English Student Awards

 Student awards recognize scholars who have achieved academic excellence and have demonstrated leadership in their chosen fields.  

Department of English Awards

Award Winners for 2020

Shannon M. Pojedinec — Bill Pasch Senior English Award

Danielle R. Dumas — Stanley Cyrus Award, Poetry for “On Loneliness,” “Under a Cloudless Sky We Ran,” and “The Fourth”

Ashley Jenkins — Stanley Cyrus Award, Fiction for “Hannah”

Grace A. Weldon — Stanley Cyrus Award, Creative Nonfiction for “A New Perspective on Perspectives”

Ashley Jenkins — CYGNET Award, Fiction for “Captivity”

 Tian Ding — CYGNET Award, Creative Nonfiction for “What I Learned from My Internship at a Non-Profit”

Chidubem N. Okoye — CYGNET Award, Poetry for “Lake Ontario”

Madeline G. Maynor — Fred Goldberg Prize for Scholarly Essay for her essay “The Self-Reliant Individualist”

Uku Urb — Sharon Sellers First-Year Writing Award, ENGL 1101 for “Riposte: A Week of            
Reading Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger”

Spencer K. Kuhn — Sharon Sellers First-Year Writing Award, ENGL 1102 for “US Foreign            
Policy: Global Security or Instability?”