UG Prize Winners 2014-2015

May 22, 2015

Heartiest congratulations to the Prize Winners!

Drama Prize

Eric Sirakian ‘15 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence

Fiction Prizes

Thomas Cusano ‘18J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “We Live in the Woods”

Nimal Eames-Scott ‘15 Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “The Inheritance of Jawbone Brown”

Minami Funakoshi ‘15 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “A Love Story”

Vincent Tolentino ‘15 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Dawning”

Nonfiction Prizes

Yuval Ben-David ‘16Henry P. Wright Prize for “Smoke, Stray, Love”

Daniel Judt ‘17Shorter non-fiction essay by sophomore for “Silences”

Rachel Lipstein ‘15John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a Longer Work of Nonfiction for “Dry Dock”

Noah Remnick ‘15John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Song Remains the Same” and other essays  

Poetry Prizes

Abigail Carney ’15Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Selected Poems” and other poems

Jake Orbison ‘16Academy of American Poets and Albert Stanborough Cook Prize for “Portrait in White” and other poems

First Year Prizes

Evangeline Cai ‘18 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Tenets of Education Reform: Post-Progressive Education and the Search for a Quiet Democracy”

Alois Cerbu ‘18 - Bloch Prize for “Haecceity at the Heart of Poetic Hiccups” 

Thomas Cusano ‘18 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Madness as Method” 

Alexa Derman ‘18 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “‘Off’rings of the World’: Empire and Iteration in The Rape of the Lock”

Julia Feldstein ‘18 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for  “Austen’s Guide to a Successful Marriage: Distinguishing Happiness and Satisfaction in Pride and Prejudice” 

Ruiyi Gao ‘18J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for  “Redefining Childhood?: The Politics of New York’s Juvenile Offender Law of 1978” 

Simon Horn ‘18 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “A Living Death” 

Mrinal Kumar ‘18 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Looking In” 

Rhea Kumar ‘18 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “China in Africa: The Role of ‘Non-Official Development Assistance’ in Emerging Economies” 

Alexander Ringlein ‘18 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Mining Meaning” 

Griffin Shoglo-Rubenstein ‘18Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for 

Woojeong Song ‘18 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Lacanian Sublimation in Nabokov’s Lolita” 

Amy Xu ‘18McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “Summer, 2004” 

Sophomore Prizes

Eve Houghton ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for  “‘Within the compasse of her dominions’: Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Proportion” 

Hayley Kolding ‘17John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for  “Some Kind of a Show: Tonal Incarnations of the Unpublished ‘Sugar Hill’” 

Vivian Wang ‘17C. Wyllis Betts Prize for “The Nursing Infant and Mature Poet: Poetic Development through Companionship”

Junior Prizes

Oliver Preston ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “The Charming Strife: Depression, Poetic Labor, and Sympathy in William Cowper’s The Task” 

William Theiss ‘16John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Learning the Future in the Underworld of Paradise Lost” 

American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors

Carlee Jensen ‘15Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for “‘Fain Give Succor’: Subversive Vocabularies and the Ethics of Belonging in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

Vincent Tolentino ‘15Richard Schoenberg Prize for the “best critical essay upon an American poet” for “Knowledge Flown in Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘At the Fishhouses’”

Senior Prizes

Courtney Halgren ‘15 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “The Role of Children in the Experience of 19th Century Professional and Amateur Theater” 

Connor Hoge ‘15 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “The Holographic Novel: Optical Physics in Infinite Jest” 

Gabrielle Hoyt-Disick ‘15 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “The Unseen Scene: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and Modernism in The Portrait of a Lady” 

Carlee Jensen ‘15 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English for ‘”That Goodly Fellowship’: Female Solidarity and Subjectivity in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene” 

Kyra Morris ‘15 - 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 John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “‘Virginia Woolf’s Theories of Self: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and ‘A Sketch of the Past’” 

Alexandra Pollak ‘15 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for  “‘For there she was’: Character and the Present Moment in Mrs. Dalloway” 

Felicity Sheehy ‘15Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English and Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Best Senior Essay in English for “‘The Novel Can’t Just Leave War Out’: Explicit and Implicit War representation in Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction”and Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major

Vincent Tolentino ‘15John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “‘For This is No Fable’: Proportion and Suppression in The Physician’s Tale”