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<\/h4>\nLotte Larsen & Richard Meyer with student award recipients<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\nXXX<\/span><\/td>\n \nEndowed by retired WOU faculty Richard Meyer and Lotte Larsen, The Meyer Prize for Excellence in Literature is awarded annually for an outstanding essay written in an upper-division course at WOU.\u00a0 The primary focus must be “critical literary analysis.”<\/h4>\nStudents need not be English majors. Per the endowment’s charter, the papers are evaluated by a blind-review process by tenure-track members of the literature faculty.<\/h4>\nThe award for the Meyer Prize is $500. The winning student and their professor are also invited to a celebration dinner with Richard Meyer.<\/h4>\nEligibility criteria are described below. \u00a0Contact the competition coordinator (Gavin Keulks, keulksg@wou.edu<\/a>) if you have questions.<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Annual Recipients & Runners-up<\/h1>\n
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2025<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Nicole McKinney, “The Playful Wit of Marvell\u2019s ‘To His Coy Mistress’: A Comedic Exploration of Love and Time“<\/span> click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Catrina Kelly, “T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cLove Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d \u2014 On the Artistry of Sonnets” click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Trinity Herr, ” Hysteria as Bildungsroman in Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>\u00a0and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s\u00a0Nervous Conditions<\/i>”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Josiah Liljequist, “Subverting Pop Culture and Setting Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em> with Jordan Peele\u2019s Us<\/em> for their Deconstruction of American Colonialism”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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Endowed by retired WOU faculty Richard Meyer and Lotte Larsen, The Meyer Prize for Excellence in Literature is awarded annually for an outstanding essay written in an upper-division course at WOU.\u00a0 The primary focus must be “critical literary analysis.”<\/h4>\nStudents need not be English majors. Per the endowment’s charter, the papers are evaluated by a blind-review process by tenure-track members of the literature faculty.<\/h4>\nThe award for the Meyer Prize is $500. The winning student and their professor are also invited to a celebration dinner with Richard Meyer.<\/h4>\nEligibility criteria are described below. \u00a0Contact the competition coordinator (Gavin Keulks, keulksg@wou.edu<\/a>) if you have questions.<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Annual Recipients & Runners-up<\/h1>\n
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2025<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Nicole McKinney, “The Playful Wit of Marvell\u2019s ‘To His Coy Mistress’: A Comedic Exploration of Love and Time“<\/span> click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Catrina Kelly, “T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cLove Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d \u2014 On the Artistry of Sonnets” click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Trinity Herr, ” Hysteria as Bildungsroman in Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>\u00a0and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s\u00a0Nervous Conditions<\/i>”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Josiah Liljequist, “Subverting Pop Culture and Setting Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em> with Jordan Peele\u2019s Us<\/em> for their Deconstruction of American Colonialism”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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The award for the Meyer Prize is $500. The winning student and their professor are also invited to a celebration dinner with Richard Meyer.<\/h4>\nEligibility criteria are described below. \u00a0Contact the competition coordinator (Gavin Keulks, keulksg@wou.edu<\/a>) if you have questions.<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Annual Recipients & Runners-up<\/h1>\n
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2025<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Nicole McKinney, “The Playful Wit of Marvell\u2019s ‘To His Coy Mistress’: A Comedic Exploration of Love and Time“<\/span> click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Catrina Kelly, “T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cLove Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d \u2014 On the Artistry of Sonnets” click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Trinity Herr, ” Hysteria as Bildungsroman in Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>\u00a0and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s\u00a0Nervous Conditions<\/i>”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Josiah Liljequist, “Subverting Pop Culture and Setting Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em> with Jordan Peele\u2019s Us<\/em> for their Deconstruction of American Colonialism”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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Annual Recipients & Runners-up<\/h1>\n
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2025<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Nicole McKinney, “The Playful Wit of Marvell\u2019s ‘To His Coy Mistress’: A Comedic Exploration of Love and Time“<\/span> click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Catrina Kelly, “T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cLove Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d \u2014 On the Artistry of Sonnets” click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Trinity Herr, ” Hysteria as Bildungsroman in Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>\u00a0and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s\u00a0Nervous Conditions<\/i>”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Josiah Liljequist, “Subverting Pop Culture and Setting Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em> with Jordan Peele\u2019s Us<\/em> for their Deconstruction of American Colonialism”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2024<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Catrina Kelly, “T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cLove Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d \u2014 On the Artistry of Sonnets” click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Trinity Herr, ” Hysteria as Bildungsroman in Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>\u00a0and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s\u00a0Nervous Conditions<\/i>”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Josiah Liljequist, “Subverting Pop Culture and Setting Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em> with Jordan Peele\u2019s Us<\/em> for their Deconstruction of American Colonialism”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2023<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Trinity Herr, ” Hysteria as Bildungsroman in Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>\u00a0and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s\u00a0Nervous Conditions<\/i>”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Josiah Liljequist, “Subverting Pop Culture and Setting Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em> with Jordan Peele\u2019s Us<\/em> for their Deconstruction of American Colonialism”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2022<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: April Massoni, “Prufrock\u2019s Notes from Purgatory: Modernist and Religious Themes in T.S Eliot\u2019s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Notes from Underground<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Jasper Beck, “Joking with a Heavy Heart: Bo Burnham as the Modern Underground Man”\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2021<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katy Tripp, \u201cHeart of Darkness and the Failure of Identity\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sam Marshall, \u201c\u2019Break out the Boat, It’s a Morality Trip Downriver\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2020<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Camden Jones, \u201cA Titanic Resolution of Will: Cosmology and Duality in Soyinka\u2019s\u00a0Death and the King\u2019s Horsemen<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Sean Tellvik, \u201c\u2019Cold, Impotent Ash\u2019: The Self-Destructive Fire of Masculinity in Achebe\u2019s\u00a0Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0and Coetzee\u2019s\u00a0Disgrace<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2018-2019<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Elizabeth Obendorf, \u201cMaterialist and Consumerist Anxieties in Washington Irving\u2019s \u2018The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Camden Jones, \u201cMadame Bovary\u2019s Art Show: Flaubert and the Exposition Universelle\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Kaela Wehrman, The Burden of Fantasies and the Harshness of Reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paul Baxter, \u201cFractured Identity and Destructive Self-Interest\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Wilkes, \u201cThe Disintegration of Catherine Earnshaw\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: James Doyle, \u201cThe Tragic Adventure: Arthur Miller\u2019s Portrayal of Survivors Guilt in\u00a0All My Sons<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Sadie Moses, \u201cStarvation in Culture: Food and Social Criticism.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Runner-up: Zoe Strickland, \u201cIgnorance and Beauty in\u00a0Gigi<\/em>,\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/em>, and\u00a0Emma<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2015-2016<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Courtney Royer, \u201cThe Pillowman<\/em>: Setting the Stage.\u201d\u00a0read text<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0view images<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Joleen Braasch, \u201cWild Androgyny and Cultured Patriarchy: The Dogs of\u00a0Wuthering Heights.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cNaming, Identity, and the Feminine in\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Brandy Balas, \u201cAmerican Dreams and Self-Reflection: The Shared Flaws of Willy Loman in\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>\u00a0and Sal Paradise in\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Nicolas Evans, \u201cDiscovering the Truth of Passion\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Megan Clark, \u201cThe Eternal One: Transcendental Philosophy in\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Benito Cereno<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2013-2014<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katurah Hein, \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Fundamental Morality in\u00a0As I Lay Dying<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Sound and the Fury.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Kimberlee Bartle, \u201cA Modernist Distrust of Words: The Exploitation of a World Obsessed with the Arbitrary Confines of Language.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Peter Carrillo, \u201cThe Pharmacist and the Holy Man.\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2012-2013<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winner: Vanessa Cutz, \u201cLiving Story from the Inside: Characters\u2019 Narratives about Self in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Co-Winner: Connor Shields, \u201cPoint of View in the Modern Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Michael Mehringer, \u201cThe Meaning Dissolves: Symbolism in the American Short Story\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2011-2012<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cA Beautiful Disaster: The Paradoxes of Self-Deception and Freedom within\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Venessa Cutz, \u201cThe Wolf in America\u2014Bringing Back A Little Fear\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cA Curvature of Time: Identity in the Bildungsroman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2010-2011<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Paige O\u2019Rourke, \u201cDisorderly Conduct: The Trickster Spirit and the Maturation of the Human Psyche\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Ben Hynes-Stone, \u201cEncapsulated Everlasting Radiance: Winter Interiors\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Justin Rush, \u201c\u2018Everything Changes\u2019: Broken Homes and the Sacrifice of Individuality\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2009-2010<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Caitlin Manion, \u201cTwins: A Compelling Narrative Device in Two Igbo Novels\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cA Theoretical Comparison of Thoreau\u2019s Walden and Krakauer\u2019s Into the Wild\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: M. Catherine Bauman, \u201cChanging Portrayals and Uses of Women Characters in African Literature\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2008-2009<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Evan Christopher, \u201cAs Hard as the Middle of Thunder: Age and Love, Linguistics and Poetics, and Stanley Kunitz\u2019s \u2018Touch Me’\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Caitlin Manion, \u201cWordsworthian Imagery and Childhood in The Mill on the Floss\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Taisa Efseaff, \u201cThe Mythic Figure of God as Presented in The Bible\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Students are strongly encouraged to read winning\u00a0essays from previous years to deduce the quality of work that typically receives awards.<\/p>\n
