Awards and Honors | 2022-2023
At the end of every academic year the Department of English acknowledges the hard work and dedication of its students through a variety of academic prizes and honors. The department also recognizes and celebrates students’ academic achievement throughout college life and upon graduation.
Bachelor of Arts in English
Alexis Allard
Kiara Lynn Andreozzi
Phillip Cruz Bart
Fallon N Crossman
Maia A Ferguson
Alex E Fountain
Emma V Grous
Mina Iliana Helinski
Julia M Hills
Erika Kay Isnor
Keeva Jacques
Olivia Johnson
Ruth A Lewandowski
April Messier
Sam Mills
Paige Oranje
Rachel L Ouellette
Emily J Patrock
Abigail Dorothea Huan Roberts
Eddie G. Seeley
Mick Daniel Swanson
Benjamin Michael Allen
Erin Amy MacAskill
Master of Arts in English
Seyedeh Mania Mohseni
Madison Brown
Madeline Bruegger
Sarah Caron
Jayson Heim
Maddie Rose
Graysen Wolfe
Cat Stanfield
Sigma Tau Delta – Rho Chi Chapter Inductees
Jackson Knight
Nathaniel Stanley
Chantelle Flores
Matthew Day]
Patrick Malia
Phi Beta Kappa – Delta Chapter Inductees
Mina Helinski
April Messier
Sam Mills
Rachel Ouellette
Abigail Roberts
Matthew Day
Stephen King Chair Internship Recipients
Molly Glueck
Olivia Johnson
Sadie Colby
Jake Rainess
Patrick Malia
April Messier
Eddie Seeley
Mick Swanson
Ruth Lewandowski
McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellows
Sarah Renee Ozlanski
Iris Loehr
Undergraduate Awards
The Milton Ellis 1908 – Outstanding Senior Award ~ April Messier
Roger B. Hill – Outstanding Juniors ~ Ana Penze-Clyve
Writing Competitions
Abby Sargent Neese Kelly ’32 – Creative Writing Awards
Fallon Crossman
Erika Isnor
Rachel Ouellette
Abigail Roberts
Steve Grady Prizes for Creative Writing
Iris Loehr – BA Poetry First Prize
April Messier – BA Poetry Second Prize
Iris Loehr – BA Fiction First Prize
Katie Brayson – BA Fiction Second Prize
Madison Brown – MA Poetry First Prize
Thomas Sears – MA Poetry Second Prize
Madison Brown – MA Fiction First Prize
Walli Ullah – MA Fiction Second Prize
Clarine Coffin Grenfell ’32 ~ Poetry Prize
Paige McHatten, “The Murder of the Girlhood Express”, First Prize, Traditional
Abigail Roberts “Paper Horses”, First Prize, Experimental
Rachel Ouellette, “Amid the Debris”, Second Prize, Experimental
Iris Loehr, “American Gothic”, Third Prize, Experimental
Albert Morton Turner Prize in the Critical Essay
Mina Helinski, “Phenomenological Analysis of the Pardoner” [Undergraduate]
Molly Elizabeth Glueck, “I shall kill no albatross: Romantic liberalism, slavery, and the creation of the non-human poet” [Undergraduate]
Katherine Matthews, “Becoming Meat: Ecofeminism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” [Graduate]
Madison Brown, “Indigenous Futurity in the Face of Apocalypse: Traditional Knowledge (TK) as Survivance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves” [Graduate]
Judith A. Hakola Award in Professional & Technical Communication
Molly Glueck
The Robert C. Hamlet Prize for Playwriting
Katie Brayson, “Dante’s Septuple Feature”
Scholarships Awarded
Carole Cassidy Matthews Scholarship ~ Abigail Roberts
Graduate Honors
Introduction of 2022-2023 ULRICH WICKS FELLOWS ~ Walli Ullah
Faculty and Staff Recognition
2023 Employee Award
Celeste Cota
Retirements
Dr. Naomi Jacobs, Professor of English (spring 2020)
Margo Lukens, Professor of English (Spring 2022)
Laura Cowan, Associate Professor of English (Spring 2022)