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2020-2021 Honors Students

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 2020-2021 winners are noted below.

  • Elisa Ady

    Elisa Ady

    Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Field God the First
    Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

  • Sarah Arain

    Sarah Arain

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Muslima in America: Resisting Representations of the "Home" and Reclaiming Space for the "Homebody"
    Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

  • Avery Ardent

    Avery Ardent

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Mirrors of Obscurity and Violence: Reclaiming Personhood Within Oceanic Poetics
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Meryem Bahadir

    Meryem Bahadir

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Laundromat
    Thesis Advisor: Alain Cohen

  • Anna Box

    Anna Box

    Winner of the Burckhardt Honors Award in Literary/Cultural Criticism!

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: How to Build a Better Keats: A Theoretical Guidebook
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Tajairi Brown-Neuson

    Tajairi Brown-Neuson

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: An Excerpt of Midnight Beauty
    Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

  • Sabrina Chen

    Sabrina Chen

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Human
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Becky Chun

    Becky Chun

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Fairy Floating
    Thesis Advisor: Jin-kyung Lee

  • Stephanie Duncan

    Stephanie Duncan

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: (Grand) Daughter
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Brianna Fluhrer

    Brianna Fluhrer

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Eat, Pray, Law: Civic Engagement Through the Lens of Consumption
    Thesis Advisor: Sal Nicolazzo

  • Nathalie Franco

    Nathalie Franco

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Atravesando el Cuerpo: Arboreal Cartographies: La Linea
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Rachel Gorgas

    Rachel Gorgas

    World Literature & Culture major

    Thesis Title: The Comedy of Manners, Social Responsibility, and Cancel Culture: A Seemingly Endless Thesis for Cerebral People
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Fartoon Hagi-Mohamed

    Fartoon Hagi-Mohamed

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Walaalo
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Ryan Harper

    Ryan Harper

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Dying in Moreland
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Angelica Ilagan

    Angelica Ilagan

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: In My Father's House Are Many Rooms
    Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

  • Natalie Knudsen

    Natalie Knudsen

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Technological Trauma in Dystopian Fiction: Watch Me on Your Video Phone
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • August Laubscher

    August Laubscher

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Uncanny
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Cameron LaZenberry

    Cameron LaZenberry

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Neutral Territory
    Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

  • Marina Lee

    Marina Lee

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: King Artemis and Their Familial Pocket
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • David London

    David London

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: An Exploration of Various Words, Ideas, Concepts, and Other Terms Both Similar and Different to Those: A Glossary
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Anna Lynch

    Anna Lynch

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: My True Self
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Scotlyn MacDonald

    Scotlyn MacDonald

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Seastead
    Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

  • Cameron Mefford

    Cameron Mefford

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Thasimia
    Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

  • Katrina Ngo

    Katrina Ngo

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Between Two Earths
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Arianna Nuñez

    Arianna Nuñez

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Fire and the Lake
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Sharon Park

    Sharon Park

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Psalmist
    Thesis Advisor: Kazim Ali

  • Victoria Pham

    Victoria Pham

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: I Dreamt of You: A Ghost Story
    Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

  • Ryan Phung

    Ryan Phung

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Conqueror: A Play in Three Acts
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Emily Ramsey

    Emily Ramsey

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Threshing Floor
    Thesis Advisor: Kazim Ali

  • Rachel Seo

    Rachel Seo

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Counterfaith House
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Juliana Swanson

    Juliana Swanson

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Somewhere in Between: A Memoir
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Summer Thai

    Summer Thai

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Agent's Memories are Confidential
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Yuling Wong

    Yuling Wong

    Literatures of the World major

    Thesis Title: A Tale of Three Nations: Unpacking the Positional and Affective Complexities of Inter-Asian Colonialism across Japan, Singapore and Korea
    Thesis Advisor: Jin-kyung Lee

  • Emily Wurst

    Emily Wurst

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Women, Simulations, and Ghosts
    Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer