UG Opportunities Student Award Winners
Celebrating our 2021-2022 Award Winners & Departmental Honors Students
2022 Winners
English Department Essay Award
“Wiley Women: Framing Dalila in A Thousand and One Nights”
Author: Ramona Mukherji
Course: English 146
Instructor: Professor Chris Chism
Barbara Bellow Watson Shakespeare Essay Contest
““Any Last Words?” A Study of Deathbed Dialogue in Shakespeare’s Histories”
Author: Mason Hardy
Course: English 182B
Instructor: Professor Claire McEachern
Thompson Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis
Upward Bound: Collected Stories
Author: Woody Brown
Thesis Advisor: Professor Mona Simpson
The Lily Frankel Show and Other Stories
Author: Lily Frankel
Thesis Advisor: Professor Justin Torres
Clara Rusk Hastings Scholarship for Excellence in the English 10 Series (2021-2023 recipient)
Justin Huwe
Harold Dee Fox Memorial Scholarship (2021-2022 recipients)
Nicole Hall
Summer Brotman
The Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Winner: “Throws” and other poems
Author: Rachel Kaufman
Honorable Mention: “How Should Mississippi Reap What The Nation Sowed”
Author: Isabella Durgin
The May Merrill Miller Award
First Prize: “allahabad” and other poems
Author: Mishal Imaan Syed
Second Prize: “Selah” and other poems
Author: Rebecca Wittman
The Olfet Agrama Prize for Creative Writing
Winner: “Do Korean women dance” and other poems
Author: Ashley G. Kim
Honorable Mention: “Girlhood is a Greek Tragedy”
Author: Laureen Huynh
The Shirley Collier Prize
Fascination: Sixteen
Author: Young G. Kim
The Christopher Zyda Creative Writing Prize
The Competition
Author: Aaliyah Qureshi
The Ruth Brill Scholarship Award
First Place: Tom the Movie Star
Author: Woody Brown
First Place: Revelations
Author: Jane Shin
Second Place: First Time
Author: Jessica Wong
The Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Award
First Place: 0
Author: Shalinee Maitra
Second Place: Obscenity
Author: Yidan Xu
The David Wong Louie Memorial Creative Writing Prize
Viciosa
Author: Ginger Jacobs
Peter Rotter Essay Prize
“Queering the rocks: Three readings of the ‘grisly, feendlyrokkesblake’ of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale”
Author: Jinha Song
Jinhaalso received the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity for her presentation at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase.
Teague Melville Writing Prize
“The Sadomasochistic Aesthetic: Origins and Implications”
Author: Nicole Bosiy