Twenty-Seventh Annual English Awards Day Ceremony

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Prof. Thomas M. Clayton, Chair, Department of English

Keynote Address

• Jane Vance, Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
  UK English Department and Honors Program

Writing Program Awards

First-Year Essay Winner

First Place

• Jon D. Christensen (Instructor: Katherine Varnes)
  “For Mummy—Some Love, But Mostly Squalor”

Second Place (Co-winners)

• Ryan Edward Domyan (Instructor: Stephen Blount)
  “A Eulogy for the Iraqi Cause”
• Mary Kathryn Johnston (Instructor: Amanda Wray)
  “Bond, Reading Bond”

First-Year Essay Honorable Mention

• Kelly Ranae Duffy (Instructor: Alison Caldwell)
  “Starbucks is the Devil”
• Jaclyn Michelle Hawkins (Instructor: Kathryn S. Crutcher)
  “Ditching Meat”
• Zachary Michael Hester (Instructor: Darci Thoune)
  “A Way of Life”

Teaching Awards

Outstanding Writing Program Teaching Assistant

• Randee Dax Jennings

Outstanding Writing Program Instructor
Co-winners:

• Kathryn S. Crutcher and Kelly J. Feinberg

Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Literature or Film
Co-Winners:

• Sean Michael Dummit and Lisa Schroot-Mitchum

Writing Program Excellent Instructors

• Alison Lanae Caldwell
• Kathryn S. Crutcher
• Kelly J. Feinberg
• Randee Dax Jennings
• Katherine Dunagan Osborne

Undergraduate Awards

Dantzler-Dantzler Award for Academic Achievement by a Senior

• Katrina Boone Basham

O. J. & Ruby Wilson Scholarship for Outstanding Senior

• Anna HeeSook Slyh

John S. Gatton Provost Scholarship in Arts & Sciences

• Andrew Ernst Crown-Weber

Barbara Sutton Cowles Scholarship to an Outstanding Senior, 2008

• Melissa Paige Bone

Bill Bridges Scholarship for Outstanding First-Generation College Graduate Majoring in English

• Joshua T. Bailey

Michael Adelstein Award for Prospective High School Teachers

• Christopher Allen DeLotell

Best Undergraduate Essay in a Literature or Film Class
Co-winners:

• Bianca Jade Karla Bargo (Instructor: Leah Bayens)
  “Location, Location, Location: Relevance of Geography in Song of Solomon”
• Matt Cumberland Jordan (Instructor: Colleen Glenn)
  “Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: What the Hell Do We Do Now?

Imaginative Writing Awards

Broadside Poetry Contest
Undergraduate Winner:

• Andrew Lee Champion

Graduate Winner:

• Colleen Marie Glenn

Farquhar Award for Poetry

• Catherine Cole Turner
  “The Dead Horse Sestina”

Honorable Mention

• Jordan Brown
  “In the Future We Won’t Need Pallbearers”
• Alexander Jay Klehfoth
  “Tammy”
• Rachel Ann Stratton
  “Heart”

Dantzler Award for Fiction

• Sara Andrew
  “Lion Guard”

Honorable Mention

• Zephania Bostow
  “Cereal Killer, Sort Of”
• Jordan Brown
  “The Mirage”
• Kari Rose Evely
  “The Tree”
• Matthew Tyler Klette
  “Some Wear Hats, Others Wear Red”
• Ian Min Ho Scheideberg
  “The Train Station”

Graduate Awards

Ellershaw Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Candidate
Co-winners:

• Hannah Cowles Freeman and Virginia Bucurel Engholm

Bryan Chair Graduate Conference Prize Paper
Co-winners:

• Leah Elizabeth Bayens
  “The Wide, Wide World and Its ’Backwoods’ Specimens: Susan Warner’s Republican, Experiential Education”
• George Micajah Phillips
  “Becoming, Difference, and Repetition in Wilde’s Aesthetic Encounters”

William J. Sowder Award for Best Graduate Student Critical Paper
Co-winners:

• Colleen Marie Glenn
  “The Traumatized Veteran: James Stewart’s Postwar Roles in Film”
• Abigail Irene Tripp
  “Saving the Father? Reversing Parricide and Preserving Jewish Immigrant Experience in The Jazz Singer”
• Ben Wathen Black Scholarship in English Literature
  Colleen Marie Glenn

Departmental Honors

(GPA of 3.75 or Higher)

• Andrew Marcus Alliston
• Katrina Boone Basham
• Joshua E. Bobbitt
• Melissa Paige Bone
• Joshua Kane Bush
• Sarah Jackson Cole
• Andrew Ernst Crown-Weber
• Deborah Sue Drury
• Meghan Elizabeth Hammack
• Karen Elizabeth Langer
• Ashlee Morgan Saylor
• Anna HeeSook Slyh                    
• Molly Kathryn Smith
• Dorney Reed Thompson

Graduates
(August 2007–May 2008)

Ph.D.

