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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