Award Recipients 2020-2021

Cardinal Cushing Award 鈥斕齠or the best fiction published in a 51茶馆 undergraduate publication:

  • First Place:听Rachael Haskell 鈥�22,听 for "A Game of Cat and Mouse鈥� (Stylus, Fall 2020)
  • Second Place: Serena Meyers 鈥�23, for "by falling we learn to go safely" (Stylus, Fall 2020)
  • Third place:听Alexa Kirby 鈥�22, for "July 27, 2020 in the ICU鈥澨� (The Otium Review, Spring 2021)

Dever Fellowship 鈥� a substantial grant presented in honor of novelist and 51茶馆 alumnus Joseph Dever, to a graduating senior who proposes to pursue a career in writing:

  • Samuel Harmon 鈥�21

Dever Award for Freshman Writing 鈥� for the best essay written by a freshman in any English course:

  • Grace Hone 鈥�24, for 鈥淭he Shades of Identity: The Use of Color in Moonlight鈥� (nominated by Nell Wasserstrom)
  • Mary Sarah Olson 鈥�23, for 鈥淲hy is Kafala Unknown to Many Americans?鈥� (nominated by Allison Adair)
  • Tinghao (Duncan) Wang 鈥�24, for 鈥淭he Only Way of Doing Calligraphy鈥� (nominated by Paula Mathieu)

Doherty Prize for an Exemplary Honors Project (Creative):听

  • Cailin MacQuarrie, for 鈥淔alling from the Sky鈥�

Doherty Prize for an Exemplary Honors Project (Critical):听

  • Madeleine Deye, for 鈥淐ompassion, Being, and Defiance: The Representation of Interdependent Bodies in the Drama of Samuel Beckett鈥�

English Language Learner Essay Award听鈥斕齠or the best essay by an English Language Learner written for an ELL section of First Year Writing Seminar or Literature Core:

  • First Place: Yifan (Ricky) Li 鈥�24, for "Four-Hour Minority鈥� (nominated by Lynne Anderson)
  • Honorable Mention: Yunqi Chen 鈥�24, for "Interplays of Travel and Identity: Making Peace with Ourselves" (nominated by Brian Zimmerman)

John Randall Award 鈥� presented in honor and memory of author and 51茶馆 Professor John Randall to the undergraduate writer of the best essay on American literature and culture:

Two First Places:

  • Keara Hanlon 鈥�21, for "What Happens When We Lose Our Heads: The Visual Culture of the Internment of American Japanese During World War II"
  • Anna Goodman 鈥�21, for "Korean War Brides: Love, Intermarriage and Immigration in a Time of Destruction and Prejudice鈥� (nominated by Christina Klein)
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Honorable Mentions:

  • Rebecca Shan 鈥�23, for "COVID-19 in the US and the Increasing Politicization of American Culture: A Digital Archive" (nominated by Lori Harrison-Kahan)

William A. Kean Memorial Award 鈥� to the graduating senior judged to be the outstanding English major:

  • Emma Farnham 鈥�21

Bishop Kelleher Award 鈥� for the best poem published in a 51茶馆 undergraduate publication:

  • First Place:听Lexie Slotterback 鈥�22, for "i kept my grandmother's sewing kit"听 (The Laughing Medusa & Stylus, Spring 2021)
  • Second place:听Isabella De Palo Garcia Perez 鈥�21, for "Please Leave a Message After the Beep" (Stylus, Fall 2020)
  • Third place:听Ryan Fitzgerald 鈥�22, for "GALATEA鈥� (Stylus, Fall 2020)

Dennis A. McCarthy Award 鈥� for the best collection of creative writing by a junior or senior:

  • First Place:听Isabella De Palo Garcia Perez 鈥�21
  • Second Place:听Gina Case 鈥�21
  • Third Place:听Gabriel Eshelman 鈥�21
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