NEW YORK ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT
WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017
3:15 - 5:00 PM
Aniello Bianco Room (Level B), 1 Pace Plaza, NYC
Conducted by Writing Awards Director Brice Particelli
Welcome
Dr. Eugene
Richie, English Department Chair
Willis, Owens,
Gill, Cannon, and Rose Writing Awards,
and the Academy of
American Poets Prize
The Sarah Willis,
Billie and Curtis Owens, Richard Gill, Gerard Cannon, and James Rose memorial
funds, named in honor of distinguished English Department faculty, and the
David A. Bickimer-Promise of Learnings / Academy of American Poets Prize
(founded by John Ashbery and David Kermani)
FICTION
Nessie
Nankivell, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “The Seeds That Drowned”
Cristina
E. Vidal, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Mamoncillos”
Morgan
Hamilton, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “A Century of Roslyn Hale”
Kayla
Hyland, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “Three”
Haley
Boden, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Curses”
Harold
Hodge, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “An Excerpt from ‘Po’ Folks Dinner’”
Nicholas
A. Krauss, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “Road Block”
Ida
Seshie, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “Raw”
NONFICTION
Madisyn Ritland, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Heavy Sway”
Juliet Mueller, James Rose Award, 2nd Place: “Honey Bees Die After They
Sting”
Ayla McCarthy Combes, Billie and Curtis
Owens Award, 3rd Place:
“Losing Los Sures: Transformation of Space and the Persistence of Cultural
Memory in South Williamsburg”
Nicholas A. Krauss, Billie and Curtis
Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Burning
Point”
Nicki Kern, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “The
B-Word”
Thomas Milligan, Richard Gill
Award, Honorable
Mention: “She + Him”
Megan Millisky, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “Bastard
Cat”
Vincent Maximilliano Onofre, Richard Gill
Award, Honorable
Mention: “A Little More”
LINGUISTIC
AND RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Asia Letlow
and Sarah Hillyer, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Student
Perceptions and Attitudes on Citations”
Meagan
McLaughlin, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “The Missing Set,” “The Art of
Seduction," and “How Many X’s…? How Many Y’s…?”
Nessie
Nankivell, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “Our
Teacher’s Copy: Literacy Sponsorship in High School Education”
Cole
Bedford, James Rose Award, 3rd Place: “Prostitution
Helped Make Me Literate (Kind of)”
LITERARY
CRITICISM
Madisyn Ritland, James Rose Award, 1st Place: “Self-Inflicted Abuse in Wuthering
Heights”
Ayla McCarthy Combes, Sarah Willis
Award, 2nd Place: “‘There Are Many Odd
Things to Put Down’: An Analysis of the Use of Structure in Dracula”
Tasha Gagnon, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “‘I Was the More
Deceived’: Gaslighting in The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet”
Luke Widlund, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Bondage Kicks and Other
Flesh”
Sabrina Boyle, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “The
Buttons Are the Window to the Soul: The Uncanny in Coraline”
Nicholas A. Krauss, Richard Gill
Award, Honorable
Mention: “‘Abased Love’ A Comparison of the Romances of Cligès
and Tristan and Iseult”
Katana Collado, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “Fitzgerald
as Corset”
Zane Davis A. Zamora, Richard Gill
Award, Honorable
Mention: “Educated Ignorance: The Victor Frankenstein
Story”
SCREENWRITING
Marcos Hinojosa, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Rose, Bud, Thorn”
Conor Baker, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “Gift of the Mortician”
Noura Boustany Jost, Billie and Curtis
Owens Award, 3rd Place:
“Trapped”
WRITING ON FILM
Tyler Crosby, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Timecode and
Surveillance: A New Rhetoric in the Dawning Age of Digital Cinema”
Madisyn Ritland, Sarah Willis
Award, 2nd Place: “Turbulent Heart of
Darkness and Incandescent Glory of the Myriad Mind of Man”
Colleen Haggerty, Billie and Curtis
Owens Award, 3rd Place:
“‘Ex Machina’: Special Effects as a Vessel to Display Societal Limitations and
Power”
Katherine Orgen, Billie and Curtis
Owens Award, 3rd Place:
“Landscape and Photography in Blow-Up”
JOURNALISM
Sarah Hartzell, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “One Person, One Vote: The
Evolution of the Electoral College”
Katrina Alonso, James Rose Award, 2nd Place: “University Tries to ‘Make It Happen’”
Felice Joanna (Anna) Yesilevskiy, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: “Shia LaBoeuf's Newest Project
Delivers Controversy”
Anna
Maria Sejuelas, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place:
“Ariana Grande: Inspiring the ‘Dangerous Woman’ in All of Us”
POETRY
Chang (Harrison) Yang, David A. Bickimer-Promise of Learnings /Academy
