During the awards ceremony held in our department on April 30, 2009, the following students won awards. We congratulate all of them, and thank all of the award donors for their generosity.

Undergraduate Awards

Honors Thesis Award:

Lauren Huffman, "My American Dream Fell Apart at the Seams, Tell Me What It Means: The Search for the American Dream in 20th Century Literature" (Dr. Leigh Anne Duck)

Honors Thesis Award Honorable Mention:

Jennifer Bryant, "Hyperreality and Emotional Authenticity in England, England" (Dr. Carey Mickalites)

Distinguished Scholarship Award for English Undergraduate Student
Alicia Mariano

Joseph R. and June W. Riley Essay Contest:

1st place--Alicia Mariano (Dr. Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan)
2nd place--Stancy Szalankiewicz (Dr. Susan Popham)
3rd place--Samantha Holt (Dr. Jeffrey Scraba)

Giem and Collins Awards:

English 2201:

1st place--Robert K. Jones, III
2nd place--Matthew Hunter
3rd place--Elizabeth Crowson

English 2202:

1st place--Terry Sanders Evans
2nd place--Laura Ashley Franklin
3rd place--Ayana West

English 1020:

1st place--Henry Shelton
2nd place--Elizabeth Crunk
3rd place--Hau Minh Ngo

English 1010:

1st place--Jeffrey S. Harwood
2nd place--Nathan Rivers
3rd place--Jessica Phillips

Elizabeth C. Phillips Memorial Scholarship:

Terrell Theresa Kimmons
Norrell M. Malone
Friendella S. Overstreet

Emalie Appleton Brooks Memorial Scholarship:

Maria K. Thomas

Children's Literature Awards:

Ashley Dover
RaChelle Fields
Zane Haykal
Matthew Reagan

Society for Technical Communication Scholarship:

Brian Ahern
Jacques Granger

Graduate Awards:

Creative Writing: (Fiction) Lisa Cupolo; (Poetry) Bethany Reisner; (Non-Fiction) Laura Snider; (Service Award) Laura Snider

Applied Linguistics: Scott Healy and Joseph Weintraub; James Kelley

ESL: Shafika Fakir

Literature: Everett Wade

Professional Writing: Leslie Terrell

Graduate Research Award: Michael Duncan; Lee Griffith

The Dr. Lawrence Wynn Award: Ana G. Gal

Dr. Lawrence and Sarah Wynn Fellowship: Kelli O'Brien

Outstanding Graduate Student:  Michael Petrik

Morton Thesis/Dissertation Award: Carmen Turner

Dissertations:

Benjamin Duncan, "A Genre Analysis of Biomedical Abstracts: Difference between Native and Korean Speakers of English" (Dr. Emily Thrush)

Michael Duncan, "Rhetorical Narrativism: A Rhetorical-Critical Reading of the Early Christian Gospels" (Dr. Brad McAdon)

M.F.A. Theses

Darnell Arnoult, "The Properties of Waten" (Prof. Richard Bausch)

Greg Conley, "Geographies" (Dr. Tom Russell)

Lisa Cupolo, "Two Elizabeths" (Professor Cary Holladay)

Derek Gray, "What We Talk about When We Talk about Murder-Suicide " (Professor Richard Bausch)

Lee Griffith, "I Am So Fun: Stories" (Professor Cary Holladay)

DiAnne Malone, "Digging for the Devil" (Dr. Kristen Iversen-Britt)

Ross Proctor, "An Average Man" (Dr. Kristen Iversen-Britt)

David Roberts, "Unfinished Words: Completing My Father's Story" (Dr. Kristen Iversen-Britt)

Laura Snider, "Lonely Cricket, Sing" (Prof. Cary Holladay)

M. A. Theses

Tiffany Akin, "Les Miserables as Examined through the Lens of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale: Underlying Structure and Diverging in Hugo's French Novel" (Dr. Verner Mitchell)

Melody Beacham, Professional Writing Portfolio (Dr. Susan Popham)

Bradley Bailey, "Opposition Rhetoric in Abolitionist Pseudo-Slave Narratives" (Dr. Jeffrey Scraba)

Andrew Black, "The Light, the Road, and the Guide: The Rhetoric of the Federalist Papers" (Dr. Jeffrey Scraba)

Joe Orgill, "The Evolution of the Self-Made Man in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald" (Dr. Theron Britt)

William Lucas Patton, "The Many-Headed Multitude: Shakespeare's Views on the Populace in Coriolanus and Julius Caesar " (Dr. Josh Phillips)

Engrid Roy, Professional Writing Portfolio (Dr. Gene Plunka)

Lee A Thompson, Professional Writing Portfolio (Dr. Gene Plunka)

Deborah Whitehurst, "The Blues as Literature" (Dr.Reginald Martin)


                                    English Honors Theses

India Bradley, "Four Short Stories" (Professor Cary Holladay)

Jennifer Bryant, "Hyperreality and Emotional Authenticity in England, England"
(Dr. Carey Mickalites)

Lauren Huffman, "My American Dream Fell Apart at the Seams, Tell Me What It Means: The Search for the American Dream in 20th Century Literature" (Dr. Leigh Anne Duck)

Alicia Mariano, "The Sky Outside" (Dr. Susan Popham)