ENGLISH DEPARTMENT GRADUATE WRITING PRIZES

2011

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

Mary Grace Albanese for "Imperfect Genealogies: The Cosmopolitan Theatrer of Victor Sejour"

Bunner Prize (essay on an American literary topic)

Michael Paulson  for "Hawthorne's Work on Myth"

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Maria Bo for "A Lost Sheep: Self and Cultural Translation in Yu Dafu


2010


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

Lucy Sheehan for "Trials of Embodiment: Being a Gothic Body in Mary Barton"

Bunner Prize (essay on an American literary topic)

Jarvis McInnis  for "Singing their Subjectivities: Blues Queens' Singing Voices as Sites of Sonic and Symbolic Cultural Memory"

Comparative Literature Award (The Bennett Prize)

Jessica Simon for "Conjuring the Dancer and the Dance: Salome and the Dynamics of the Ekphrastic Encounter?"

20th or 21st Century Poetry Award (The Rachel Wetzsteon Prize )

Michael Lehman for his thesis entitled "What the Living Do: Returning to the Literal in AIDS Poetry"


2009

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

Lindsay Van Tine

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"