We’re excited to announce our 2022 scholarship and senior award winners, as well as the winners of our 2022 writing contest.
It’s been an especially challenging couple of years, so the perseverance of these students—maintaining a love for learning even in difficult circumstances—has been a great example to the departmental faculty.
2022 Scholarship awards
Scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year have been awarded to the following students.
Bonnie C. Henzel Scholarship
Joseph Morgan
Rita K. Gollin Scholarship for Excellence in American Literature
Jessica Marinaro and Sarah Sharples
Jesse M. Rodgers Memorial Scholarship
Elizabeth Roos
Natalie Selser Freed Memorial Scholarship
Isaac Schiller
Hans Gottschalk Memorial Scholarship
Nevaeh Tucker
2022 Senior awards
Senior awards honor graduating students on the basis of input from departmental faculty, and making these decisions is always difficult. The following students are recognized for their exceptional achievements.
Calvin Israel Award for an outstanding academic record and strong support of the Humanities
Sophie Schapiro and Olivia Clare Schmidt
William T. Beauchamp Memorial Award for outstanding service to the vitality of literature on campus
Amina E. Diakite, Cassandra Pepe, and Georgia Katharine Ludwig VanDerwater
Patricia Conrad Lindsay Memorial Award for excellence in scholastic achievement and intellectual promise
Juliet Rose Wenzel
Joseph O’Brien Memorial Award for a demonstrated record of academic excellence and a spirit of volunteerism
Jose Romero and Hannah Sullivan
2022 Writing contest winners
Irene E. Smith Award in First-Year Critical Writing: INTD 105
Wyatt Hargrove, “Why Hemingway Is Relevant”
Honorable Mention: Iliana Papadopoulos, “I CAN. I WILL”
Jérome de Romanet de Beaune Award for an Essay in Diversity Studies
- Matt Keller, “A Not so ‘Swift’ Fix: Gulliver’s Travels Destabilizes the Fiction of Supremacist Standardized Language”
- Elizabeth Roos, “The Publishing of African Women’s Literature”
- Shawna Smith, “Review Essay: Aromantic /Asexual Representation in Media”
Research Paper
- Madyson Gillanders, “Shockwaves: America through the Eyes of a Non-American Black”
- Alissa Moeller, “The ‘Ugly Truth’ in A Burial at Ornans”
Honorable Mention: Kathryn Sirianni, “Teaching Our Children the America We Never Knew”
John H. Parry Award for a Critical Essay
Joseph Morgan, “Emotional Hyperbole in Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun”
Honorable Mention: Lauren Silverman, “Rape of the Lock and the Language of Rape Culture”
Self-Reflective Writing
- Patricia Figueroa, “The Game of Life: The American Dream House”
- Thalia Maynor, “Why She Talking Like That? Beauty and Brilliance in Black Language”
Creative Non-Fiction
- Joseph Morgan, “Fathers and Sons”
- Mollie McMullan, “Complications of Motherhood”
- Jason Ray, “Records”
Agnes Rigney Award in Drama and Screenwriting
- Patricia Figueroa, Don’t Go (Breaking My Heart)
- Anna Lynch and Susan Romance, Korea’s Sweetheart
Honorable Mention: Erika Powers, [title?]
Lucy Harmon Award in Literary Fiction
- Hannah Lustyik, “Have You Ever Told Anyone You’re Rotting Inside?”
- Matt Keller, “A Submission”
- Alison DiCesare, “The Quiet Ones”
Mary Thomas Award in Poetry
- Jenna Murray, “she is not ready to tell me he is dead”
- Kayla Eyler, “I’m old, I’m so fucking old”
- Susan Romance, “Birth of Venus”