“Out of the Western Box: Rethinking Popular Cultural Categories from the Perspective of East German Science Fiction Studies” Graduate Student Paper Award winner
“'Wherever you go, there you are': Postmodern Pastiche and Oppositional Rhetoric in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension” Graduate Student Paper winner
“Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy's Cyborgian Narrative” Graduate Student Paper winner