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Monday, April 29, 2024

2024 English Department Award Winners

 2024 English Honor Society
Nicole Amoachi, Emily Attisano, Monroe Byer, Grant Carey, Hannah de Melo, Meaghan Falconer, Caitlyn Foley, Riley Hawkins, Allison Hilliard, Kylie Horan, Rachel Jordan, Erin Kruh, Steven Makino, Alexandra Marino, Jordan Mastrodomenico, Catherine Messier, Megan Moore, Skylar Musick, Julia O'Keefe, Charlotte, Ralston, Rachel Rhee, Megan Rigione, Abby Thompson, Elizabeth Weiss


Core English Literature and Writing Seminar Most Distinguished Scholarly or Critical Essay
Emma Stecher, "Are you there, God? It's me, Nicole"


Jerome J. Fischer Memorial Award Best Undergraduate Essays
Emily Hanlon, "Disability as Social Construction: Kazuo Ishiguro's Critique of Ableism in Klara and the Sun"

Charlotte Ralston, "Memorialization and Immortalization of Memory in James Schuyler's Letters"

Margaret Powell Esmond Memorial Award Best Graduate Essay
Sarah Gregory, "Reading and Writing as Translation/ Leer y Escribir como Traducción: Ferré's Language Duel as Bilingual Text/ Duelo del Leguaje de Ferré como Texto Bilingüe"


Creative Writing Awards: Poetry Runner-Up
Mickey Wilcox, "A Horse at Troy," "Dodge the Streetcar," "Schoolyard Walk"


George D. Murphy Award in Poetry
Taleen Postian
"The American Collector", "Illuminators," "I am a nun now, I have never been so pure"



Creative Writing Awards: Prose Runner Up
Lily Renga, "The Karma of Idiots"
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English Department/Creative Writing Program Award in Prose
Justin Badoyen, "Ars Requirit Totum Hominem"



Villanova English Senior Achievement Award
Rachel Rhee


2024 Medallion of Excellence
Kylie Horan