical Analysis - Caleb Chun, “Analyzing Rhetoric: Hunminjeongeum” (ENG 223, Rhetorical Strategies for Writers - Amanda Stevens)
- Proposal/Report - Julia Jacobs, “Ideological Analysis of Disney’s Encanto” (ENG 223, Rhetorical Strategies for Writers - Amanda Stevens)
Greer Hepburn Awards
- First Prize - Meredith Perkins, “Love&Honor&Carbon Monoxide, and other Articles”, Journalism
- Second Prize - Eleanor Prytherch, “Recipe”, Poetry (written independently)
- Third Prize - Samuel Fouts, “Onward”, Fiction or Non-Fiction (ENG 320, Kyle Swenson)
- Fourth Prize - Abigail Adamson, “Ohio: Find it Here”, Fiction or Non-Fiction (ENG 226, Introduction to Creative Writing - TaraShea Nesbit)
Almy Awards
- Max Kaufman, “The Women of “The Yellow Wallpaper”” (ENG 298, Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies - Erin Edwards)
- Alexa Spoerle, “Blood and Beauty: How Revenge Tragedies Depict Their Female Victims” (ENG 450, Revenge Tragedy - Kaara Peterson)
Edward J. Montaine Awards
- First Prize - Alain Fitch, “Sometimes” (ENG 320, CW Fiction or Non-Fiction - Joseph Bates)
- Second Prize - Rhese Voisard, “When the Tide Goes Out” (ENG 320, CW Fiction or Non-Fiction - TaraShea Nesbit)
- Third Prize - Jessica Miller, “Hold My Hand” (ENG 320, CW Fiction or Non-Fiction - TaraShea Nesbit)
Bookwalter Award
- Marlow Zuch, “It was not the storm” (ENG 226, Harrison Mmerenu)
- Max Kaufman, “Deliveries” (ENG 226, Jen Sammons)
Literature Award
[not awarded this year]
Linguistics Award
Abigail Adamson, “‘NBA 2K: The “Sport” of Speech Acts in eSports”” (ATH 265, James Bielo)
Gordon and Mary Wilson Scholarships
- Alexa Spoerle, “Blood and Beauty: How Revenge Tragedies Depict Their Female Victims” (ENG 450, Revenge Tragedy - Kaara Peterson)
- Ava Shaffer, “Birds and Beasts: The Role of Animal Imagery in Much Ado about Nothing” (ENG 386, Studies in Drama - Jim Bromley)
- Allison Huffmann, “Femininity and Motherhood as Revenge in Medea and Gone Girl” (ENG 450, Revenge Tragedy - Kaara Peterson)
- Riley Courtney, “The Battle of the Sexes: Shakespeare’s Use of Animal Metaphors in Taming of the Shrew” (ENG 372 - Jim Bromley)
- Madeline Evans, “A Boy and His God: The Relationship of Kiran and Krishna in Blue Boy” (ENG 248 - Anita Mannur)
Craver-Overton Scholarship
- Melanie Hamon, “The Value of Postlapsarian Language in Paradise Lost” (ENG 272 - Patrick Murphy)
- Julia Beaumont, “Nature’s Compensation for Women’s Lack of Property Rights in Aemelia Lanyer’s The Description of Cooke-Ham” (ENG 232, Women Writers - Jim Bromley)
Bill Moeller Scholarship
Deja Reid, “William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will” (ENG 298 - Katherine Kickel)
The Cathy S. Denny Memorial Scholarship
The Terry and Chris Baehr Scholarship
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Sarah Prusa, “I Am Determined to Prove a Villain: Legitimacy, Marriage, and Religion in Shakespeare’s Richard III” (ENG 386, Studies in Drama - Jim Bromley)
The Robert Kettler Memorial Scholarship
Savannah Perry , “Description of the Body” (ENG 256 9 Brendan Mooney)
Department Honors Projects
- Sayantan Basu - (Mentor: Nalin Jayasena)
- Caroline Funk - (Mentor: Jody Bates)
- Hanna Sroka - (Mentor: TaraShea Nesbit)
Undergraduate Summer Scholars
- Kayleigh Milligan -(Mentor: Kaara Peterson)
- Samuel Fouts -(Mentor: Patrick Murphy)
- Callie Meyer - (Mentor: Stefanie Dunning)
Senior Prizes
Creative Work
- Justin Bourne, “Past the Coppice” (ENG 460 - Cathy Wagner)
- Caroline Funk, “The Patient” (ENG 460 - Cathy Wagner)
Critical Essay
- Cassiani Avouris, “Politics of Society, Gender, and Exclusion in Maria Headley’s Beowulf: A New Translation” (ENG 490 - Patrick Murphy)
- Gabby Hoggatt, “You’re Giving the Cat Daddy Issues: Formations of Queer Identity” (ATH 265), Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology - James Bielo)
The Walter E. Havighurst Prize
Gabby Hoggatt
Sigma Tau Delta Essay Contest
Critical Essay - Grace Williams
Literary Essay - Sydney Bell
Professor of the Year -Katherine Batchelor and Keith Tuma
Academy of American Poets
Graduate Award | Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
Anand Gall - “Mehndi” and “Nuisance Bleeding
Undergraduate Award | Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Riley Courtney - “River Nymphs and Pebble Goddesses” and “It’s not enough to say I’m dying”
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Awards
Destiny Brugman
Jordan-Goodman Graduate Awards
- Creative Nonfiction: Maddy LaTurner, “Lessons from the Grave”
- Poetry: Adefemi Fagite, “I Will”, “Run”, “It’s September and I Remember”
- Fiction: Abigail Denton, “Sedimentary”
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
- Poetry: Jordan Green
- Creative Nonfiction: Kate Isaacs
- Fiction: Maddy LaTurner
Carolyn Houtchens Award
Camellia Azzi
Spiro Peterson Award
Parisa Adlifar