The Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship in English |
1st Place: Veronica Cepin
Michael Quatro
2nd Place: Shokrey Eldaly |
“Shards of Faith”
“The Gates of Poetry: The Influence of the Theory of Forms on the English Romantic Poets”
“Tellin’ It” |
The Helen Gray Cone Fellowship in English |
1st Place: Holly Martis
2nd Place: Michael Quatro
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“Lineages of American Fascism: A Study of Margaret Walker’s Historical Novel Jubilee”
“Explaining the Familiar: The Knight and Squire in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” |
The Randolph and Eliza Guggenheimer Prize for Distinguished Work in English Literature |
Ebony Brown
Tyleen Louise Kelly
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“A Raisin in the Sun: The Fallacy of the American Dream”
“Ghostly Betrayal: The Reader’s Uncomfortable Proximity to Browning’s Diabolical Characters” |
The Miriam Weinberg Richter Award for Conspicuous Ability in some field of English |
Eva Talmadge
Paul Fess |
“Northern”
“‘Come Let Us Our Rites Begin’: Milton’s Comus and New Orleans Mardi Gras” |
The Harvey Minkoff Award |
Not awarded in 2008. |
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The David Stevenson Award to an Outstanding Student in Shakespeare Studies |
Ruth Kornegay-Baez
Honorable Mention: Amy Vogel |
“Male Honor and Gender Relationships in Much Ado About Nothing: Fear to Trust”
“A Lear For All Ages” |
The Wendell Stacy Johnson Memorial Award |
Eleanor Moonier
Honorable Mention: Michael Quatro |
“Nature, Youth and Revolution in William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads”
“Both Man and Bird and Beast: Religious Ecology in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’” |
The Matthew Ray Weisen Prize for Command of the Discipline of Standard American English |
Michael Quatro
Honorable Mention: Phillip Perez |
“A Conscious Begetting: The Word and the World in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
“Slave, Christian, Hero, Scholar: Building a Resume to Combat Slavery” |
The Mary McElligott Gloster Award |
Tyleen Louise Kelly
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“The Window, The Well, and the Wall: Gravity’s Hostile Omnipresence in Jude the Obscure” |
The Alice Minnie Herts
Heniger Scholarship |
Veronica Kerrodar
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“Teaching Diversity in Young Adult Literature” |
The Harry Rosenfeld-Berle Reade and Ida Solomon Reade Prize |
Lashawn Ayers
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“Dissolving the Boundary: Applying the Hybridization of ‘Culture’ in Middle Passage, The Farming of Bones, and The Birth of African American Culture” |
The Camilla Schweiger Endowed Scholarship |
Belia Mayeno Saavedra
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“Walk Like a Man: Imagination vs. Emasculation in Marshall, Danticat and Roumain” |
The Roslyn Berson Stein Scholarship in English |
Maria Estevez
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“Tie the Knot” |
The Katherine H. Gatch and Marion Witt Fellowship Award |
Andrew Reyes
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“Teaching English in Japan” |
The Academy of American Poets Prize |
Claire Beresford
Aleksandra Hogendorf
Honorable Mention: Amar Sharma
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“Music You Don’t Need Ears For”“ Beach Weather”
“The Fatwa” |
The Mary M. Fay Award in Poetry |
1st Place: Maya Funaro
Alison Rogers
2nd Place: Caledonia Kearns
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“A Question”
“Statue of Cupid and Psyche by Canova”
“The Lives of Others” and “Craftwork” |
The Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize |
Eva Talmadge
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“The Cranes” |
The Andrew and Eleanor McGlinchee Prize for a Play |
Andrew Reyes
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“The New Jerusalem” |
The Frances Packer and Mildred Dattner Memorial Prize for a Short Personal Essay |
Micah Bochart |
“Overnight” |
The Tessie K. Scharps Prize for Creative Writing |
Arlene Schulman
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“The Solitary Shopper” |
The Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing |
Phillip Joseph
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“Growing Up Overground” |
The Audre Lorde Award |
Giulia Zeni |
“Sixteen” |
The Memoir Prize ** |
Sara Nelson |
“Traces” |
Lenore Lipstein Memorial Poetry Award |
Stephanie Van Winkle
Honorable Mention:
Carolyn Turney Gutierrez
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“Cohabitation”
“When She Gave Up”
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The English 120 Prize |
1st Place: Gabriela Etzensberger
2nd Place: Jamie Lyn Bruce
Justin Giles
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“The Issue of Identity in the Children of ‘Desaparecidos”
“Violence in the Media and its Impact on School Shootings”
“Politics and Humor: A Perfect Combination for a More Intelligent Populace” |