of American Poets Prize:
“Grandpa Visits Me During
the Summer,” “My Gay Friends Adopt a Daughter,” “Repairs in a Fishing Village
West of Hong Kong,” “My Girl,” and “Where are we going”
Mollie Murtagh, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “To Hoboken,” “Funny,”
“In Queens,” “Drug Store Mantra,” and “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning”
Kelsey O'Brien-Enders, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Opening Night,” “An
Encounter with You in Three Parts,” “Union Square,” “Slam,” and “The Face of an
Actor”
Katie Curley, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “Greenwich
Village,” “Election Day,” “Pencil Pushers,” “Muumuu,” and “The Ghost of Lord
Baltimore”
Alexa Mauzy, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “Elegy: Missed
Connections,” “having a Xanax w/ u,” “Parking Lot,” “srry :/” and “New York
Real Estate”
Jacob Holzman, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: “Ways I Could
Begin to Talk to You,” “In an Attempt to Explain Myself,” “Bagel Shop Window,”
“I am so Conflicted about Gertrude Stein!” and “Rain Poem”
Jordan Rose Little, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: “The Statue of
the Fat Woman in Downtown San Jose,” “Moon Visit,” Spring Time,” “Theory of
Heartbreak,” and “Turialba”
Sabrina
Boyle, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “Sonnet,” “Dust
Bunny,” “Ugly Little Big Girl,” “Things to Do on the Jersey Shore,” and “For
Our Date”
Leopoldo
A. Orozco Correa, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “Once, Maria,” “The
Story of My Legs,” “Sheer,” “Theta,” and “Poemario”
PLAYWRITING
Juliet Mueller, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Literary Studies”
Nanichi Aguado, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “The Cuban Sandwich”
Joshua Call, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place:
“Cassandra”
Nessie Nankivell, James Rose Award, Honorable Mention:
“Otherbody: A Brief Musical Allegory”
Harold Hodge, James Rose Award, Honorable Mention:
"The Boy in the Church"
Kelly Herbert Writing
Award
Endowed by Ms.
Julie Hanus and administered by the Pace Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Queer, Questioning, Asexual and Ally (LGBTQA) & Social Justice Center
Presented by Kelly
Herbert
Nelli Agbulos, “An
Open Letter on Allyship”
Congratulations to
Film and Screen Studies and English Major Graduates
Celebration and
Readings of Aphros 57 (2017)
New Aphros Issue and Readers
Introduced
by Editors Tasha Gagnon and Harrison
Yang
Caroline Snape, “Through the
Kitchen Window (or: A Greek Tragedy in the Theatre Lobby)”
Jordan Rose Little, “The Compost
Bin”
EDITORS
Tasha Gagnon
Harrison Yang
EDITORIAL STAFF
Kristen
Bianco
Tara
Chariton
Denise
Cordero
Tiffany
Edson
Jessica
Jimenez
Jordan
Little
Kelsey
O’Brien-Enders
Caroline
Snape
ADVISOR
Charles North
APHROS 57 Readers’ Bios
Caroline Snape from Blackburn, United Kingdom,
is in her senior year as an English Language and Literature major. After
graduation, she is planning to work in dramaturgy. She is excited for her
poetry to be published in Aphros this
year!
Jordan
Rose Little is a Gender Studies and English and Culture double
major at Pace University. She is a senior, graduating in the fall of 2017, and
a staff member of Aphros. She's very excited and grateful for the
opportunity to see her work published!
English Department
Eugene Richie, Chair
Sid Ray, Associate Chair
Brice Particelli, Assistant Chair
Film and Screen Studies Department
Catherine Zimmer, Chair
Writing Awards Director
Brice Particelli
Willis, Owens, Gill, Cannon, and Rose Writing Awards,
and the Academy of American Poets Prize Award Committees
POETRY
Charles North, Chair
Tom Breidenbach
Eugene Richie
Ana Velasco
FICTION
Helane Levine-Keating, Chair
Ebele Oseye
Randolyn Zinn
NONFICTION
Bureen Ruffin, Chair
Mara Grayson
SCREENWRITING
Jon Danziger, Chair
Frank Martinelli
Joshua Kennedy
PLAYWRITING
Judd Silverman, Chair
Bureen Ruffin
LITERARY
CRITICISM
Stephanie Hsu, Chair
Erica Johnson
Beth Roberts
LINGUISTIC AND
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Kristen di Gennaro, Chair
Meaghan Brewer
Phil Choong
WRITING ON
FILM
Colin Williamson, Chair
Lauren Cramer
JOURNALISM
Kelley Kreitz, Chair
Melissa Persaud
Special thanks
to our Department Administrative Staff Associate, Carol Dollison, and our
outstanding student assistants—Sambridhi Ghimire and Elijah Jones—for help with
publicity, award committee work, and the awards ceremony; to Maximilliano
Onofre, Executive Editor of The Pace Press, for publicizing the awards competition and
ceremony; to the Dyson College Communications Office (Angela Nally, Diane Wai, Chris Snow, Ryan
Milan, Stephanie Spallone) for posters, flyers, photography, and event
publicity in Pace publications and on Dyson Websites and social media; and to
Winston Vera, Derrick Jones, Diane Lewis, and Jonathan Forte for their
dedicated efforts in making awards certificates, publicity materials,
manuscript copies, and the ceremony program.
