{"id":7004,"date":"2026-04-28T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:41:03","slug":"creative-and-critical-honors-thesis-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/creative-and-critical-honors-thesis-awards-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative and critical honors thesis awards announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduating seniors <strong>Nicole Reynaga<\/strong> and <strong>Connor Wolfe<\/strong> have received the 2026 Best Honors Thesis Award.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole receives the prize for creative thesis for her poetry collection, <em>Anatomy of an Earthquake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Connor receives the prize for critical thesis for his exploration,\u00a0<em>Wrangling Western Exceptionalism: Subversive Mythmaking in the Anti-Western.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7007 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-112507-1024x380.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-112507-1024x380.png 1024w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-112507-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-112507-768x285.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-112507.png 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The award is supported by the Merrill Moore Endowment.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/news\/\">more news<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduating seniors Nicole Reynaga and Connor Wolfe have received the 2026 Best Honors Thesis Award. Nicole receives the prize for creative thesis for her poetry collection, Anatomy of an Earthquake. Connor receives the prize for critical thesis for his exploration,\u00a0Wrangling Western Exceptionalism: Subversive Mythmaking in the Anti-Western. The award is supported by the Merrill Moore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":7006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-111930-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}