2009 Awards

2009 Writing and Outstanding Awards

Pedagogical Exposition

• First: D. Corey Sanderson—Open Letter: The Frivolus Nature of Simplified English $50
• Second: Brittany Matscherz—Advances in Education $25

Pedagogical Practice

• First: Elizabeth Blumer—Unit Plan: Persuasive Writing in Jane Eyre $50
• Second: Tiffany Ellsworth—Lesson Plan: The Phantom Tollbooth $25
• Third: Tahirou Samaila—Unit Plan: Teaching Field Research by Studying Subcultures $10

Expository

• First: Kali Rosenberger—The Domestication of Fences $50
• Second: Robbin Zirkle—Affirmation Outside of Beliefs $25
• Third: D. Corey Sanderson—The R.O.C.: Taiwan’s Evil Twin $10
• H.M. Elise Auvil—Autism: A Key to Understanding

Criticism

• First: Kali Rosenberger—Transatlantic Naturalism: An Analysis of Oceanic $50
  References in The Awakening and Insolacion
• Second: Jessica Sabol—Interwoven Complications in Hanif Kureishi’s $25
  My Beautiful Laundrette
• Third: Elise Auvil—Psychological Noir: Dix in In a Lonely Place $10
• H.M. Joy Shanholtz—A Child in Disguise

Creative Non-Fiction

• First: Elizabeth Blumer—Obituary $50
• Second: D. Corey Sanderson—Riding Shotgun $25
• Third: Kali Rosenberger—Looking at the Sky in El Camal $10

Rosaly Roffman Innovation

• First: Dara Fennel—Othello: A Multi-Dimensional Experience $50
• Second: D. Corey Sanderson—Deconstructing Accentuation $25

Linda Halderman Short Fiction

• Melissa Lutz—Flights of Reality $50

Richard Hazley Poetry

• First: MaryAnn Sleasman—If Jesus Was a Woman in 1960 $50
• Second: Kali Rosenberger—Sun Lust Legacy $25
• Third: Jessica Sabol—April $10
• H.M. Fatoumata Doumbia—Writing and Me

2009 Outstanding Student Awards

Claudette Dolan Service Award

• Emily McCombie

Promising First-Year Students

• David Donovan
• Christian Minich
• Madison Moore
• Rachel Smigielski
• Robbin Zirkle

Outstanding Second-Year Students

• Emily Mross
• Joy Shanholtz

Outstanding Third-Year Students

• Bachelor of Arts
  • James Halloran
• English Education
  • Corrina Mazzetti
• Fullbright
  • Tahirou Samaila

Outstanding Fourth-Year Students

• Bachelor of Arts
  • Elise Auvil
  • Melissa Rogers
  • Harley Shultz
• English Education
  • Elizabeth Blumer
  • Kali Rosenberger

2007 EAPSU Outstanding English Major

• Melissa Rogers

Valedictorians

English Education Kali Rosenberger
Bachelor of Arts Elise Auvil

Promising Young Alumni Scholar

• Heather Duda

2009 Outstanding Faculty Awards

• English Education Advisor: Nan Sitler
• Bachelor of Art Advisor: Wendy Carse
• Professors:
  • Chauna Craig
  • Tony Farrington
  • Lea Masiello
  • Linda Norris
  • Christopher Orchard
  • Mike Sell

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