Heartiest congratulations to the English Prize winners for 2017-2018!
Drama Prize
Alexa Derman ‘18 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for “Girlish” and “Psychopsychotic”
Fiction Prizes
Amrutha Dorai ‘18 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Strangers”
Julia Gournay ‘21 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Fiction for “Last Rites”
Sara Luzuriaga ‘21 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Fiction “Where the Sink Ends”
Deborah Monti ‘19 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “A Novel About Tocumen”
Oriana Tang ‘19 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Strangers”
Nonfiction Prizes
Elena Saavedra Buckley ‘18 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “The Prophetic Lobsters of the Long Island Sound” and other pieces
Rachel Calnek-Sugin ‘19 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Matador”
Emma Chanen ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Poisin”
Eren Orbey ‘19 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Changing Names”
Jacob Stern ‘19 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a Longer Work of Nonfiction for “Glory Be to the Lamb”
Poetry Prizes
Lydia Burleson ‘21 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for Freshman Poetry for ”Canto IX.V: Imagining a Hell for Atheists”
Israel Kassim ‘23 - Academy of American Poets and Albert Stanborough Cook Prize for “Africa Talks to You” and other poems
Oriana Tang ‘19 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Autumn”
First Year Prizes
Julia Adams ‘21 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for ”Desire and Discourse: The Evolution of Female Homoeroticism in the Victorian Era”
Lauren Chan ‘21 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for ”Convicted: Shame, Sacrifice, and Liberation in Walt Whitman’s Work”
Allison Chen ‘21 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for ”China’s Rebellious Daughter”
Chloe Jensen ‘21 -J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for ”Grass and Ghosts: The Tension Between Life and Deth in ‘Song of Myself’ and ‘A Birthday Memorial to Seventh Street”
John Kelly ‘21 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for ”Storm of the Millenium: Imagery and Imagination in News and Political Speech”
Zyria Rogers - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for ‘ “Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me This Was a Waste?”
Kira Sze ‘21 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Disordered Love”
Karen Tai ‘21 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for ‘ “Rousseau’s Contradiction: Amour Propre or Private Property”
Daniel Yadin ‘21 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for ”Memories and Demery’s : Yale’s Heavy Hand Over One Broadway”
Sophomore Prizes
Vanessa Chung ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Ineffable Smiles: Violet Effingham and Trollope’s Honesty in Phineaus Finn” and C. Wyllis Betts Prize for “ ‘Cold Comforts’ and ‘[Un-]Gilded Tomb[s]: Shakespeare, Heaney, and the Art of Eulogy”
Rachel Koh ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language for ‘ “Breaking Waves: Group Portraiture in Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Luke Ciancarelli ‘19 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for “the best critical essay upon an American poet” for ”Dickinson’s Sublime: Interiority, Language and Originality”
Thomas Parish ‘20 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for ”Not Being There for Your Audience”
Junior Prizes
Gabrielle Coloma ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Grounding Black M odernism: James Weldon Johnson and the Challenges of the Black Modernist Poet”
Rachel Kaufman ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Remembering in Woolf’s Works: The Female Figure as Agent of Memorialization”
Henry Robinson ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Natural Violences: Landscape in Lessing’s ‘The Grass is Singing’ and Duras’s ‘The Lover’ ”
Senior Prizes
Mert Dilek ‘18 - Sholom & Marcia Herson Scholarship Prize “for students in the Senior Class … who shall have done outstanding work in English Language and Literature and who intend to do graduate work in English literature” and Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English
Isabella Giovannini ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay and Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major
Shalisa James ‘18 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay
Noah Kim ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay
Jacob Potash ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay
Finnegan Schick ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay
Grace Shi ‘18 - Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Best Senior Essay in English
William Willis ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay and Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major