The Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition encourages students at Washington University to read for enjoyment and to develop personal libraries throughout their lives.
The competition started in 1988 and the collection contains the award-winning essays of both undergraduate and graduate students from 2003 to present. Details about the Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition are announced through the University Libraries.
Essays from 2006
The Kindred Spirits of my Dusty Upper Shelf , Wendy Xin
Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2006. 19th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Essays from 2005
On My Friends , Temu Brown
Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Japan, The Ambiguous, and My Shelf , James W. Hofman II
Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
From Salonika to America and Back , Devin Naar
Undergraduate Winner: 1st Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Well-Tempered Elegance: A Collection Of 1950s Literary Criticism , Rachel Slaughter
Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Essays from 2004
Dissecting Meaning from the Parts: the Anatomy of a Personal Collection , Aimée Dowl
Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2004. 17th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Forbidden Passion into Personal Collection , Heide Spear
Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2004. 17th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Essays from 2003
Constructing Meaning from the World: A Fusion of International Fiction, Poetry and Essays , Stephanie Hanson
Undergraduate Winner: 1st Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Zap! Pow! Out!: Twentieth Century Queer Comics , Michael Murphy
Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Marginally Speaking: A Collection of Modernist and Post-Modernist Texts , Steven A. Pijut
Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Jesus, Muhammad and the Relentless War for Peace , Steve Scharre
Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.