Department of English

2006 Literature Program Award Winners

The Carol Kay Awards

First Prize: $250 - Elise Lonich
“Dark and Holy Thoughts: Tracking Despair in Spenser, Donne and the English Renaissance”
Written for Michael West

Second Prize: $150 - Kristen DiLemmo
“‘The Spirit of Beauty’: Classical Aestheticism and Ethics in Oscar Wilde’s Critical Essays”
Written for Philip Smith

The J. K. and Gertrude Miller Awards

First Prizes: $200 - Patricia McNeill
“Witchcraft, Gender, and Law in the Fifteenth Century: ‘The Case of Eleanor Cobham’”
Written for Kellie Robertson

Thea Jaffe
“Inefficacious? Why Joyce May Fail in His Attempt to Revive the Paralyzed”
Written for Michael West

Second Prize: $100 - Thea Jaffe
“‘Gaiety Transfiguring All That Dread:’ Camus’ Sisyphus as a Tragic Actor
Written for Leslie Hammond

The James Snead Awards

First Prize: $500 - John Hay
“The Fact and Fiction of Racial Identity in Pudd’nhead Wilson and the American Courtroom”
Written for Nancy Glazener

Second Prizes: $100 - Adrienne Block
“Desire in Motion”
Written for Nancy Glazener

Kathryn S. Easter
“Solving the Mystery of Flannery O’Connor”
Written for Michael West

 Patricia McNeill
“Married to the Job: Creating Personal Identity as an Actress in Sister Carrie and The Sport of the Gods”
Written for Nancy Glazener

Alexandra Nicholson
“Only ‘A Part of a Man’: Richard Wright’s Black Boy and the Slave Narrative Genre”
Written for Michael West

Heather Kramer
“‘It’s Getting More and More Believable’: How the Revisionist History of Slavery Turned Jacobs and Butler into Kindred Spirits”
Written for Nancy Glazener

Burkhart/Alumni Scholarship Winners

John Hay $1500

Natausha Horton $1000

Elise Lonich $1000

Tiffany Luke $500

Erin Carr $500

 

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