2016 AwardsEnglish
Graduate Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
- Kelly Clayton
- Psyche Ready
- Liam Rogers
- Kathleen Rossell
- Alisa Russell
Sven Eric Molin Award
The Sven Eric Molin Prize provides an award in funds toward the education of a continuing graduate student in English of exceptional merit.
- Jennifer Ghani
Cynthia Wynn Herman Scholarship
The Cynthia Wynn Herman Scholarship honors a student over the age of 25, who has interests in English and Woman's Studies.
- Laurel Ferretti
Robert Karlson Award
The Robert Karlson prize provides a monetary award to the year's outstanding graduate student in the English Department's MA programs.
- Psyche Ready
Dan Rudy Fiction Prize
The Dan Rudy Fiction Prize for a single short story of 20 double-spaced pages or less.
- Sam Ashworth
Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize
The Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize for a single short story of 20 doubled-spaced pages or less.
- Sarah Bates
Mary Roberts Rinehart Poetry Award
- Jessica Capobianco
- Melanie Tague
- Q Wang
- Susan Woodruff
- Carina Yun
Mark Craver Poetry Award
- Jesse Capobianco
- Sarah McDonald
- Alayna Nagurny
- Katie Richards
- Melanie Tague
Virginia Downs EcoPoetry Award
The Virginia Downs Poetry Award is given for a single poem of 60 lines or less.
- Emily Green
- Douglas Luman
- Claudia Rojas
- Carina Yun
Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
The Joseph Lohman Poetry Prize is given for a single poem of 60 lines or less.
- Jesse Capobianco
- Emily Green
Undergraduate Awards
James L. Jackson Award
The James L. Jackson Prize provides funds to support the education at George Mason of a continuing undergraduate major in English of exceptional merit.
- Zella Christensen
Aileen Walls Award
The Aileen Walls Award provides a prize to an outstanding graduating English major.
- Christian Mincks
Dr. Barry Berkey Personal Essay Award
The Dr. Barry Berkey Personal Essay Award recognizes an outstanding non-fiction personal essay written by a junior or senior undergraduate English major.
- Chelsea Cripps
- Sharon Freeman
Graduation with Honors in English
- MarLa Lauber
- Sophia Rutti
- Chelsea Cripps
- Yanar Hashlomon
- Israel Kassim