HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to the English Department Prize winners for 2022-2023!
Drama Prize
Elliot Lewis - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for ”Take This, and Build Something”
Fiction Prizes
Tony Hao ‘23 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “The Medicine”
Jun Ray Hoong ‘25 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Growing Pains”
Charlotte Huges ‘25 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Hall of Heads”
Solenne Jackson ‘25 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Physical Education”
Eli Osei ‘26 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Fiction for “Stage Reading #1”
Nonfiction Prizes
Ella Attell ‘23 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Waiting Room”
Naomi Goodheart ‘23 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “I Am the Seagull” and John Hubbard Curtis Prize in Journalism for a longer work of nonfiction for “Mental Health Records”
Madison Hahamy ‘24 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Turmoil at the Toledo Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette”
Logan Klutse ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize and John Hersey Prize for a longer work of nonfiction for “Liner Notes”
Audrey Kolker ‘25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Sophomore and Junior Essays for “Please Laugh”
Elliot Lewis ‘23 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “Body of Journalistic Work, with Focus on Environmental Justice and Food Justice”
Isabella Zou ‘23 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “Collected journalistic works”
Poetry Prizes
Hailey Carter ‘23 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Between the Past and the Present”
Vaughn Goehrig ‘23 - Academy of American Poets Prize and Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Meta and other poems”
Corine Huang ‘26 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Poetry for “6 Poems”
Logan Klutse ‘23 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Family Beside the Hudson and other poems”
First Year Prizes
Lu Arie ‘26 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Sleek Flickable Tossable Shakeable Touchable Finger-through-able Wind-blowable Hair”
Keya Bajaj ‘26 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “The Problem of Eroticism” and honorable mention for “Love Stings”
Anisia Hassan Ferreira Evangelista ‘26 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “ ‘The Favela Problem’: Brazilian Slums Under Siege from State and Media”
Benjamin Gervin ‘26 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “The Sounds of Silence: Solitude, Experience, and Memory in ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ ”
Kyra Kaya ‘26 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Ho’omau: The Influence of Technology on the Indigenous Voice”
Samantha Liu ‘26 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Languages of Liberation: Musically exploring Evie Shockley’s improvisation on Baldwin’s Blues”
Jack Rodriquez ‘26 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “A Reflection on Shared Bathrooms”
Miye Sugino ’26 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Never Sick”
Caroline Utermann ’26 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “Hysterical, or simply struggling? An analysis of female characters in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘Nadja’”
Megan Wright ‘26 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Puppets: Little Amal, Alan Kurdi, and the Limits of Sentiment”
Sophomore Prizes
Sarah Feng ‘25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “A Refuge Made to Break: Sleep and the Garden of Eden”
Kate Reynolds ‘25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “ ‘Something He Uses To Dream About In Trinidad’: Gender, Migration, and Interracial Sex in British Colonial Literature”
Abigail Sylvor Greenberg ‘25 - C. Wyllis Betts Prize and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “David Walker and the Radical Speech Act of Appeal”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Logan Klutse ‘23 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for “The Role of the Reimagined, Democratized Choras in In the Red and Brown Water”
Aaron Magloire ‘23 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for “the best critical essay on some American poet or some phase of American poetry” for “While Outside the Landscape Glistens”
Junior Prizes
Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “ ‘This Miserable Frame’: Spivak, Austin, and the Verbalization of Self-Immolation in Frankenstein”
Katie Taylor ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “ ‘Magnificently Plebian’: Millicent Henning’s Politics in The Princess Casamassima”
Senior Prizes
Ali Brown ‘23 - Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for outstanding work in the English major, and the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Beasie Goddu ‘23 - 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 for “Forster’s Muddle: The Construction of Female Freedom in A Room with a View”
Isaac Gruber ‘23 - Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for outstanding work in the English major; Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English; and Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Best Senior Essay in English for “ ‘Not a matter of any importance’: The parentheses (and brackets) of Virginia Woolf”
Rachel Handler ‘23 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English for “Nature, Including Human Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of the Poetry of Robert Frost”
Logan Klutse ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Organic Reappropriations & Alternate Genealogies of Science-Fiction (Tropes) in Lagoon”
Elliot Lewis ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Globalization Anxiety in Two Broad-Sides Against Tobacco”
Clara Park ‘23 - 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 the John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “The Melodramatic 19th Century Novel: Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy”
Kennedy Schwiebert ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “The English Major: Seekers of Truth & Defenders of Illusion”