Honors Day awards recognize the excellent work of our undergraduate and graduate students within the department, as well as the superb teaching by our faculty and teaching assistants. This year, Honors Day was combined with our departmental graduation ceremony. These events together acknowledge the outstanding achievements of our student body and faculty members. Faculty Awards and Recognitions Hugh Kenner Faculty Travel Award Barbara McCaskill External Faculty Awards Cody Marrs, Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Cody Marrs, Alan K. Smith Visiting Scholar at Trinity College Nicholas Allen, Astor Visiting Lectureship at Oxford University Roxanne Eberle, NEH Summer Seminar with University of Pittsburg University Faculty Awards Cynthia Turner Camp, CTL Teacher of the Week Undergraduate Student Awards Undergraduate Scholarship Awards Joshua Brown Scholarship John Malone Runner-Up: Alexandr Tchaykov Virginia Rucker Walter Scholarship Marianna Hagler Upper Division Essay/Project Awards Digital Humanities Prize Sarah Landry, “The Digital Pagan” Sydney Miles, “Unearthing American Monsters” For an Essay Using Primary Sources Claire Brunner, “Engagement Through Disarticulation” Honorable Mention: Shea Nolan, “The Court of Public Opinion in The Romance of a Shop and The Odd Women” For an Essay Using Secondary Sources Alexandre Tchaykov, “The ‘Tragic Joy’ of Poetic Labor” Honorable Mention: Alexandre Tchaykov, “Truly, the Moon Shines with a Good Grace” Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Award Spencer Frost, “historicizing” From the judge, Jeffrey Newberry, Creative Writing alumnus and Poet in Residence at the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College: “History may indeed be a nightmare as James Joyce wrote, but it’s also a story we tell ourselves. ‘Historicizing’ understands that the membrane between public and private history is so thin that it may as well not even exist. Sliding seamless between lyric and narrative, the poem understands that history is a story told by those in power. The only way to reclaim that power is to go backwards and ‘acknowledge the void’ of the past and rewrite it from there. Those who want to ‘hear gasps’ when the speaker talk about the dead will be disappointed. This is no-styled grief. This is a poem about loss, but the poem refuses to give in to despair. Let’s tell our stories backward, but live life forwards, the poem argues; ‘let’s get a handle on it.’” Honorable Mentions: Katherine Hare, “Tracks”; Meredith Brasher, “edifice” First Year Composition Awards Donald E. Barnett Awards ENGL 1101: Christian Schoeberl, “Once Upon a Modern Time: The Importance of Hungarian Folklore in Zadie Smith’s Two Men Arrive in A Village;” Jasmin Jonson, “Should Georgia Have an Opportunity School District in 2017” ENGL 1102: Ashley Kehoe, “Marketing Mania: An Attack on Advertising” Michael G. Moran e-Portfolio Awards: ENGL 1101: Danielle Pattee ENGL 1102: Carter Hart Graduate Student Awards Alice C. Langdale Award (for exceptional English graduate student) Sarah Mayo, Henna Messina, Robby Nadler, Lainie Pomerleau Robert H. West Award (for outstanding graduate student in Creative Writing) Gale Thompson Robert H. West Award (for outstanding graduate student in Literary Criticism) Ward Risvold Robert E. Park Essay Award Anna Forrester, “Rethinking the Transnation: Exile and the Idea of Nation in Postcolonial Narratives” James B. Colvert English Graduate Award (supports an advanced graduate student's research) Elizabeth Swails; Ward Risvold Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Ward Risvold Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship Paula Rawlins Mary Lynn Oliver Hunt and Matthew Alan Hunt Graduate Studies Fellowship in English Holly Gallagher Graduate Dean’s Summer Doctoral Research Award Gabrielle Fuentes Graduate School Dean’s Award Sarah Mayo Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Award Barry Shelton
