English Department Allen Grossman Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis
Ethan Miller, 2022 - "Manhood in the Wake of Trauma: Hypermasculinity and Healing in The Things They Carried, Beloved, and The Sorrow of War"
Quinn Weiner, 2021- "The Polysemy of "Gender Identity" in Recent Sociological, Psychological, and Feminist Theory Journals"
Esther Bley, 2020- "Calamity Jane: Ain’t No Buckin’ Around, the Woman Who Wore Buckskin. A Thesis on the Adaptations that Mythologized and Developed a Character’s Queerness"
English Department Award for Outstanding English Essay
Max Wolff, 2022 - "Striking through the Pasteboard Mask: The Perils of Metaphysical Truth in the Gothic Tradition"
Siena DeBenedittis, 2021- "What if I’m in Charge of My Own Light Switch? What if I’m Not?: Maslow’s Theory of Self-Actualization in Stories of Twins Coming of Age"
Prue Ross, 2020- "'From thy State Mine never shall be parted': Divorce in Paradise Lost"
Renee B. Lang Prize in Literature, given yearly to recognize an outstanding senior honors project in a literature major
Amy Jarkow, 2023 - "The Black Bard Raps as Gaeilge: Analyzing the Irish language in Irish rap by Black artists"
Cassie Schifman, 2022 - "The Picture Isn't Dorian Gray: Cultural Uptake and Intertextuality in Oscar Wilde Adaptations"
Caroline Greaney, 2021- "Invisible Enemy, Visible Harm: Unearthing Traces of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in Tolkien’s Middle-earth"
Nyomi White, 2020- "50 Shades of Copyright: The Legality of Fanfiction in Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey"
American Poets Honorary Prize
Cayenn Landau, 2020
Sarah Terrazano, 2019, 2018
Imogen Rosenbluth, 2017
Jackson Holbert, 2016
Andrew Grossbardt '72 Memorial Poetry Prize
Jingyi Wang, 2023 - "Sour-Sweet Sonnet"
Armando Hazaveh Salazar, 2022 - "So It Goes: Circles"
Lissa Sangree-Calabrese, 2021- "Knight in the Rear-View Mirror"
Linfei Yang, 2020
Sarah Terrazano, 2019
Rachael Hershon, 2018
Margot Farnet, 2017
Ashley Simmons, 2017
Anna Massefski, 2017
Arielle Ballard, 2016
Andrew Grossbardt '72 Memorial Prize for Best Poem Published in a Brandeis Literary Journal
Grace Danqing Yang, 2023 - "Unit 731"
Lila Goldstein, 2022 - "Good Mother"
Caroline O, 2021
Nico Léger, 2020
Rebecca Kahn, 2018
Clayre Benzadon, 2017
Arielle Gordon, 2016
Andrew Grossbardt '72 Memorial Prize for Senior Thesis in Fiction
Lindsey Odorizzi, 2023 - "Tell Me What This Is"
Lily Darling, 2022 - "Not Forgiveness, but Something Close"
Isaac Haber, 2021- “Broken Seas”
Tafara Gava, 2020- "The Philosopher's Widow"
Hannah Sussman, 2019
Raphael Stigliano, 2018
Gwenyth Fraser, 2017
Ryan Molloy, 2016
Bernard H. Herman '08 Endowed Prize in Creative Writing
Autumn Bellan, 2023
Sam Wachman, 2022
Nico Léger, 2021- identified patient
Tafara Gava, 2020, 2018
Kevin Costa, 2020
Otis Fuqua, 2019
Matthew Manning, 2017
Elaine Mancini, 2016
Boston Intercollegiate Poetry Festival Prize
Lindsey Odorizzi, 2023 - "Monotony"
Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Fiction Award (Fiction, Laurel Moon)
Lindsey Odorizzi, 2023 - "Lady's Home"
Katy Tanzer, 2022 - "Fade"
Isaac Haber, 2021- “Broken Seas”
Violet Fearon, 2020
Otis Fuqua, 2018
Santiago Montoya, 2017
Gwenyth Fraser, 2016
Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Memorial Prize for a Senior Thesis
Linnea Pejcha, 2022 - "Some Other Young Girl"
Emi Cohen, 2021- “I Novel, You Novella: an Autobiography of Three People”
Abby Berkower, 2020- "Kainan na! (Time to Eat)"
Morgan Mayback, 2019
Sarah Duffett, 2017
Sam Yoo, 2016
Dorothy Blumenfeld Moyer Memorial Award
Autumn Bellan, 2023 - "What is Not Mine to Name"
Emily Riordan, 2022 - "What You Will and What you Cannot: Transgressions, Carnival, and Twelfth Night"
Ramon Feliciano Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Autumn Bellan, 2023 - "the barbary dove pays me a visit"
Lily Darling, 2022 - "skinny dipping in mid-june, there are nightfishers on the beach"
Lily Darling, 2021
Haley Brown, 2020
Rebecca Kahn, 2019
Sarah Terrazano, 2018
Jackson Holbert, 2017
Arielle Ballard, 2016
Susan Mae Green Award for Creativity in Poetry and Photography
Autumn Bellan, 2023
Uma Jagwani, 2021- "Light Enters The Body As Questions"