UG Prize Winners 2018-2019

Congratulations to the English Department Undergraduate prize winners for 2018-2019!

Drama Prize

Alexis (AK) Payne ‘19 Marina Keegan Prize for Excellence in Playwriting

Rachel Calnek-Sugin ‘19 - Marina Keegan Prize for Excellence in Playwriting

Fiction Prizes

Nathan Brown ‘19 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Planted”

Mariah Kreutter ‘20 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Affect Theory”

Elliot Lewis ‘22 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “King Lopez”

Helena Lyng-Olsen ‘22J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Out in the Cold”

Henry Reichard ‘19 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Letter from the Asylum”

Nonfiction Prizes

Mariah Kreutter ‘20 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “341”

Ananya Kumar-Banerjee ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing for “Cook and See”

Molly Montgomery ‘19 - Henry P. Wright Prize for ”Mashgiach”

Jared Newman ‘20 - Henry P. Wright Prize for ”Eleven Additional Addresses to the Lord”

Eren Orbey ‘19 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “Mourning through Horror Movies” and other pieces and John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a longer work of nonfiction for “Aftershocks: Fathers, Sons, and the Second Past Tense”

Poetry Prizes

Kinsale Hueston ‘22 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Love Letters from an Urban NDN”

Rachel Kaufman ‘19 - Academy of American Poets and Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for ”Many to Remember”

Esther Ritchin ‘20 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for ”Rats” and other poems

First Year Prizes

Cathy Duong ‘22 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Communicating Pain”

Jesse Godine ‘22 - McLaughlin Memorial for excellence in English composition for “Reading Beckett against Petrarch: Two Poems”

Aurora Gutman ‘22 - McLaughlin Memorial for excellence in English composition for “Queer Subjectivity, Rape and Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

Barbara Mola ‘22 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Hollow”

Macrina Wang ‘22 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize and Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for ”Love, According to an 18-Year-Old who Doesn’t Know Much Better”

Pinyi Zhou ‘22 - McLaughlin Memorial for excellence in English composition for ”Ominous Oscillating Optimism”

Sophomore Prizes

Naima Gupta ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Categorizing Condition(s) of Post-Colonial Femininity”

Alejandra Larriva-Latt ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Femininity Within The Crying of Lot 49”

Sara Luzuriaga ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” and C. Wyllys Betts for “A Modern Papyrus: Unearthing Sappho in If Not, Winter”

American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors

Jordan Cutler-Tietjen ‘20 - Richard Schoenberg Prize “best critical essay upon an American poet” for ”Lights, Camera, (In)Action!: Inverse Ways of Seeing (in) Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Man-Moth’ ”

Eve Sneider ‘19 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American literature for “Waiting to be Found: An Exploration of Janet Malcolm’s Life, Works, and Archive”

Junior Prizes

Gillian Fu ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “The Formation of a Higher Class of Natives: ‘Vernacular’ Education in Colonial Singapore, 1834-1844”

Seth Herschkowitz ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Empires Old and New in The Waste Land”

Mariah Kreutter ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for ‘ “Twig, Hand, Bottle: Colony and Class in Representations of Abortion in 20th Century British Literature”

Senior Prizes

Luke Ciancarelli ‘19 - 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” for “Proust’s Jealous Trinity: Projection, Other Minds, and Penetration”

Olivia Facini ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Be Thou Me”

Daniel Flesch ‘19 - 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 ”Nefarious Name: Psychology, Experience, and the Unspeakable in The Portrait of a Lady”

Veena McCoole ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for ‘ “How Does the Performance of Identity Help Characters Navigate Changing Social Circumstances in Twentieth Century Britain?”

Gillian Monsky ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for ‘ “Neither Here Nor There: Aggravating Effects of the Welfare State on Social Othering in Post-War Britain”

Henry Robinson ‘19 - Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the best senior essay in English for “ ‘Understood by no white’: Black Illegibility in Gwendolyn Brooks’ The Bean Eaters”

Alexa Derman ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Femmepire Strikes Back! (And Back, And Back, And Back…): Sentimentality as Structure in Fan Texts”

Katie Shy ‘19 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an outstanding senior essay in English for ”Women’s Coming of Age: Between Housekeeping and Painting”

Oriana Tang ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “ ‘Need of a fine and fitting dress’: Locating the Interior in the Exterior in Medieval Romance”

David Yaffe-Bellany ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Freedom and Constraint in Jane Campion’s Portrait of a Lady Adaptation”