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The Tom Bonner Essay Award

The Tom Bonner Essay Award was established to promote academic writing of the highest caliber. It is a cash prize awarded each year for a research paper written in a 200-level literature course. Papers are nominated by faculty.

	Essayist	Title
	Caroline Anderson 2015	New Subjects of Admiration: Romanticism in 19th Century Literature
	Co-Recpient Hallie Van Camp 2014	Tenets of Romanticism in 19th Century Literature: An Analysis
	Co-Recipient Richard Hahn 2014	Speaking in Tongues: Stop Making Sense as a Postmodern Artifact
	Ali Robertson 2013	"The True Genius of Women: Use of Genre to Embellish Meaning in 19th Century Works
	Rachel Hubata-Ashton 2012	Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits: Examining Magical Realism as It Bears Witness to Life
	Phyleicia Dais 2011	The Incorporation of Identity, Performance, and Disguise in Sixteenth-Century English Literature
	Mikaela Campbell 2010	"Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey as an Allegory for Buddhism"
	Ansley Gasque-Carter 2009	"Character Development and Subjectivity in The Color Purple
	Eric Bell 2008	"Ancient Inequality and the Development of Our Sexual Caste System"
	John Leninger 2007	"Unfair Accusations of Racism Regarding Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
	Abe Layman 2006	"An Analysis of Selected Dream Sequences in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment"