Current Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2 (2019)

Congratulations to the Spring 2019 issue winners

• Barbara Farrelly Award for Best Writing of the Issue ($200 award): Reconstruction's First Election: Various Interpretations of the Lasting Significance of a Grant Victory by Shannon M. Stanforth
• English 198 Excellence in Writing Award ($100 award): Coaching Styles for Boys’ and Girls’ Sports Teams by Jack Murphy
• English 200 Excellence in Writing Award ($100 award): Sustainability Education at the University of Dayton by Olivia M. LeBlanc

‘Dracula: Bloodlines’ First-Year Arts Immersion Essay Contest

In this contest, sponsored by the Humanities Commons and the Dean's Office of the College of Arts and Sciences, students were invited to submit an essay or other piece of writing that considered the Dayton Ballet’s production of Dracula: Bloodlines in connection with the theme of power and vulnerability from a literary, philosophical, historical and/or religious studies perspective.

• First prize ($100): ‘Dracula: Bloodlines’ and the Role of Women by Ashley Binzer
• Second prize ($50): Power and Vulnerability: Basis for Revolution? By Katlin Pistone
• Third prize ($25): Power and Vulnerability: How We Can Be Influenced by Christopher Fohl
• Dayton Ballet ticket winner: Thomas H. Burchett