Each year, the Undergraduate Chair, in coordination with the Honors Director and the Undergraduate Executive Committee, selects one honors student to receive this award. See also the Rittenberg Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in English.

2006 Winner: Kathryn Fleishman, "Tee-hee! Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale." Honorable Mention: Ruth McAdams.

2005 Winners: Willa Rohrer, "'Stinging Red, Smarting Pink': The Ethics of Representation in Nabokov's Lolita"; Amir Shachmurove, "The Great Truth of Old Ideas: The English Past in Pride and Prejudice, Sybil, and Daniel Deronda"

2004 Winner: Lynn Huang, "Between Manuscript and Print: George Gascoigne as the Professional Poet." Honorable Mentions: Robert Tawse and Katherine Fox.

2003 Winner: Sharon Fulton, "Compilation as Containment."

2002 Winners: Sara Murphy, "A Poet's Progress: Bunyanesque Walking in Blake's Milton; and Brenner Thomas, "Arts and Letters: Epistolarity in Pamela."

2001 Winner: Gregory Steirer, "Cooper's __________: Narrating Absence in Safe." Honorable Mention: Jack Guinn.

For a list of Honors Awardees and their theses year-by-year, click here.