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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations to our department's Kate Olson (Lit Hum) and Garrett Ziegler (CC) – this year’s recipients of the Core Preceptor Award for Teaching Excellence.

The Graduate Student Council representatives for 2007-08 are Jennifer Buckley, Mary Kate Hurley, Katie Gradowski, and Sarah Minsloff.

The English Department's representatives to the Graduate Student Advisory Council for 2007-08 are Natalie Brown and Sara Murphy.

Reports on past meetings. back to top

Recipients of the 2007 English Department GRADUATE WRITING PRIZES   M.A. ESSAY AWARD (The Miron Cristo Loveanu Prize) DEBORAH T. ASCHKENES "The Style of the Sensorium: Perception and Representation in the Novels of Jane Austen."   BUNNER AWARD (essay on an American literary topic) RACHEL SERLEN "The Grammar of Democracy: How One Figure of Speech Imagines the Nation."   COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AWARD (The Bennett Prize) JOSEPH NORTH "Reading Anthropomorphism in de Man's 'Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric.'"   Past Prize Winners

STUDENT PUBLICATIONS / AWARDS

Derrick Higginbotham, "Impersonators in the Market: Merchants and the Premodern Nation in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament," Exemplaria (2006)

David Kurnick, "'Horrible Impossible': Henry James's Awkward Stage." The Henry James Review 26 (2005): 109-129. Congratulations to Mr. Kurnick who received the 2005 Leon Edel Prize (awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar) for this essay.

Tianhu Hao, “Ku Hung-Ming, an Early Chinese Reader of Milton.” Milton Quarterly 39.2 (May 2005): 93-100. back to top