English Department Awards Day 2024

English Department Awards Archive

Congratulations to all of our 2024 winners! Our annual awards day will be on Thursday, April 25th (study day) from 11am-12pm in Patterson Hall 456.

Undergraduate Awards

Giem and Collins Awards

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1st Place: Kristian Donaldson	1st Place: Claude Best	1st Place: Jessica Hope Sahota
2nd Place: Courtney T. Maxwell	2nd Place: Akeila Burgess	2nd Place: Avery DeShea Stratton
3rd Place: La’Kenciara Shavarse Taylor	3rd Place: Ash Best	3rd Place: Dallas E. Meador

Joseph and June Riley Essay Contest

1st Place: Nellie Hensley, “‘Beautiful, Flawed, and Proud’ People: American Exceptionalism and Creating Paradise in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”
2nd Place: Audrey Rollen, “From Parchment to Pixels, and Richardson to Rowell”
3rd Place: Bee Wade, “Generational Trauma: The Color Purple and My Grandma”

Awards and Scholarships

Children's Literature Award: Charelle Cobbins
MidSouth Society for Technical Communication Scholarship: Courtney Powell
Emalie Appleton Brooks Memorial Scholarship: Romeo Gordon-Neely
Elizabeth Phillips Scholarship: Sydney Jackson & Sabrina Pierre

Department of English Distinguished Scholarship Award: Meg Felix

Graduate Awards

Concentration Awards

African American Literature: Obri Richardson
Literature: Kayla Lutes

Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication: Gabrielle Alston
Creative Writing Fiction: Chelsea Panameno
Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Gloria Odary
Creative Writing Poetry: Obiageli Iloakasia
Creative Writing Service Award: Samantha Williams & Clark Hubbard

Teresa Dalle TESOL Prize: Ming Cheng

Applied Linguistics: Scott Dutt

Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships

Ruth and Henry Loeb Scharff Scholarship: Adam Austill, Jessica Ashah, JungHae Kim, Baylee Less, & Briona Nichols

William and Martha Donigan Department of English Graduate Scholarship: Samantha Williams

Eugenia & Fred P. Gattas Scholarship Fund: Sheronda Gipson-Marion & Noah Randolph

Dr. Lawrence and Sarah Wynn English Fellowship: Kayla Lutes
Dr. Lawrence and Sarah Wynn English Scholarship: Evelina Mykhovska

Outstanding Graduate Student Award: Clark Hubbard

Rebecca Argall Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence: Kaitlynn Means

Joe Orgill Fellowship in English: Ming Cheng & Heri Yusup
Department of English Service Award: Matthew Farmer, Clark Hubbard, Kayla Lutes, & Obri Richardson