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2022-2023 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 2022-2023 winners are noted below.

  • Garrett Aja

    Garrett Aja

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Descendants of the Beasts
    Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

  • Frances Clara Barawid

    Frances Clara Barawid

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Borderline
    Thesis Advisor: Casandra Lopez

  • Abigail Chapuis

    Abigail Chapuis

    World Literature & Culture major

    Thesis Title: "David Copperfield’s" Obsession with Repression: Compulsory Sexuality in Literary Scholarship
    Thesis Advisor: Ameeth Vijay

  • Amy Cheng

    Amy Cheng

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: 100% Sweetness, Where the Loquats Land, and Dew by the Side of the Road
    Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

  • Kassandra Contreras

    Kassandra Contreras

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Forest of Mirrors
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Rosabella Debty

    Rosabella Debty

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Veritable Voices
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Maya Dilanian

    Maya Dilanian

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Armenian Women in Literature: Inheriting Generational Trauma and Coming to Terms with Identity Through Postmemory
    Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

  • Sophia Donner

    Sophia Donner

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Tomb is Empty
    Thesis Advisor: Marco Wilkinson

  • Kyoko Downey

    Kyoko Downey

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: banal na pagkababae: the divine feminine
    Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

  • Francesca Fox

    Francesca Fox

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: A Slice of Fear, a Bite of Pain
    Thesis Advisor: Marco Wilkinson

  • Lilyan Garside

    Lilyan Garside

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: The Woman Warrior: Reclaiming Sites of Violence in LeAnne Howe’s "Shell Shaker"
    Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

  • Camille Kittredge

    Camille Kittredge

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Unready & Unformed
    Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

  • Betina Kordahy

    Betina Kordahy

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: A Fractured Fandom Where Tolkien is the God-Author: A Review of the Theories of Authorship, Originality, and Adaptation
    Thesis Advisor: Sal Nicolazzo

  • Olivia Koutsky

    Olivia Koutsky

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Crystal Cove
    Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

  • Kayla Magnussen

    Kayla Magnussen

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Sleepeasy Motel
    Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

  • Alex Myers

    Alex Myers

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Coughing Up Flames
    Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

  • Lisa Nguyen

    Lisa Nguyen

    World Literature & Culture major

    Thesis Title: Grace Marks: How to Eat a Madwoman
    Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

  • Ambar Ornelas

    Ambar Ornelas

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Intersections of Gender Relations, Fear, and Shame in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
    Thesis Advisor: Lisa Lampert-Weissig

  • Zerui Pan

    Zerui Pan

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

    World Literature & Culture major

    Thesis Title: The Body and the Song: East Asian Women Writers Experimenting with a Feminine Mode of Science Fiction Writing
    Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

  • Briana Parker

    Briana Parker

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Emerging from Quicksand: Literary Wandering, Space-Making, and Inter-Cultural African American Female Sexuality
    Thesis Advisor: Meg Wesling

  • Zuleyka Reyes-Cerrillo

    Zuleyka Reyes-Cerrillo

    Literatures in English major

    Thesis Title: Jane Austen’s Enlightened Heroines: Growing Up Differently in "Mansfield Park" & "Pride and Prejudice"
    Thesis Advisor: Sal Nicolazzo

  • Yuliana Rocio

    Yuliana Rocio

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Consejos
    Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som

  • Gabriel Rojas

    Gabriel Rojas

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Mending the Separate, Filling the Space
    Thesis Advisor: Marco Wilkinson

  • Rhiannon Scray

    Rhiannon Scray

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Cracks Left Behind
    Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

  • Lindsay Shimono

    Lindsay Shimono

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: To Be Her
    Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

  • Sejal Spicely

    Sejal Spicely

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The River Took Mother
    Thesis Advisor: Meg Wesling

  • Michelle Staten

    Michelle Staten

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: if I fell in your forest, would you hear me? a visual/poetic exploration of dementia & intergenerational trauma
    Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

  • Aidan Tojino

    Aidan Tojino

    Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Boxer Codex
    Thesis Advisor: Jody Blanco

  • Riley Viola

    Riley Viola

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: The Valley
    Thesis Advisor: Casandra Lopez

  • Cathy Wynn

    Cathy Wynn

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Saudade
    Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som

  • Jasmine Wynn

    Jasmine Wynn

    Literature/Writing major

    Thesis Title: Fragile Body Pieces
    Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll