The annual Peter Burton Hanson Writing Awards are named in the honor and the memory of English alumnus Peter Burton Hanson (SSH ’91), who perished along with his wife, Sue Kim, and young daughter, Christine Lee, aboard United Airlines 175, on September 11, 2001. Peter’s life and values are remembered through these events and awards. The Department of English is deeply grateful to Peter’s parents, Lee and Eunice Hanson, for their generosity in endowing the Peter Burton Hanson Lecture and Writing Awards.
Awards for Scholarly, Creative, and Other Works in 2019
In the Category of Creative Writing
Winner: Helen Wang, “Darwin’s Bulldog Bites Back”
Under the instruction of Professor Ellen Noonan
Honorable mention: Farah Alfahad, “X’s Found Folio”
Under the instruction of Professor Ellen Noonan
In the Category of Scholarly Writing
Winner: Sarah Lamodi, “Claudia Rankine and the Concepts of Lyrical Writing”
Under the instruction of Professor Patrick Mullen
Honorable mention: Sarah Gordon, “Female Experience, Female Victims, and Female Gothic in Frankenstein”
Under the instruction of Professor Lori Lefkovitz
In the Category of “Other” work
Winner: Hana Shapiro, “帰る 行く (To Return, To Go)”
Under the instruction of Professor Eunsong Kim
Winner: Anna Smith, “The Other Side of Wonderland”
Under the instruction of Professor Erika Boeckeler