There are two annual undergraduate awards that are dedicated to the Honors Program thesis projects. The Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts is bestowed upon the highest rated literary arts thesis, and the Burckhardt Honors Award in Literary/Cultural Criticism is bestowed upon the highest rated literary/cultural criticism thesis. The 2021-2022 winners are noted below.
Kelly Bibiano
Literatures in Spanish major
Thesis Title: La loca-madre-sidaria: cuerpo materno en "Loco Afán: crónicas de sidario" (1997) de Pedro Lemebel
Thesis Advisor: Carol Arcos H.
Carolina Calderon
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Bursting Out of Me: The Exploration of Charles Bukowski’s Outsiderdom, Mythicization, and Identification
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Erin Chun
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Billy
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Kaitlin Clemmer
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: The Boys’ Violence Against Us Was Allowed: On Dis/Appearance
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza
Haley Del Pozo
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: How Ghosts and the Supernatural Are Used in Chicanx Gothic Literature as an Embodiment of Generational Trauma
Thesis Advisor: Ariana Ruiz
Emily Downey
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: The Holy Spring
Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer
Elena Escalante
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Ticking, Stop!, Clock & I survived You
Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer
Jennifer Fagan
World Literature & Culture major
Thesis Title: Man, Immortal, and Myth: An Analysis of the Children’s Literature Series "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and its Relationship to Generation Z
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Amaya Guzman
Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: A Statement on Motherhood
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes
Montanna Harling
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Divisions
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc
Joyous Herron
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Untitled
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes
Ashley Hirao
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: I Find My Screams: A Life (and Death) in Five Acts
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki
Hannah Johnson
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: BookTok and the Formation of a New Literary Canon: Queer Theory Vs. Cruel Optimism
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz
Isaac Kopstein
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: The Twelve Tribes: A Remixing and Retelling of "The Book of Exodus"
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Penni LeMasters
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Introversion in Literature: Understanding How Introversion is Often Misunderstood and Misrepresented in Literature
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz
Anna Lim
Winner of the Burckhardt Honors Award in Literary/Cultural Criticism!
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Prismatic Visualities: Refraction of the Asiatic Identity in Animation
Thesis Advisor: Daisuke Miyao
Walter Marino
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Up, Up, Into the Mountain And Something In the Way?
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc
Kali Mitchell-Silbaugh
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Memories on Trial
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Minnie Nelson
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Beginning to Burn
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc
Ishika Rathi
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Mauth: Where I left my Guru
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza
Todd Tolson
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Pound and Cavalcanti
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer
Sammy Truong
Literatures in English major
Thesis Title: Reigniting the Phoenix: Centering Chinese Feminine Rage in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz
Katelyn Wang
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Treasures are Saved: Movements of Paper and People
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes
Emma Wellmeyer
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: your footsteps left a pattern like a ghost’s on Saturn
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng
Alina Woods
Literature/Writing major
Thesis Title: Mekhi
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc