- Spohn Award 2010: Melanie Hornbeck and Eric D. Monek Anderson
- Departmental Distinction:
Althea Allen: “Taking Back the Classroom: Maintaining a authority without damaging authorship”
Sally K. Abell: “Tales of the City on the Hill: The Normalizing Capacity of Armistead Maupin’s Series”
Eric D. Monek Anderson: “Hated for What? The Effects of Linguistic Limits on Transgender Identities in Stone Butch Bluesand Boys Don’t Cry”
Melanie L. Hornbeck: “Colonization, Violence, and Family Relationships in Pacific Islands Literature
Emily McNee: “Metaphoric Motherhood and the Female Poet: The Relationship between Motherhood and Poethood in Anne Brandstreet’s Poetry”
Sarah J. Rinehart: “Parody of Parable in Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale”
Benjamin J. Sims: “Allusion, Imitation, and Originality in Book I of The Faerie Queene“ - Sarah E. Ferguson Publishing Award 2010: Lindsey Giaquinto and Marit Hanson
- Departmental Writing Awards 2010:
- Paulson Poetry: Tim Otte ’10
- Rolvaag Fiction: Ally Lynne ’12
- Creative Nonfiction: Sarah Minor ’11
- Winner of 2010 Nick Adams Fiction Contest:
- Andrew Watt ’11
- Honorable Mention to Jennifer Easler ’10