ENGLISH DEPARTMENT GRADUATE WRITING PRIZES

2008

M.A. Essay Award (The Miron Cristo Loveanu Prize)

Ivan Lupic

Bunner Prize (essay on an American literary topic)

Vesna Bogojevic

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Minou Arjomand


2007

M.A. Essay Award (The Miron Cristo Loveanu Prize)

Deborah T. Aschkenes for "The Style of the Sensorium: Perception and Representation in the Novels of Jane Austen"

Bunner Prize (essay on an American literary topic)

Rachel Serlen for "The Grammar of Democracy: How One Figure of Speech Imagines the Nation" 

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Joseph North for "Reading Anthropomorphism in de Man's 'Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric"


2006

M.A. Essay Award (The Miron Cristo Loveanu Prize) Co-Winners

Brigit McGuire for "Public Speaking: The Wife of Bath, the 1381 Rising,  and Messages Without Words"

Timothy Youker for "This is the Earth's Sound: Thornton Wilder and
the Theater of Unicity"

Bunner Prize (essay on an American literary topic)

Leora Bersohn  for "Melville, His First Voyage: An American Artist Discovers the Old World"

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Sonali Thakkar for "Impossible Voices: Human Rights, Bodily Remains, and the Injunction to Testify"


2005

M.A. Essay Award (The Miron Cristo Loveanu Prize)

Alicia DeSantis for "On Likeness and Its Uses: Looking at the Courtroom Sketch"

Bunner Prize (essay on an American literary topic)

Armando Mastrogiovanni for "'Fabulous Retroactivities': The Occult Democracies of Edgar Allan Poe"

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Abigail Joseph for "Secret Knowledge, Secret Histories: Occultism and Homosexuality in Fin-de-siècle England"


2004

M.A. Essay Award (The Miron Cristo Loveanu Prize) Co-Winners

Ondrea Ackerman for "Walking In and On Ulysses: Unmapping Joyce's Dublin Through a Situationist Perspective"

Andy Lynn for "Undoing the 'Rich Inner Life': Repetition and Expression in Brecht and Adorno"

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Jan Kueveler for "Group Picuture with Lady: A Reading of the (Almost) Same Published Story by Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov and Gustave Flaubert"