Award Recipients 2020-2021

Cardinal Cushing Award 斕齠or the best fiction published in a 51动漫 undergraduate publication:

  • First Place:听Rachael Haskell �22,听 for "A Game of Cat and Mouse� (Stylus, Fall 2020)
  • Second Place: Serena Meyers �23, for "by falling we learn to go safely" (Stylus, Fall 2020)
  • Third place:听Alexa Kirby �22, for "July 27, 2020 in the ICU澨� (The Otium Review, Spring 2021)

Dever Fellowship � a substantial grant presented in honor of novelist and 51动漫 alumnus Joseph Dever, to a graduating senior who proposes to pursue a career in writing:

  • Samuel Harmon �21

Dever Award for Freshman Writing � for the best essay written by a freshman in any English course:

  • Grace Hone �24, for 淭he Shades of Identity: The Use of Color in Moonlight� (nominated by Nell Wasserstrom)
  • Mary Sarah Olson �23, for 淲hy is Kafala Unknown to Many Americans?� (nominated by Allison Adair)
  • Tinghao (Duncan) Wang �24, for 淭he Only Way of Doing Calligraphy� (nominated by Paula Mathieu)

Doherty Prize for an Exemplary Honors Project (Creative):听

  • Cailin MacQuarrie, for 淔alling from the Sky�

Doherty Prize for an Exemplary Honors Project (Critical):听

  • Madeleine Deye, for 淐ompassion, Being, and Defiance: The Representation of Interdependent Bodies in the Drama of Samuel Beckett�

English Language Learner Essay Award听斕齠or the best essay by an English Language Learner written for an ELL section of First Year Writing Seminar or Literature Core:

  • First Place: Yifan (Ricky) Li �24, for "Four-Hour Minority� (nominated by Lynne Anderson)
  • Honorable Mention: Yunqi Chen �24, for "Interplays of Travel and Identity: Making Peace with Ourselves" (nominated by Brian Zimmerman)

John Randall Award � presented in honor and memory of author and 51动漫 Professor John Randall to the undergraduate writer of the best essay on American literature and culture:

Two First Places:

  • Keara Hanlon �21, for "What Happens When We Lose Our Heads: The Visual Culture of the Internment of American Japanese During World War II"
  • Anna Goodman �21, for "Korean War Brides: Love, Intermarriage and Immigration in a Time of Destruction and Prejudice� (nominated by Christina Klein)
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Honorable Mentions:

  • Rebecca Shan �23, for "COVID-19 in the US and the Increasing Politicization of American Culture: A Digital Archive" (nominated by Lori Harrison-Kahan)

William A. Kean Memorial Award � to the graduating senior judged to be the outstanding English major:

  • Emma Farnham �21

Bishop Kelleher Award � for the best poem published in a 51动漫 undergraduate publication:

  • First Place:听Lexie Slotterback �22, for "i kept my grandmother's sewing kit"听 (The Laughing Medusa & Stylus, Spring 2021)
  • Second place:听Isabella De Palo Garcia Perez �21, for "Please Leave a Message After the Beep" (Stylus, Fall 2020)
  • Third place:听Ryan Fitzgerald �22, for "GALATEA� (Stylus, Fall 2020)

Dennis A. McCarthy Award � for the best collection of creative writing by a junior or senior:

  • First Place:听Isabella De Palo Garcia Perez �21
  • Second Place:听Gina Case �21
  • Third Place:听Gabriel Eshelman �21
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