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			CONTACTS Graduate Coordinator for the English Department: Virginia Kay 602 Philosophy Hall (212) 854-6475 vek2001@columbia.edu For information on applications/admissions: GSAS Admissions Departmental officers for 2011-12 Departmental Events Student Publications Doctoral Degrees Awarded Placement and Fellowship Results Past Writing Prize Winners GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS Seth Williams' MA essay, "[Re-enter Will Kemp]: Dance, Print, and Conformity in Kemps Nine Daies Wonder," has been awarded the Spring 2012 Miron Cristo-Loveanu Prize for the best MA essay in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Erica Richardson's MA essay, "Woman and Color: Figuring Black Futurity in the Sociological and Narrative Work of W.E.B. Du Bois" has won the Spring 2012 Bunner Prize for the best essay on a topic relating to American Literature. Jayne Hildebrand has won the Bennett Prize for her MA essay, "Theatre As Medium: David Garrick's Shakespeare, Blank Verse, and William Cowper's The Task." The Bennett Prize is designed to reward the best essay on a comparative topic. Ben VanWagoner has been awarded the Rachel Wetzsteon Prizefor his MA essay, "Corioli: Character as a Locus of Social Force." This prize honors the best essay on twentieth or twenty-first century poetry.