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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

Each year, three grand prizes of $100.00 each and "honorable mentions" of $25.00 each are awarded for the BEST STUDENT ESSAYS WRITTEN FOR AN ENGLISH CLASS during the previous Spring , Fall or Winter quarters. Essays are submitted to Linda Nellany in the English Department Office, 1205 HMNSS during April of each year. Winners are announced at the end-of-the-year English Student Union party usually held in June.

Limit 1 essay per student. You need not be an English major to submit a paper to this contest. Essays should include a cover sheet stating the student's name, ID number, local address and phone, the title of the essay, the course and professor for which the essay was written, and the quarter the course was offered. The essay itself should include the title, but NOT the student's name.

RECIPIENTS

2005-2006:

Anne Sullivan
Dark Curiosity: Exploring the Subconscious in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”

Juliana Lee
Language as Culture in Mules and Men

Ariel Greenwood
Lolita: A Postmodern Heroine

Angelina Seto
Humbert Humbert’s De-centered Universe

Christine Vo
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Injection into Runaway Tongue

David Hannah
Religion and Divine Law

Spring 2002 Winners:

First prize winners:

  • Aaron Berkowitz
    Title:  Power-Knowledge Relations and the Female Body
  • Mei Lee
    Title:  On Guilt That Comes Full Circle: Recovering The Self In >Catfish and Mandala
  • Brian Frink
    Title:  Industry and Spirituality in Moby Dick

Honorable mentions:

  • Leslie Ahern
    Title:  Redemptive Qualities of Socrates Fortlow In Always >Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
  • Richard Contreras
    Title:  Surprised by Boredom: The Reader in Moby Dick
  • Rachel Gardner
    Title:  The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty: Shattering Abjection >Within the Poetry of Defiance
  • David Tellyer
    Title:  The Jesuit and Protestant Gaze Of The Native American Other

Spring 2001 Winners:

First prize:

  • Rachel Gardner
    Title:  Manifest Destiny:  The American Dream, The American Nightmare

Second prize:

  • Angel Reed
    Title:  Feminizing Of The Chinese

Honorable mentions:

  • Leila Monroe
    Title:  New Visions
  • Katie Chaires
    Title:  Sexual Identity in Typee and Moby-Dick

Spring 2000 Winners:

First prize: 

  • Patricia Ploesch
    Title: Blubber, the "Skin of the Skin": The Resistance to Ethnological Racism in Moby Dick.

Second prize:

  • Ryan Randall
    Title: "Tainted Love: The Anti-Hierarchical Discourse of Carnival Association in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV Parts One and Two"

Honorable mention: 

  • Michael Pollard
    Title: "Reflections on Whitman and Dickinson"

Spring 1999 Winners:

First prize: 

  • Kathleen Difani
    Title: "California Boundaries and Possibilities"

Second Prize:

  • Ryan Randall
    Title: "Strong Similarities and a Distinct Difference in Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale' and Boccaccio's 1:1"

Honorable Mentions:

  • Savita Bal
    Title: "American Women's Poetry and the Reclaiming of the Feminized Body"
  • Margaret Fajardo
    Title: "Are you Filipina, Maria Clara?: The Question of Cultural Identity in Michelle Cruz Skinner's 'Simbang Gabi' and Peter Bacho's 'Stephie'"