• Bessie Lee Fox 
• Anna Katherine Froula
• Mary K. Hall
• Kenneth Carr Hawley 
• Jessica Lexie Hollis
• Danny Mayer
• Sean Michael Morris
• Charles Hampton Poff Jr.          
• Melissa Marie Purdue
• Clarence William Tweedy III

M.A.

• Brooke Ashley Barker
• Krista E. Callahan-Caudill
• Gregory Lee Miller 
• John Andrew Moreman 
• Gregory Richard Ruppert
• June Marie Whitt

B.A.

• Scotty Ray Adkins
• Daniel Royse Aken
• Andrew Marcus Alliston 
• Jennifer Elvira Alonso
• Meghan Theresa Arrell
• Joshua Tyler Bailey
• Katrina Boone Basham               
• Justin Crockett Belisle  
• Laurel Ann Benson
• Joshua Gregory Berkley
• Katharine Farnworth Bindner
• Joshua E. Bobbitt
• Melissa Paige Bone 
• Amanda Marie Burkholder
• Joshua Kane Wendell Bush       
• Christa Marie Cardone
• Sarah Nichole Caston
• Joshua S. Clark
• Sarah Jackson Cole       
• Amber Lenora Cooper
• Kristin Nicolle Crawford
• Leanna Dawn Crawford
• Samuel Andrew Crawford
• Andrew Ernst Crown-Weber
• John Michael Dickens  
• Nicholas Dante Dimengo
• Deborah Sue Drury
• Diana Marie Elias
• Kari Rose Evely
• Anita Michelle Fleming
• Leslie Anne Friley
• Kate Alexandra Garmon
• Danielle Marie Goodman           
• Lance Andrew Granger
• Meghan Elizabeth Hammack 
• Mary Ragan Hardin
• John Christopher Heltzel
• Megan Skye Hogan
• Kathryn Jean Shannon Hogg
• Grayson Tyler Johnson
• Leonard Bradley Johnson
• Tiara S. Johnson
• Emily K. Jones
• Jerrece Calvae Jones
• Stephanie Lauren Joseph
• Joshua Caleb Jude
• Allison Anne Kapteina
• Kimberly Teresa Kelly
• Katie Elizabeth Klein
• Matthew Tyler Klette
• Kirsten Vance Kramer
• Katherine Laney Kubale
• Karen Elizabeth Langer 
• Eric T. Little
• Kathleen Rose Loerch
• Allison Christina Lohr                
• Jacynthia Mechelle Mackin
• Bridget Sullivan Malaney           
• Lauren Marie May
• Lesley Anne Mayberry
• Melanie Christina McConathy
• Malissia Clark Milburn
• Jeremy Scott Miracle     
• Elissha Claire Moore
• Stephen Daniel Morgan
• Katharine Leigh Mudd
• Michelle Deanna Mullins
• Alan James Newell
• Lauren McKaye Newsome
• Whitney Chase Nichols              
• Sarah Lynne Pendery
• Jessica Kathryn Pennington      
• Brendan Patrick Petit
• Benjamin Kenneth Piech
• Leah Catherine Powers
• Robert Bruce Quan       
• Savanna Renee Ratliff
• Lora Elizabeth Riggs
• Matthew Kellon Robinson
• Michael Edward Robinson
• Hannah Grace Rogers 
• Mathew Sam Samuel
• Ashlee Morgan Saylor 
• Dariush A.. Shafa
• Anna HeeSook Slyh 
• John Patrick Smith
• Molly Kathryn Smith 
• Eric Steven Smither
• Anna Bacot Snyder
• William Guy Spriggs
• Aaron Jacob Stephenson
• Andrew Douglas Stone
• Georgia Donelle Stone
• Kristen Michelle Sullivan
• Margaret Regina Sullivan
• Brooke Erin Takacs
• Dorney Reed Thompson             
• Jonathan Townsend
• Matthew John Valade
• Andrew Harrington Van Lahr
• Carrie Ann Welsh 
• Whitney Brett Wilgus
• Emma Marceline Williams
• Matthew Thomas Williams
• William Palmer Yoakum
• Madelyn Rae Young