Undergraduate Award Recipients

2024�2025


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

  • First Place:聽Pamela Zhou �25, for 淎 look back at the 2010 Girl Scout Valentine Day Dance� (Laughing Medusa, Spring 2025)
  • Second Place:聽Eva Nahas �25, for 淩ealizing the Doctors Were Right When They Said You Have Major Depressive Disorder� (Laughing Medusa, Fall 2024)
  • Third Place:聽Rachel Herschbein聽�26, for 淭hree Grapefruits� (Stylus, Fall 2024)

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:

  • Morgan Santaguida �25

Dever Award for Freshman Writing 斅燜or the best three essays by first year students in a Spring 2024 or AY �24-25 English course (three first prizes):聽

  • Olivia Luyando �28, for 淭he Instability of Literary Absences� [Best Essay: Critical] (nominated by: James Smith)
  • Quynh Anh Le �28, for 淣o Cuntry For Wo-Men� [Best Essay: Journalism/Cultural Studies] (nominated by: Lauren Wilwerding)
  • Kendra Preval �27, for 淪hedding� [Best Essay: Personal Narrative] (nominated by: Shelley Linso)

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

  • Eva Nahas �25,聽淪he Dances Anyway� (poetry)

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

  • Annie Li �25, 淐aptive Life: Thematics of Action, Law, and Guilt�

Multilingual Learners Essay Award聽斅燜or the best essay by a Multilingual Learner written for an ELL section of First Year Writing Seminar or Literature Core

  • Winner:聽Ziqi (Kiana) Liu �28, for 淚nland Coastal Kids� (nominated by: Alex Puente)
  • Honorable Mention:聽Tairine Baptista Lima �28, for 淏orn To Be in the Waters� (Amanda Labriola)

John Randall Award 斅燜or the best undergraduate essay on American literature and culture, presented in honor and memory of author and 51动漫 Professor John Randall

  • 奥颈苍苍别谤:听Morgan Santaguida �25, 淓xcerpt from Senior Honors Thesis, 榃ith Waves, We Fall櫇
  • Honorable Mention:聽Ella Champagne �27, 湗The Hill We Climb�: Gorman Call to Confront America Past for a Better Future�
  • Honorable Mention:聽Olivia Crocker聽�26,聽淲omen in College Sports: The Lasting Outcomes of Title IX and the Barriers that Still Persist� (nominated by: Vincent Portillo)

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

  • Anastasia Prussakova聽�25

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

  • First Place:聽Grace Hepburn �27, 淓lephants Never Forget� (Laughing Medusa,聽Spring 2025)
  • Second place:聽Jessica Hwang �28, 淚nheritance� (Medical Humanities Journal,聽Spring 2025,聽Stylus, Spring 2025)
  • Third Place:聽Olivia Emerick �25, 淧ersephone Hairbrush� (Stylus聽Fall 2024,聽Laughing Medusa, Spring 2025)

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

  • First Place:聽Wyatt Seder-Burnaford聽�25
  • Second Place:聽Eva Nahas聽�25
  • Third Place:聽Olivia Emerick聽�25
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