Honors
Students in the Department of English who have a strong undergraduate record in the Department and who complete an approved BA Project that is judged to be of the highest quality by the graduate student preceptor, faculty advisor, and Director of Undergraduate Studies graduate with departmental honors. Honors recommendations are made to the Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division by the department and it is the Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division who makes the final decision.
Awards
The Janel Mueller Undergraduate Thesis Prize (formerly known as the Napier Wilt Prize) is awarded to the undergraduates in English who complete the finest BA Projects. Nominations are submitted by the Projects' faculty advisor and awarded in the Spring quarter.
2023-2024 recipients:
- MANON THEODOLY, "Contentious Bodies and Transgressive Voices: ‘Articulating Spaces’ and Imaginative Resistance in Mahsa Mohebali’s In Case of Emergency and Nasim Marashi’s I’ll Be
Strong for You" - SAMMY ZIMMERMAN, "Haunted Empire: Gothic Japanism in British Literature of the Fin de Siècle"
2022-2023 recipients:
- JONATHAN BADONSKY
- EMILY CHENG
- SIMONE GULLIVER
2021-2022 recipients:
- VIVIAN LEI
- MADISON THAN
- AVIVA WALDMAN
2020-2021 recipients:
- NICOLAS PENO
- ALEXA PERLMUTTER
- RENEE WEHRLE
- IMAAN YOUSUF
The Dunn Research Prize is designed to contribute towards expenses of rising fourth-year students as they work on a major piece of writing or research, such as a BA Project. Applications, which consist of a proposal, preliminary budget, and letter of support from a faculty member, are due early in Spring Quarter. Funds must be used in the summer following the winner’s third year in the college.
Students who are awarded this prize will be expected to send the Director of Undergraduate studies a short report (1-2 pages) about their work by the beginning of the third week in Fall Quarter. For questions about the Dunn Research Prize, please contact the Student Affairs Assistant.
2022-2023 recipients:
- JORDAN GOODWIN
- HONOR TORRANCE
- JIAYI WANG
2021-2022 recipients:
- ISABELLE ANDERSON
- LILLIE-ROSE TRITT
- JONATHAN BADONSKY
2020-2021 recipients:
- VIVIAN LEI
- MALLORY MOORE
- AVIVA WALDMAN
Past successful proposals have included:
- identification of archives, materials, and sites of expertise that the student hopes to engage
- a narrow enough vision that the student can reasonably make significant progress towards their research goals over the summer
- a precise sense of how the prize money will be used
- how the project builds from past research interests and/or supports a project the student is about to undertake