The English Department is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest.
First Place: Allison Lanes ’13 for her entry “Ladies Lusting for the Conservative: Enhancing Conservative Didacticism through Morals and Marketing in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Second Place: Adam L. Kelley ’13 for his entry “Humanity Just For Men: Lockean Linguistic Barriers for Feminism in Defoe’s Roxana.”
The focus of the Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest is literature and/or history of England from 1750 – 1900.