Heartiest congratulations to the English Prize winners for 2024-2025!
Drama Prize
Chesed Chap ’25 – The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for “Fuck the Goat”Fiction Prizes
Isabel Arroyo ’25 – Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “the Plateyard”
Olivia Bell ’25 – Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Permission”
Kaya Dierks ’26 – Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Dead Ringers”
Jun Ray Hoong ’25 – Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Little Sunshine”
Gian Lombeyda ’28 – J. Edward Meeker for First-Year Fiction for “Earth to Alfie”
Netanel Schwartz ’25 – Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “The Rose of the Winds”
Helen Zhang ’28 – J. Edward Meeker First-Year Fiction for “Yet each girl kills”
Nonfiction Prizes
Brynne Aidlin-Perlman ’25 – Henry P. Wright Prize for “Fighting for Freedom Over 20 Years Later”
Chesed Chap ’25 – Henry P. Wright Prize for “Boyish”
Arthur Delot-Vilain ’25 – John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “A Body of Journalistic Work”
Evan Gorelick ’25 – John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “A Body of Journalistic Work”
Molly Hill ’25 – John Hersey Prize for a longer work of nonfiction for “Parrot Pidgin”
Kate Reynolds ’25 – John Hubbard Curtis Prize for a longer work of nonfiction for “The Smallest Victim”
Rachel Shin ’25 – John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “A Body of Journalistic Work”
Etai Smotrich-Barr ’26 – Henry P. Wright Prize for “As Many Hats As Pleases The Maker”
Poetry Prizes
Maisie Bilston ’26 – Academy of American Poets and Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “The Consecration of Westminster Abbey on Holy Innocents’ Day, 1065” and other poems
Jem Burch ’25 – Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Time Piece” and other poems
Smile Jiang ’28 – J. Edward Meeker First-Year Poetry Prize for “On the Metro North” and other poems
Netanel Schwartz ’25 – Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Eulogy” and other poems
First-Year Essay Prizes
Saron Ghaim ’28 – Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Misattribution: Undoing a Pre-Colonial Template”
Maria Gil Marin Goncalves ’28 – Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Tradition in a Casing or Disguised Economy? How the Portuguese Alheiras Stir Controversy”
Isaiah Harvey ’28 – Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “The Evolution of Escapism: Healthy Stress Relief through Video Games”
Smile Jiang ’28 – McLaughlin Memorial Prize for excellence in English composition for “Lexicons of Love: Examining Emma Bovary as a Reader in Madame Bovary”
Noah Lee ’28 – McLaughlin Memorial Prize for excellence in English composition for “Distortion Artists, ou Les Poètes”
Tali Kantor Lieber ’28 – “On Seeing and Being Seen”
Max Lu ’28 – Winston T. Townsend Prize ‘for excellence in English composition” for “Beyond the Numbers: How Media Framing Transforms Political Polling Data into Narrative”
Itamar Olmert ’28 – McLaughlin Memorial Prize for excellence in English composition for “Blake’s Human Sublime”
Danny Robaina ’28 – J. Edward Meeker First-Year English Prize for “Addison”
Elizabeth Simmons ’28 - J. Edward Meeker First-Year English Prize for “Buzzard’s Bay”
Uma Sukhu ’28 – J. Edward Meeker First-Year English Prize for Analog Photography and Armchair Psychology”
Sophomore Prizes
Claire Newman ’27 - C. Wyllis Betts Prize for “Wooing Nothing: Ornamentation & the Commonplace in George Herbert’s Temple”
Claire Spence ’27 – John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “’Naked Woman, Black Woman’: Visibility, Opacity and the Politics of Female Representation in the Nationalist Imaginary”
Ashley Wang ’27 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “Sympathy’s Double-Edged Alienation in A Sentimental Journey and Ourika”
Junior Prizes
Maisie Bilston ’26 – John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Junior Essays for “The Alligator and I”
Allie Gruber ’26 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “’Tis Death is Dead, Not He’: Emotional and Psychological Anticipations in Adonais”
James Prud’homme ’26 – John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Tennyson’s Task”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Grace Dodd ’26 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for “Tracing Truths: Folklore, the Self, and Subversion in Dust Tracks on a Road”
Lucy TonThat ’26 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for “the best critical essay upon an American poet” for “A Rose is Not a Rose: Rose Rocks, Rock Roses, and the Psychosexual Breast in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics”
Senior Prizes
Uma Arengo ’25 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English for “The Supplicant ‘Voice’ of Christ in the Old English Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter”
Madeline Art ’25 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Croix Black ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Love’s Bitter Mystery: Modern Shapes of Romance in Intermezzo and Ulysses”
Alessia Degraeve ’25 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Catherine Papanasam Setlur Kausikan ’25 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Madeline Levin ’25 - Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Best Senior Essay in English for “Letters to God: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Language of Divine Address”
Jessica Liu ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Acousmatic Sound and Queer Disorientation in the Poetics of Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and Eileen Myles”
Kate Reynolds ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Stephen Dedalus: A ‘Lapwing,’ and György Lukács’ Hero”
Netanel Schwartz ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “’Which is the way to Master Jew’s?’: Reading for Subtext in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” and the 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”
Tyus Sheriff ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Good and Evil Counsel: The Figure of Pericles in Thomas Hobbes’s Translation of Thucydides”
Rachel Shin ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Cultivating Failure: James Schuyler’s Queer Flowers
Luke Tillitski ’25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons, Black Leopards, and Red Wolves? Marlon James’s Post-postcolonial Fantasy and the Reconfiguration of a Genre”
Luke Tyson ’25 - Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major