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- Jazmine Reyes wins 2010 Uehling prize
The Department of English has awarded the 2010 Margot Ann Uehling Prize for Writing to Jazmine Reyes for her essay, “ Debunking the Myths of Masculinity: George Eliot’s Critique of Victorian Masculinities via Edward Casaubon of Middlemarch.” Honorable mention was awarded to three writers, Ariel Jamison for her essay, "What's Worth Noise," Ciara Reyes for "Redeeming the Underground Man: Writing as a Vehicle of Redemption in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, and Hannah Scupham for "Regal Vignettes."
Jazmine Reyes, from Schereville, Indiana, is a sophomore American Studies major and member of Christ College. She and her sister Ciara Reyes make up the singing duo “Rosebud.”
The Margot Ann Uehling Prize, awarded to the best non-fiction prose essay written last year by a Valparaiso University undergraduate student not graduating before December, 2010, honors the memory and achievements of teacher, scholar, and writer Margot Uehling, sister of Professor Edward Uehling, Chair of the Valparaiso Department of English.