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      • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
      • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
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The John K. Kerr Award

Outstanding Major in English Literature

Recipients:

  • 2022 - Natalie Glasper
  • 2021 - Nicole Salama
  • 2020 - Sarah Trammell
  • 2019 - Laura Southern
  • 2018 - Amanda Hardy
  • 2017 - Stephanie Hoffman
  • 2016 - Kelly Kottmer
  • 2015 - Elizabeth Hill
  • 2014 - Brett Hager
  • 2013 - Miriam Hobma
  • 2012 - Bethany Naberhaus
  • 2011 - Claire Moncla
  • 2010 - Paige Panter and Hannah Weems
  • 2009 - Desirea Harris and Jenny Howell
  • 2007 - Rachel O'Neal and Claire St. Amant
  • 2006 - Robbie Arbour
  • 2005 - Lauren Dammon
  • 2004 - James Hamilton
  • 2003 - Amanda Rowan
  • 2002 - Kristi Ward, Lanie Millar
  • 2001 - Dustin Stewart, Katherine Yawn
  • 2000 - Crystal McFarlin
  • 1999 - Aimee Mosier
  • 1998 - Elizabeth Browning
  • 1997 - Clarissa Schoenhals
  • 1996 - Rachel Mines
  • 1995 - Amber Lewis
  • 1994 - Lisa Calhoun
  • 1993 - Mary Kathryn Stripling
  • 1992 - Dana Daniel
  • 1991 - Sara Madrazo
  • 1990 - Heather Barkley
  • 1989 - Pamela Corrigan

The Charles G. Smith Award

For Academic Excellence, Noble Character

Recipients:

  • 2022 - Sarah Tucker, Caelin Hoben, Lexi Stalling, & DA Smith
  • 2021 - Zachary Lippman, Jillian Clark, Peyton Ball, & Sarah Flores
  • 2020 - Delaney Pollard, Sarah Hill, & Edgar Gonzalez
  • 2019 - Caitlyn Rush & Andi Perkins
  • 2018 - Austin Gutzke, Chelsea Teague, Aaron Cobbs, & Parker Wright
  • 2017 - Angela Tharpe, Logan Merkle, & Kallie Damschen
  • 2016 - Courtenay Klauber, Jenna Press, & Christopher Yang
  • 2015 - Claire Henderson, Anne Yalamanchili, & Ada Zhang
  • 2014 - Amanda Mintz, Stephen Trebus, & Carrie Cooper
  • 2013 - Emily Tichenor, Maxcey Kite, & Tyler Bevan
  • 2012 - Amy Heard, Samantha Ogletree, & Lindsey Hurtt
  • 2011 - Rebecca Bovio & Audrey Johnson
  • 2010 - Megan Baldree & Jenny Bowen
  • 2009 - Mariela Lopez, Jaclyn Williams, & James Yarbrough
  • 2008 - Shawn Warner, Brittany Myers, & Deborah Goodnight
  • 2007 - Mary Woodward & Alison Rutledge
  • 2006 - Jenny Morrell
  • 2005 - Krista Glova & Natalie Butler
  • 2004 - Megan Mauldin
  • 2003 - Rebecca Cutbirth
  • 2002 - Allison Parish & Lindsay Fuller
  • 2001 - Justin Jones & Thomas Box
  • 2000 - Jennifer Thomas
  • 1999 - Sara Litton
  • 1998 - Kimberly Wright
  • 1997 - Angeline Chiu
  • 1996 - Shannon L. Turner
  • 1995 - Christopher Hair
  • 1994 - Mallorre Dill
  • 1993 - Charles Golden
  • 1992 - Bryan Goodwin
  • 1991 - David Whiteford
  • 1990 - Heather Smith
  • 1989 - Margaret Moody
  • 1988 - Keitrah Arnold
  • 1987 - Melanie Gurley
  • 1986 - Jill King
  • 1985 - Sharron Riesberg
  • 1984 - Mary Elizabeth Pierce-Petty
  • 1983 - Celeste Geier
  • 1982 - Evan Matthews
  • 1981 - Darlene Beaman
  • 1980 - Carrie S. Brown
  • 1979 - Phillip D. Sharp
  • 1978 - Marla J. Boozer
  • 1977 - Larry E. Hooper
  • 1976 - Emily Kellebrew
  • 1975 - Patti Pittman
  • 1974 - C. Stephen Finley
  • 1973 - Bob Alexander
  • 1972 - Louise Cain
  • 1971 - Anne Worley
  • 1970 - Rosemary Schwetman
  • 1969 - Diane Rankin Lintz
  • 1968 - Diane Lynn Wahl

The Roy Cornelius Award

The Year's Best Freshman Essay

Recipients:

  • 2022-2023: Caroline Graham and Honorable Mentions: Anna Templeton & Blakely Byrd
  • 2021-2022: Brock Burford and Honorable Mentions: Kailee Quinnell & Hannah Burgh
  • 2003-2004: Rachel Morehouse
  • 2000-2001: Daniel Warren
  • 1999-2000: Katherine McAdams
  • 1998-1999: Elizabeth Coggin
  • 1997-1998: Allison Hoffman
  • 1996-1997: Scott Bertrand
  • 1995-1996: Diana Safarik
  • 1994-1995: Tirzah Tyler
  • 1993-1994: Jennifer Simmons
  • 1992-1993: Dulce Villanueva
  • 1991-1992: Charmaine P. Mavarro
  • 1990-1991: Jennifer Aigner
  • 1989-1990: Sheron D. Cook
  • 1988-1989: Bonnie Breckenridge & Kristin Mulliner

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      • Hollow Palaces
      • Haunted Property
      • American Literary Cultures
      • Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
      • Modernism in the Green
      • A Long, Long Way
      • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
      • The Courage to See
      • The Evil Twins of American Television
      • Harvest Bells
      • Letters of a Long Name
      • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
      • Reforming Women
      • Thomas Hoccleve
      • Mark Twain Under Fire
      • Building Natures
      • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
      • Living with the Living Dead
      • The Life Group
      • Then Winter
      • Building Jerusalem
      • The Divine Face in Four Writers
      • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
      • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
      • Housework and Gender in American Television
      • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
      • Entertaining Judgment
      • Seamus Heaney's Regions
      • Elegy on Kinderklavier
      • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
      • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
      • The Tulip-Flame
      • The Glyph and the Gramophone
      • The Prodigal
      • Beyond the Pulpit
      • The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
      • Sylvia Plath's Fiction
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