Congratulations to 2019 Award Winners and English Honors Society

The department held its annual awards ceremony in the Driscoll Auditorium on Friday afternoon. Among those honored were Avni Rejpal, who received the Margaret Powell Esmonde Memorial Award for the year's best graduate essay; Gracie Stagliano, who won both the department's Medallion of Excellence and the Jerome J. Fischer Memorial Award for the best undergraduate essay; Meg Carter, who received the George D. Murphy Award in Creative Writing; and Audrey Gibson, who won the English/Honors Creative Writing Award.

Also celebrated were the members of the 2019 English Honors Society (pictured below). Congratulations everyone!

From left to right: Corinna Vlahoyiannis, Eli Papakostas, Emily Smith, Olivia Sigmund, Corina Scott, Caroline Rini, Catherine Rayward, Lindsey Pohl, Annie Melbert, Eva Martin, Angela Malenda, Cassie Lieu, Gillian Hixson, Rachael Hardiek, Sal DeMaggio, Aaron Earlywine (behind Sal!), Meg Carter, Alex Forgione, Danielle Fusaro, Gracie Stagliano, Katie Vaughn.

Other members either not pictured or not present: Jackie Douglass, Lucy Dunham, Clare Gautier, Emanuel Perris, Tiffany Wei.