Annual Awards Ceremony!



The English Department will hold its annual awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 8, from 4-5 PM, in the Robert Spector Lounge on the 4th Floor of the Humanities Building. 

The faculty will present awards to undergraduate and graduate students including the Excellence in English Award, the Edward Edelman & Susanne Popper-Edelman English Essay Prizes, the Esther Hyneman Graduate Awards in Creative Writing, the Henning Award, the Parascondola Award, and the Schweizer Award. New Sigma Tau Delta inductees will also be announced.

Please join us to celebrate our award winners, whose names will be added to this post after the ceremony.

UPDATED June 19, 2013

Our congratulations to the English students who graduated during the preceding academic year!

May 2013

Dwayne Allen, MA
Camille Armstrong, BA
Jesenia Ayala, BA
Marita Downes, MFA
Albert Evans, BA
Tracey Ford, BA
Constance Gough, MA
Daphne Horton, BA
Chason Kim, BA
Elspeth Macdonald, MFA
Natalie Mamelko, BA
Mary McDaniel, BABryhana Moore, BA
Anne Marie Nelson-Ferguson, BA
Phyllis Noel, BA
Asja Parrish, MFA

Beverly Robinson, MA
Lisa Rogal, MFA
Christina Vallario, MA
Sarah Wallen, MFA

January 2013

Andrani Foster, BA
Giuseppe Infante, MFA
Jon Jenkins, MFA
Krystal Parkes, BA
Leslie Anne Rexach, BA
Kevin Reyes, MA
Sarah Reynolds, BA

September 2012

Alicia Berbenick, MFA
Patia Braithwaite, MFA
Micah Savaglio, MFA


The following are this year's award winners:


Sigma Tau Delta inductees

Victoria Abolencia
Gabrielle Betancourt
Samantha D'Acunto
Alanna Dawkins
Andrani Foster
Elizabeth Hernandez
Keeley Ibrahim
Donald Chase Melvin
Imani Nasir
Charlene Thelemaque
Krystal Walcott

Excellence in English Award, graduate

Alicia Berbenick
Patia Braithwaite
Constance Gough
Jon Jenkins
Elspeth Macdonald
Asja Parrish
Kevin Reyes
Lisa Rogal
Sarah Wallen

Excellence in English award, undergraduate

Andrani Foster
Daphne Horton
Keeley Ibrahim
Natalie Mamelko
Sarah Reynolds

Elaine Spielberg Award

Lakishia Brown

Louis & Ann Parascandola Graduate Award

Felice Belle
Lisa Rogal

Edward Edelman & Suzanne Popper-Edelman English Essay Prizes

Freshman Composition (English 14)

Jonathan McCarthy Assavero, "Change of Location, Change of Perspective," Professor Andrea Libin

Freshman Composition (English 16)

Sandy Mohsen, "The Educational System and ESL Students," Professor Thomas Peele

Core Literature (English 60s)

Kerby Anorjuste, "The Guy Code," Professor Jonathan Haynes

Upper Division

Marnelle Dorvil, "Marriage and Money: Contrasting Forces," Professor Maria McGarrity

The Esther Hyneman Awards

Fiction: Tiani Kennedy
Poetry: Daniel Owen



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