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2022 English Awards Day

This year’s Awards Day event took place in the Esports Theatre Gallery, UKFCU Esports Lounge, 

Undergraduate, Graduate, Creative Writing, and Faculty awards

Keynote Address

Professor DaMaris Hill

 

2022 English Alumnus Award

Dr. Jeff Zurcher (BA ‘98), The Calipari Foundation

 

2022 English Alumna Award

Dr. Salome Nnoromele (PhD ‘95), Interim Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, Ohio University

 

Watch the video of the entire presentation here: https://english.as.uky.edu/video/2022-english-awards-day

 

Download the electronic program here: https://english.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/2022%20Awards%20Day%20Program_0.pdf

 

 

Dantzler-Dantzler Award for Academic Achievement by a Senior

• Alex Stoeckle

 

O.J. & Ruby Wilson Scholarship for an Outstanding Senior

• Hailey Combs

 

Patricia and William Stacy Endowed Fellowship in Undergraduate English Education

• Deidra White

 

Julester Shrady Post Memorial Scholarship

• Clayton Dalton

• Hannah Timmerman

 

Barbara Sutton Cowles Scholarship for an Outstanding Senior

• Tanner Eckstein

• Jorden Keator

 

Michael Adelstein Award for Prospective High School Teachers of English

• Sam Johnson

 

Bill Bridges Scholarship for an Outstanding First-Generation College Graduate Majoring in English

• Alex Stoeckle

 

Sigma Tau Delta-Meritorious Service

• Jorden Keator

 

William Hugh Jansen Undergraduate Award for Distinguished Writing

• Deidra White, “Woodstock”

• Claire McKinney, “The Sea Close, the Sky Closer”

 

Best Undergraduate Essay in 200-Level Course

• Ian Harrison, “Ethnic Zombification: Get Out and Night of the Living Dead”

• Meghan Brockhman, “Rom Coms and Regency” - Honorable Mention

 

Best Digital Project in a 200-level Literature and Film Course - Individual Project

• Haley Patterson, “Isolation: Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper”

• Clayton Dalton, “Murder, She Wrote,” - Runner up

 

Distinction for Best Digital Project in a 200-level Literature and Film Course - Group Project

• Shayla Anaskevich, Jordan Balleza, Alexis Feltner, Michelle Jelencic, and Emma Plaxico, “The Relationships of Sisters in the Aftermath of a Missing Father Figure”

 

John Spalding Gatton Provost Scholarship

• Paige Johnson

 

2022 Provost Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

• Emily Naser-Hall

 

Ellershaw Award for an Outstanding PhD Candidate

• Jessica Van Gilder

 

William J. Sowder Award For Best Graduate Student Critical Paper

• Alex Gergely

• Hannah Schultz

 

Ben Wathen Black Memorial Graduate Scholarship in British Literature

• Katie Kohls

 

Patricia and William Stacy Endowed Fellowship in Graduate English Education

• Shannon Branfield

 

Robert L. Doty English Graduate Support Fund

• B Bailey

• Caitlin Coulter

 

Betty Combs Owen Recruitment Scholarship

• Savannah Bowen

 

Dantzler-Farquhar Award for Creative Writing

• Nonfiction: Dorothy Moore, “Mae, Make the Fire”

• Fiction: Blake Gidley, “Seasick”

• Poetry: Deidra White, “Meihua”

 

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Award

• Nonfiction: Lucy Jayes, “Survival Kit”

• Fiction: Allegra Solomon, “True Blue”

• Poetry: Alfonso Zapata, “Perishable Goods”

 

Nikky Finney Graduate Fellowship

• Incoming: Jazmin Witherspoon

• Returning: Kasimma

 

Outstanding MFA Teaching Assistant

• Betsy Packard

 

The Paul and Alice Richardson Creative Writing Scholarship

• Tyler Patton

 

UK Libraries King Library Press Poetry Broadside Contest

• Undergraduate: Atticus Combs

• Graduate: Betsy Packard

 

William Hugh Jansen Award

• NitaJade

 

2022 A&S Faculty Promotion of Diversity or Inclusion Award

• Crystal Wilkinson

 

2022 A&S Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award

• Marion Rust

 

2022 A&S Faculty and Teaching Awards in the Humanities

• Regina Hamilton-Townsend

 

2022 A&S Staff Diversity and Inclusivity Award

• Kristen Pickett

 

2022 Provost Outstanding Teaching Award for Faculty

• Regina Hamilton-Townsend

 

Ellen Rosenman Distinguished Faculty Award

• Crystal Wilkinson

 

Twenty-Five Years of Service

• Michael Carter

 

Faculty Retirements

• Walter Foreman, 50 years of service. Retiring July 2022

• Gurney Norman, 43 years of service. Retiring December 2022

• Armando Prats, 47 years of service. Retiring July 2022

 

Graduate Degrees

 

MA

Mark Hines

Sue Mize

Jamison Stoike

 

MFA

Kevin Bond

Chioma Ezeano

Payton Howard

Shanita Jackson

Betsy Packard

Allegra Solomon

 

PhD

Shannon Branfield

Kathryn McClain

 

Undergraduate Degrees

 

Haley Abrams

Madeleine Bittancourt

Asa Brackett *

Hailey Combs * ΣΤΔ

Jerri Cook

Clayton Dalton *

Tanner Eckstein *

Katherine Elliott

Dillon Ellzey *

Jalynn Felton

Blake Gidley

Kaelyn Harris *

Emmajean Hearty

Samuel Johnson

LaNina Jones

Jorden Keator * ΣΤΔ

Madison Krogman

Bethany Lawless

Ava Lawrey

Lisa Lawton

Jessie Lemaster

Noah Mattox

Claire McKinney *

Teresa Mehaffey

Katilin Meredith

Rachel O’Rourke *

Natalie Parks *

Bay Phillips

Benjamin Rigney

Destiny Robertson

Victoria Robinson *

Rachaell Scott

Eliot Sharp

Madison Spray

Sierra Stewart

Alexandra Stoeckle

Shelby Stratton

Hannah Timmermann * ΣΤΔ

Ryan Walker

Deidra White *

Emma Wicke

 

* Graduating with Honors

ΣΤΔ Sigma Tau Delta

 

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