Griffiths Leadership Society Scholarship

• Emily C. Friedman 

AFS Student Travel Stipend

• Claire Schmidt $300 travel stipend awarded on the basis of quality of submitted paper abstract and geographical location.

Fathman Award

• Chad Parmenter The T.S. Eliot Society presented this for the paper, "Rereading the Yeatsian in Four Quartets," presented at the annual society meeting.

Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers

• Emily Rosko 

Graduate Student Research Award

• Crystal Lake American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)

Hayden English Fellowship

• Jonas Cope 

Iowa Poetry Prize

• Emily Rosko 

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

• Emily Rosko 

James Hearst Prize Finalist

• Jessica Garratt Contest put on by the North American Review

Maureen Egen Writers Exchange finalist

• Lania Knight My fiction was selected among the top nine of 118 entries.

Poetry Prize Winner, Hotel Amerika

• Chad Parmenter "Batman In Honey" was selected as the winner of the 2005 poetry contest.

Poetry Prize Winner, The Black Warrior Review

• Chad Parmenter Judge Dean Young selected the poem "Batellite, Batellite of Love" as winner of the Black Warrior Review's Third Ever Poetry Contest.

Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

• Lily Mabura The Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

QueerLit2 semi-finalist

• Lania Knight My novel was in the top twenty-five.

Ronald E. McNair Scholar 2006 McNair Scholar of the Year Award

• Ericka P. Evans Award for most conscientious and dedicated McNair Scholar, 2005/06 Saint Louis University Ronald E. McNair Scholar Program

Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship

• Emily Rosko 

Schroeder Scholarship

• Peter Ramey Awarded by the Missouri Folklore Society for the essay "The Street Laureates of Jefferson and Highview: Hip Hop in Middle-America."

The Midwest Association of Graduate Schools ParamGun Sood Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

• Karen Laird 

Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship

• Emily Rosko (Stanford University)

English Departmental Fellowship

• Jonas Cope 

First Prize, 2008 Research and Creative Activities Forum

• Emily C. Friedman for “Identification Reconsidered: Beyond Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Novels”

Honorable Mention, Mahan Writing Award in Fiction

• Brian Van Reet "Blood Groove"

Superior Graduate Student Award

• Joe Green 

University of Missouri Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

• Karen Laird 

2008 Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Student Fellowship

• Wm. Anthony Connolly Awarded to graduate student for a presentation given or essay publication in the preceding year. Award for essay "Confession: Lacunae" Co-winner with Crystal Lake (ABD).

Creative Writing Fellowship

• Chad Parmenter 

Departmental Fellowship

• Joe Green 

Dissertation Fellowship

• Joe Green 

Harry J. and Richard A. Hocks Dissertation Fellowship

• Emily C. Friedman 

Mary Lago Teaching Award

• Ramsay Wise This award honors superior teaching in the English Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is designated for graduate students in odd-numbered years and non-regular faculty in even-numbered years. The selection committee consists of the Director of Undergraduate Studies, the Director of Composition, the Director for the Program in Creative Writing, and the department’s Undergraduate Advisor.