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2007-2008<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Katie Tvrdy, \u201cArticulation in\u00a0Austerlitz<\/em>: The Reevaluation of the Holocaust Discourse\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Daniel Bruner, \u201c\u2018Where all the Ladders Start\u2019: The Conduits of Art in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Allison Houck, \u201cDaisy Buchanan: Victim or Victimizer?\u201d\u00a0click here to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Award Criteria<\/h2>\n\n- The paper must have\u00a0literature<\/strong>\u00a0as its central focus. Creative-writing projects are ineligible.\u00a0 However, non-traditional essays or projects \u2014 including creative non-fiction \u2014 are eligible, provided the \u201ccore concept\u201d is one of \u201ccritical literary analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The Meyer Prize competition is open to quality work, broadly defined, provided that key criterion is met. \u00a0See Courtney Royer (2015-16) for an example of a non-traditional scholarly project.<\/li>\n
- Any paper written in (or translated into) English and that was originally submitted for an\u00a0upper-division<\/strong>\u00a0(300 & 400 level) class at WOU is eligible.<\/li>\n
- Students or professors may submit nominations.\u00a0 Self-nominations are allowed.\u00a0 No student can have more than 2 essays entered in the competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the competition (Gavin Keulks<\/a>), who will strip them of all identification, comments, and grades to ensure a \u201cblind\u201d competition.<\/li>\n
- Papers need to have been written during the preceding\u00a0spring, summer, fall, and winter terms<\/strong>. For example: for the 2021-2022 competition, papers should have been written during spring 2021, summer 2021, fall 2021, and winter 2022.<\/li>\n
- Papers can be submitted at any time. The deadline for submission is\u00a0April 25<\/strong>, with winners announced in mid-May. The winning student (and possibly runners-up) may be asked to summarize their essay at our annual Academic Excellence Showcase in late-May.<\/li>\n
- In the unlikely event of a questionable submission (ie. a revised essay or an essay whose primary focus is not literature but, say, the literary industry), the steering committee (Gavin Keulks and Henry Hughes) will make the final decision regarding eligibility.<\/li>\n
- If more than 15 essays are received, the steering committee will winnow the initial submissions down to 8.<\/li>\n
- A student can win only one award in any year\u2019s competition. A student may enter the competition in multiple years, regardless of prior results.<\/li>\n
- In the event of a tie for first place, the co-winning essays will receive $300 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Profile of Previous Winning Essays<\/h2>\n
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This profile of past winning essays is intended to help\u00a0you consider whether to submit an essay \u2014 or decide which of your papers to submit:<\/p>\n
\n- winning essays have always been\u00a0longer than 7 pages<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have\u00a0always\u00a0incorporated external sources<\/strong><\/li>\n
- winning essays have always received an\u00a0original\u00a0grade of \u201cA\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2006-2007<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jon Bernard, \u201cVariations on a Theme: Faith, Doubt, and Reason as Explored by Hopkins and Tennyson\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cStorytelling in\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>: Self-Construction through Remembering and the Vulnerability of Forgetting\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Bryan Beck, \u201cAbsurd Realism: The Inaccurate Criticism of Gao Zingjian\u2019s \u2018The Bus Stop’\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2005-2006<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Jennifer Carmichael, \u201cFrom Brigand to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes Interiority\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Shauna Anderson, \u201cCenter of Instability as the Abyss of Paranoia\u201d and Amanda Miles, \u201cJoyce\u2019s\u00a0A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>: From Freud to Erikson\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2004-2005<\/h2>\n\n- Co-Winners:\u00a0 Shobana Breeden, \u201cThe Conflict Between Patriarchy and Unwedded Pregnancy\u201d and Amanda Hughes, \u201cEnabling or Discouraging Change: God\u2019s Bits of Wood versus Nervous Conditions\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2003-2004<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Shelley Stonebrook, \u201cSeeking Progress and Truth in a Cyclical, Magical Past: Representations of History in the Post-Colonial Novel.\u201d<\/li>\n
- First Runner-up: Stephanie W. Hampton, \u201cMarriage in Toni Morrison\u2019s Work: The Legacy of Slavery in Family Relations Through Generations.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Second Runner-up: Janelle Davis, \u201cHeroic Effort Required\u201d and Lucas Howard, \u201cLanguage and the Fallibility of History.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2002-2003<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Susanne Dora, \u201cAll that We Can\u2019t Leave Behind: The Inescapable Influence of History on Perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Runners-up (tie): Bethany Lamb \u201cTime for The Body Artist\u201d and Kyle Baker, \u201cTides of Thought in Moby Dick:\u00a0 Deconstructing the Doubloon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Second Runner-up: Brooke Snelling, \u201cNigeria: A Tragic Hero\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2001-2002<\/h2>\n\n- Winner: Celeste Barker, On Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0and James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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