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English Major News
Donald R. Zander Award for Outstanding Student Leadership: Marina Kuperman and Ian Taylor, Jr.
President’s Student Leadership and Service Award: Marina Kuperman and Ian Taylor, Jr.
Beinecke Scholarship for Graduate Study: Edward M. Chappell
Paul & Lucienne Taylor Internship Grant: Lauryn Heineman and Christina Leighton
ArtWords Winners: Matthew Bruch-Andersen, first place; Jessica Eckerstorfer, second place; Makenzie Flom, third place; Dylan Scott, honorable mention
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Awards for English Majors:
- Edward Chappell, “’Till thou applaud the deed’: Milton as a Reader of Macbeth” (Faculty Mentor: David Haley)
- Liandra Sy, “An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World: A Translation of Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Miknasi’s Travelogues” (Faculty Mentor: Nabil Matar)
- Lily O’Hara-Brantner, “Making Sense of the Wreckage: A Gender-based Analysis of Accuser and Storyteller Constructs in Shakespearean Tragedies” (Faculty Mentor: Shirley Garner)
183 graduates: 47 in fall 2014 and 136 planned for spring and summer 2015
Honors Graduates
cum laude: Ian Taylor, Jr.
magna cum laude: Mark Engelmann, Patrick Gaffney, Allison Haberstroh, Brittany Kammerer, Mollie Lacy, Joslyn Lillion, Lily O’Hara-Brantner, Lindsey Pastorek, Shelby Schirmer, Chanse Shirley
summa cum laude (thesis written in other department): Maria Brekke (History) and Geneva Cole (Political Science)
summa cum laude theses:
- Claire Bramel, “Uncharted Waters: Refusing to Let Edna Drown” (Adviser: Qadri Ismail)
- Laura Burnes, “The DeWitt Dilemma” (Adviser: Maria Fitzgerald)
- Sarah Carlson, “Copyright Nation: American Imitation and Identity in Mark Twain and Henry James” (Adviser: Paula Rabinowitz)
- Brandon Cooper, “Power Structures and Ideology: The Threat of Authorship in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw” (Adviser: Qadri Ismail)
- Sean Hirthe, “Trails End” (Adviser: Charles Baxter)
- Emily Humbert, “The Dismal Science and its Dickensian Antidote: An Investigation into Charles Dickens’ Portrayal of Political Economy in his Novels and Journalism” (Adviser: Michael Hancher)
- Han Li, “The Structures of Bad Faith: An Existentialist Understanding of The Unconsoled” (Adviser: Lois Cucullu)
- Cecilia Mazumdar Stanger, “Feeding Creativity: A Kid’s Guide to Minnesota Produce” (Adviser: Lianna Farber)
- Joseph Schiltz, “The Darkest Evening of the Year” (Adviser: Maria Fitzgerald)
- Sam Segal, “The Authority on Tragedy” (Adviser: Charles Baxter)
- Liandra Sy, “The Violence of Language: A Critique of Ideological Authorship in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe” (Adviser: Qadri Ismail)
- Marissa Tarr, “Deirdre, Daughter of Ireland” (Advisor: Andrew Scheil)
- Katherine Werdick, “Letters and Self-Representation: A Study of the Barrett-Browning Correspondence” (Adviser: Elaine Auyoung)
2015-16 Scholarship Winners
CLA Talle Family Scholarship: Julie Sinn
CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarship: Laura Schmidt
Sharon Borine Scholarship: Sarah Brewer and Allison Kent
Jessie M. Comstock Scholarship: Grace Schleisman
Joan C. Forester Scholarship: David Echavez-Valdez and Melissa Jones
Donald V. Hawkins Scholarship: Jennifer Andersen, Jessica Belt, Henry Bielenberg, Allison Dohnalek, Lianna Matt, Lucas Paulson, Laura Schott, Abigail Schnobrich, and Anne Thompson
Robert Etheridge Moore Scholarship: Anna Posbergh
Captain Dewitt Jennings Payne Memorial Scholarship: See Moua and Morgan Poepping
Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz Phelan Scholarship: Madelyn Musick
Mark David Clawson Award for outstanding summa cum laude thesis: Sarah Carlson and Cecilia Mazumdar Stanger
BA Alumnae/i News
Susanne Aspley (BA 1988) was awarded one of four Loft McKnight Artist Fellowships
for Writers of $25,000. She released her debut novel, Ladyboy and the Volunteer, in December 2014. She is also the author of I Know How to Hola and I Know How to Ni Hao, bilingual books for children in language immersion.
Maria Bamford (BA 1993) was awarded CLA Alumni of Notable Achievement recognition this spring for her work as a "talented and courageous comedian and actor."
Marc Halsey (BA 2006) is currently a Writer/Producer for the television series Dominion on Syfy. He previously wrote for ABC's Brothers & Sisters and CW's The Carrie Diaries and Star-Crossed. He recently spoke at Brazil's International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro.
Abdiasis Hirsi (BA 2012) was featured in the MPR News feature story "East African Teachers Connect with Younger Versions of Themselves."
John Jodzio (BA 1999) published the story chapbook You Cannot Give Yourself a Nickname (Rusty Toque).
Sam Kean (BA 2002) published an article in The Atlantic Monthly, "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Giving." His most recent book is The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Little Brown, 2014).
