Honorable Mention Essays for 2016

Essays are judged in two rounds.  In the first round each essay is read and ranked independently and anonymously by three judges.  Only a small fraction of those advance to the second round in which each essay is read and ranked by every judge on the entire panel.  The following essays did not win one of the top three prizes in each division but were adjudged worthy of proceeding into the round of finalists.  They are therefore accorded Honorable Mention.

High School Division

Noelle L. Chow, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA: “A Gradual Education: an Exploration of the Many Teachers in Emma.” Mentor: Maya Inspektor.

Madeleine I. Davis, Davis Homeschool, New Braunfels, TX: “Education, Class, and the Transcending Quality of True Wisdom in Emma.” Mentor: Shelley Davis.

Madison DeBruin, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA: “Finding Oneself: Self-Actualization as Education in Emma.” Mentor: Maya Inspektor.

Richa Gupta, The International School, Bangalore, Kamataka, India: “Universality of Moral Edification in Jane Austen’s Emma.”

Ollyvia Lim, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA: “Emma: Redefined Educational Values.” Mentor: Maya Inspektor.

Samuel O. Rausch, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA: “Emma: Education’s Marriage with Matrimony and Society.” Mentor: Maya Inspektor.

Geoffrey A. Robinson, Montdale Homeschool, Moraga, CA: “Education and Salvation in Emma.” Mentor: Magdalene Baert.

Palanki Rupa, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA: “Education in Emma: A Game of ‘Mother May I?’” Mentor: Maya Inspektor.

Alice Tsai, Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore: “The Ornamental Effect of Education on Girls in Emma.” Mentor: Serene Yeo.

Alexander Zlokapa, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA: “Socially Bound: Women’s Education in Emma.” Mentor: Maya Inspektor.

College/University Division

Pauline C. Harris, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA: “The Paradox of the Educated Woman in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Mentor: Laura Bloxham.

Lydia C. Pierson, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA: “Perfect Happiness: Empathy and Emma’s Educational Development.” Mentor: Laura Bloxham.

Kara Need, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA: “Mentoring into Marriage in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Mentor: Laura Bloxham.

Samantha Starkey, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA: “Touching the Sublime: Emma’s Education of Ethics and Aesthetics.” Mentor: Laura Bloxham.

Prashansa Taneja, Bennington College, Bennington, VT: “‘No One But Herself:’ Unlearning ‘Familiarity’ with Mr. Knightley in Emma.” Mentor: Dr. Brooke Allen.

Tom Zille, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany: “‘As far as she could judge’: Emma Woodhouse’s Moral Education and the Concept of Doubt.”

Graduate Division

Rebecca Watson, King’s College, London, UK: “‘Faultless in Spite of Her Faults’: Class Distinction and Education in Emma.” Mentor: Sheila Enright