There are two annual undergraduate awards that are dedicated to the Honors Program thesis projects. The Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts is bestowed upon the highest rated literary arts thesis, and the Burckhardt Honors Award in Literary/Cultural Criticism is bestowed upon the highest rated literary/cultural criticism thesis. The 2019-2020 winners are noted below.
Arielle Amante
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: The Guilt of Halos
Thesis Advisor: Kazim Ali
Lily Chen
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Red Thread
Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som
Joshua Chung
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: The Oxymoronic Idea of a Beautiful Death in Aster's Film
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz
Jordan Eddy
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Queerness in the Gothic Genre: Dreams and Bedrooms
Thesis Advisor: Margaret Loose
Lorena Espinoza
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Collection
Thesis Advisor: Ben Doller
Chloe Esser
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Like Dawn in her Hand: Mythologies Unspoken and Retold
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Christine Fang
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Authenticity in Translation: Feminine Chinese Diasporic Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" and Xiaolu Guo's "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers"
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki
Patrick Grieve
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Mr. Jostins
Thesis Advisor: Ben Doller
Laura Hatanaka
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Engaging the Author Persona: Lemony Snicket and Daniel Handler
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Abigail Hora
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Florescence
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Katelyn Jukubowski
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Turning a Sow's Ear Into A Purse
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Jesse Jimenez
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Flesh of Gods
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Elizabeth Kirkland
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: First Death: “Pilot: Homo Immori”
Thesis Advisor: Jec Jemc
Kaylee Lee
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Descendants of the Phoenix
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Kelly Lien
Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: election years
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Heather Lim
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Dissolving the Imaginary: Contemporary Korean American Artists in a Multiculturalist Art World
Thesis Advisor: Nguyen Tan Hoang
Yanxing Liu
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Before Orientalism, Discovering China as a Heterotopia
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Olivia Noriega
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: From the Other Side
Thesis Advisor: Jec Jemc
Alondra Pena
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Tales of the Town: A collection of short stories
Thesis Advisor: Jec Jemc
Alyssa Phillips
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Change is Coming
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Chelsie Roman
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Those Pretty Little Dreams
Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som
Isabelle Rupani
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Hang us in the Louvre: a gallery
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Sebastian Sanchez
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Stay Awake
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Daisy Scott
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Book of Sundays
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Kristin Suthard
Winner of the Burckhardt Honors Award in Literary/Cultural Criticism!
Literatures of the World major
Thesis Title: "The Same Señor": Post-narration, Phallogocentrism, and the Narrative Testimonies of Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Thesis Advisor: Luis Martin-Cabrera
Jasmine Torres
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: I.D.
Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som
Marisa Vito
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Canyon Portrait
Thesis Advisor: Ben Doller