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2021-2022 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 2021-2022 winners are noted below.

  • Kelly Bibiano

    Kelly Bibiano

    Literatures in Spanish major

    Thesis Title: La loca-madre-sidaria: cuerpo materno en "Loco Afán: crónicas de sidario" (1997) de Pedro Lemebel
    Thesis Advisor: Carol Arcos H.

  • Carolina Calderon

    Carolina Calderon

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Bursting Out of Me: The Exploration of Charles Bukowski’s Outsiderdom, Mythicization, and Identification
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Erin Chun

    Erin Chun

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Billy
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Kaitlin Clemmer

    Kaitlin Clemmer

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Boys’ Violence Against Us Was Allowed: On Dis/Appearance
    Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

  • Haley Del Pozo

    Haley Del Pozo

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: How Ghosts and the Supernatural Are Used in Chicanx Gothic Literature as an Embodiment of Generational Trauma
    Thesis Advisor: Ariana Ruiz

  • Emily Downey

    Emily Downey

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Holy Spring
    Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

  • Elena Escalante

    Elena Escalante

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Ticking, Stop!, Clock & I survived You
    Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

  • Jennifer Fagan

    Jennifer Fagan

    World Literature & Culture major

    Thesis Title: Man, Immortal, and Myth: An Analysis of the Children’s Literature Series "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and its Relationship to Generation Z
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Amaya Guzman

    Amaya Guzman

    Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: A Statement on Motherhood
    Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

  • Montanna Harling

    Montanna Harling

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Divisions
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Joyous Herron

    Joyous Herron

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Untitled
    Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

  • Ashley Hirao

    Ashley Hirao

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: I Find My Screams: A Life (and Death) in Five Acts
    Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

  • Hannah Johnson

    Hannah Johnson

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: BookTok and the Formation of a New Literary Canon: Queer Theory Vs. Cruel Optimism
    Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

  • Isaac Kopstein

    Isaac Kopstein

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Twelve Tribes: A Remixing and Retelling of "The Book of Exodus"
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Penni LeMasters

    Penni LeMasters

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Introversion in Literature: Understanding How Introversion is Often Misunderstood and Misrepresented in Literature
    Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

  • Anna Lim

    Anna Lim

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

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Prismatic Visualities: Refraction of the Asiatic Identity in Animation
    Thesis Advisor: Daisuke Miyao

  • Walter Marino

    Walter Marino

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Up, Up, Into the Mountain And Something In the Way?
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Kali Mitchell-Silbaugh

    Kali Mitchell-Silbaugh

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Memories on Trial
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Minnie Nelson

    Minnie Nelson

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Beginning to Burn
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Ishika Rathi

    Ishika Rathi

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Mauth: Where I left my Guru
    Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

  • Todd Tolson

    Todd Tolson

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Pound and Cavalcanti
    Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

  • Sammy Truong

    Sammy Truong

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Reigniting the Phoenix: Centering Chinese Feminine Rage in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
    Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

  • Katelyn Wang

    Katelyn Wang

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Treasures are Saved: Movements of Paper and People
    Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

  • Emma Wellmeyer

    Emma Wellmeyer

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: your footsteps left a pattern like a ghost’s on Saturn
    Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

  • Alina Woods

    Alina Woods

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Mekhi
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc