Robert Mayo Memorial Prize

2011

2nd Place

Ellen Maddy

"The Nature of Kingship in Richard II"

1st Place

Ed Krystosek
"When You Ain't Got Nothing, You Got Nothing to Lose. Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping as a Meditation on Trauma and Epistemology"

 

2010

2nd Place

Lindsey Kundel
"'As Bitter as Unrequited Love': An Emigrant's Tale of the Betrayer and the Betrayed."

1st Place

Kevin Soter
"'The Power of Blackness' and 'Insight into the Uncanny': Two Critical Approaches to Poe's 'The Black Cat.'"

 

2009

Maxwell Allison
"An Essy on 'An Essay on Criticism' - As Alexander Pope."

2008

Catherine DeRose
"The Convergence of the Public and Private Spheres in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and      South"

2007

Harris Sockel
"Angel Clare: Skepticism versus Religious Embodiment."

2006

Anna Markiewicz
"Hetty Sorrel and the Threat of Womanhood: Sexuality, Motherhood, and Infanticide in Adam Bede. "

2005

Annie H. Lee
"Sentimental Evangelism"

2004

Honorable Mention

Lindsay Johnson
"She Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore: The Sea and Poetic Authorship in Wallace
Stevens's 'The Idea of Order at Key West'"

2nd prize
Sakini Fakhri
"Reading Moral Absoluteness into Melville's Pierre"

1st prize
Daniel Marschinke
"Lockwood's Marginal Narrative: The Power of Gendered Narration in Wuthering Heights"

2003

David Baltmanis
"Lower Frequencies and the Higher Interests of Society."

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