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Alpha Rho Eta Chapter (American University of Kuwait) members with William C. Johnson, Executive Director of Sigma Tau Delta
Each year Sigma Tau Delta recognizes excellence in convention presentations by awarding over $10,000 in prize money.
Isabel Sparks President’s Awards
Given for the best presentations by active student and alumni members at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention, these awards were established in 1991 by Isabel Sparks, the fifth President of Sigma Tau Delta.
Categories
Original Fiction
- First Place ($600)
Lindsay Brents
Randolph College (VA)
“Two Meditations on Motherhood”
- Second Place ($300)
Natalie Grazian
Santa Clara University (CA)
“Venus Reborn”
- Second Place ($300)
Mary Frankovich
Walsh University (OH)
“In Memoriam”
- Third Place ($150)
Olivia Winters
Union University (TN)
“Moonflowers”
Original Drama
- First Place ($300)
Roberto Martinez
Alumni Epsilon
“A Quarter Life Crisis Inspired by Connery and Lennon”
Creative Non-Fiction
- First Place ($600)
Kerstin Tuttle
University of South Dakota (SD)
“Nineteen Segments of a Life Partially Digested”
- Second Place ($300)
Hannah Trout
Southern Arkansas University (AR)
“Until He Vanishes”
- Third Place ($150)
Rachel Cooper
Stephens College (MO)
“Sweet and Sour”
- Honorable Mention ($100)
Erin Mellor
Furman University (SC)
“Why We Must Qualify Travel”
Original Poetry
- First Place ($600)
Minadora Macherat
Kansas State University (KS)
“This Home: The Body My Mother Left Me”
- Second Place ($300)
Stephen Turner
Arkansas State University (AR)
“Selected Poems”
- Third Place ($150)
Joseph Nieves
Westminster College (MO)
“Desert(ed) Places”
- Third Place ($150)
Robert Schumaker
Chapman University (CA)
“Visions of Her”
Critical Essays: British Literature and World Literature
- First Place ($600)
Julia Woolever
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
“Influence and Identity: Black British Bildungsromane”
- Second Place ($300)
Adam Syversten
DePaul University (IL)
“Hall and Un-Hall: Monsters and Setting in Beowulf“
- Third Place ($150)
Elizabeth Polishan
University of Scranton (PA)
“Mythology and Maritime Archaeology: Molly as Calypso”
- Third Place ($150)
Sara Lovotti
Westfield State University (MA)
“Refusing to Apologize”
Critical Essays: American Literature
- First Place ($600)
Karen Chambless
Lee University (TN)
“The Devil in You’: Stanley Kowalski’s Dark Triad”
- Second Place ($300)
Emily Smith
McNeese State University (LA)
“The Feminine Frontier”
- Third Place ($150)
Emily Minor
Azusa Pacific University (CA)
“The Id, the Edna, and the Super Edna”
- Honorable Mention ($100)
Emmy Dixon
University of North Georgia Gainesville Campus
“Frederick Douglass ‘Transcending’ Slavery”
Critical Essays: Education, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Young Adult Literature, Popular Culture, and Film Studies
- First Place ($600)
Kelsey Jetter
Dixie State University (UT)
“Liminal Gutter: Reader Identification and Persepolis“
- First Place ($600)
Shannon Young
Furman University (SC)
“Postmemory in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home“
- Third Place ($150)
Genesis Calderon
St. Mary’s University, San Antonio (TX)
“Double Consciousness in ‘The Blacker the Berry'”
- First Place ($300)
Ryan Lackey
George Fox University (OR)
“Narrative, Sexuality and Identity in The Soul Thief“
- Second Place ($150)
Noah Chauvin
SUNY College of Geneseo (NY)
“For Want of Syncope”
Justin Q. Owen Convention Awards
Convention Theme
Critical Essays
- First Place ($300)
Emily Dikken
University of Northwestern-St. Paul (MN)
“Creating Home in Bleak House“
- Second Place ($150)
Jaclyn Swiderski
SUNY New Paltz (NY)
“Hope for Home Rule: Loss of Home in Ulysses“
Creative
- First Place ($300)
Sarah Rickertsen
Luther College (IA)
“Painting Milk”
- Second Place ($150)
Kate O’Donoghue
Muhlenberg College (PA)
“While I, girl prime”
English Education and Pedagogy Papers
- First Place ($600)
Southeastern Louisiana University (LA)
“#WeNeedDiverseBooks Everywhere” by Taylor Oakley
- Second Place ($300)
Samantha Miller
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
“The Bully Bridge of Young Adult Literature”
- Third Place ($150)
Caitlin Mannion
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
“English Teachers: The New and Necessary Cyborgs”
Diversity Papers
Critical
- First Place ($600)
Victoria Tankersley
University of St. Thomas (MN)
“US Prison Literature as Transnational Literature”
- Second Place ($300)
Austin Cordle
Cedarville University (OH)
“Your Land, My Life: Chicana Anti-Patriotism”
- Third Place ($150)
Andrew Ryan
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
“Selfhood as Suspect in Poetry of Black Identity”
Creative
- First Place ($600)
Original Fiction
Mercedes James
Azusa Pacific University (CA)
“Skin”
- Second Place ($300)
Creative Non-Fiction
Jared Worley
Western Illinois University (IL)
“Fortunate Son”
- Third Place ($150)
Original Poetry
Natasha Morgan
Western Illinois University (IL)
“Metamorphosis of a Black and White Butterfly”
Alumni Epsilon Papers
- Critical Paper ($375)
Hannah Korell
“In This Belief I Die”: Patriarchy & Changeling”
- Critical Paper ($375)
Kathleen Hurlock
“Quiet Revolt: Lady Susan’s Reformist Discourse”
- Creative Paper ($375)
Kara Knickerbocker
“This Side of the Sun”
Sigma Kappa Delta Paper
- Original Fiction ($300)
Wilfred Crespo
Broward College (FL)
“Shadows of Regret”
Quadricentennial Award in Honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death
- First Place ($300)
Cailin Potami
University of Scranton (PA)
“‘My Dear Mother’: Female Bonding in All’s Well“
- Second Place ($150)
Taylor Parker
Louisiana Tech University (LA)
“Do as Men Do: Women at ‘Home’ in Shakespeare”
Outstanding Chapter Displays
- First Place ($100)
Alpha Pi Epsilon Chapter
Dixie State University (UT)
- Second Place ($75)
Alpha Epsilon Alpha Chapter
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
- Third Place ($50)
Alpha Omicron Epsilon Chapter
Indiana University East (IN)
Other Convention Awards
Convention Theme 400-Word Scholarship Essay ($50)
- Rachel Burns
Iota Mu Chapter
Winthrop University (SC)
- Amanda Chiu
Psi Nu Chapter
Belmont University (TN)
- Addie Crawford
Iota Mu Chapter
Winthrop University (SC)
- Teal St. Nicklaus
Tau Upsilon Chapter
Mercer University (GA)
