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Stylus Creative Arts Magazine

A School of English and Humanities publication celebrating the creativity of Midlands Technical College students

Tom Bonner Past Award Winners

Year

Student Name

Paper Title

Nominating Professor

2006

Abe Layman

An Analysis of Selected Dream Sequences in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Diane Luce

2007

John Leininger

Unfair Accusations of Racism Regarding Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Douglas Capps

2008

Eric Bell

Ancient Inequality and the Development of Our Sexual Caste System

Katherine Mille

2009

Ansley Gasque-Carter

Character Development and Subjectivity in The Color Purple

Diane Hirsch

2010

Mikaela Campbell

Wu Ch’eng-en’s Monkey as an Allegory for Buddhism

Nancy Kreml

2011

Phyleicia Dais

The Incorporation of Identity, Performance, and Disguise in Sixteenth-Century English Literature

Katherine Mille

2012

Rachel Hubata-Ashton

Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits: Examining Magical Realism as It Bears Witness to Life

Jan Jake

2013

Ali Robertson

The True Genius of Woman: Use of Genre to Embellish Meaning in 19th Century Works

Katherine Mille

2014 (co-recipients)

Richard Hahn

Speaking in Tongues: Stop Making Sense as a Postmodern Artifact

Keith Higginbotham

Hallie Van Camp

Tenets of Romanticism in 19th Century Literature: An Analysis

Vincent Cortese

2015

Caroline Anderson

New Subjects of Admiration: Romanticism in 19th Century Literature

Vincent Cortese

2016 (co-recipients)

Allison Refine

Romanticism in American Literature

Vincent Cortese

Kate Chatman

Uncovering the Evolution of Values through Early World Literature

Katherine Mille

2017

Samantha Velder

The Role of Disguise in 16th Century English Literature

Katherine Mille

2018

Travis Hiegl

Antigone: Character and Actions Analysis

Jan Jake

2019

Amber Infante

The Curious Case of Mina Murray

Michael Horton

2020

Joel Rogers

The Aeneid: A Window into Ancient Rome

Jan Jake

2021

Casper Sullivan 

Astro Boy, the Orphan Hero

Michael Horton

2022 (co-recipients)

Mary Micaela Riley 

Psychopathy and Sociopathy in Detective Fiction

Amy Hausser

2022 (co-recipients)

Quisto Costello 

Opportunities and Self-Made Persons in American Literature

Vincent Cortese

 


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