HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to the English Department Prize winners for 2015-2016!
Drama Prize
Dave Harris ‘16 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting
Fiction Prizes
Sylvia McNamara ‘16 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Beyond the Hills”
Grace Ng ‘16 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Migrant”
Elizabeth O’Toole ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Notes”
Oliver Preston ‘16 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Toward an Essay on That One Time in Ireland”
Oriana Tang ‘19 - Winston T. Townsend Prize for “Conscious Choking”
Nonfiction Prizes
Sylvia McNamara ‘16 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Beyond the Hills”
Grace Ng ‘16 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Migrant”
Elizabeth O’Toole ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Notes”
Oliver Preston ‘16 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Toward an Essay on That One Time in Ireland”
Oriana Tang ‘19 - Winston T. Townsend Prize for “Conscious Choking”
Poetry Prizes
Magdalen Andrews-Hoke ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Poetry
Katherine Garris ‘16 - Albert Stanborough Cook Prize for ”The Atlantic Crossing” and other poems
Kathryn Kaelin ‘16 - Academy of American Poets for “Synapses” and other poems and Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for ”Synapses” and other poems
Hayley Kolding ‘16 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for ”July in Provence” and other poems
Oriana Tang ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Poetry
Tianru Wang ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Poetry
First Year Prizes
Ludivine Brunissen ‘19 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for Excellence in English composition” for ‘ “Shock and Redemption in Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil”
Emma Chanen ‘19 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English Composition for “This Side of Something That’s Not Quite Paradise”
Ahmed Elbenni ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “The Shady Narrator”
Emily Ge ‘19 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “Roots”
Ellen Kan ‘19 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “Full Contact”
Rachel Kaufman ‘19 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for Excellence in English composition” for “Silence or Sound as Recompense”
Yi Qing Liu ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker FIrst Year English Prize for “Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust Part One: A Godly Devil?”
Henry Reichard ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Judging the Dead: Homer’s and Virgil’s Opposing Visions of the Afterlife” and McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “If Mathematics Could Be Painted” and ”To Waste a Life”
Haewon Ma ‘19 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for Excellence in English composition” for “Mi Casa es tu casa: Kinalty Castle and the Appropriation of Space and Status”
Deborah Monti ‘19 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Hit Record: Preventing Discrimination and Police Brutality”
Jacob Stern ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “You Are Not the ‘You’: Divided Selfhood in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen”
Oriana Tang ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for ”Skepticism and Authority in Cervantes’ Don Quixote”
Jackson Willis ‘19 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “A Fatherly Twist and Earthly Turn”
Evaline Xie ‘19 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Transmedia Autobiography”
Sophomore Prizes
Jun Yan Chua ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “’Between Vision and Reception’: Gray’s Elegy and the Making of Educational Modernity”
Erika Lynn-Green ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “’My Greatest Partner of Greatness: Trajectories of Madness in Othello and Macbeth”
Thomas Cusano ‘18 - C. Wyllis Betts Prize for “Corruption in the Skin: Fractured Language and the Quest for Wholeness in Donne’s Sermons and Poetry”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Max Norman ‘18 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for “Re-vision, Recognition, and Melodrama in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl”
Julia Schwarz ‘16 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for “Whitman’s Sacred Verse: Reading His Civil War Poetry in Comparison to His War Journalism”
Junior Prizes
Eve Houghton ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for ”love of the English language and facility in writing” for “How Mary Hillhouse read her Gray”
Hayley Kolding ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for ”love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Fraught Wonder: Reactions to the Rise of Science in ‘The Sensitive Plant’”
Adam Mahler ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for ”love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Ralph Ellison and the Two Brazils”
Senior Prizes
Daniel Ian Rubins ‘16 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English, Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the best senior essay in English for “Under A Rhyming Planet”: Reading Shakespeare’s Plays for Rhyme, and 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”
James Henry Orbison ‘16 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an outstanding senior essay in English for “Across the Killing Field” Race and the Aesthetics of Offense in the Poetry of Frederick Seidel”
Cristabelle Ormiston ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Of Houyhnhnms and Women: The Problem of Sexual Desire in the Utopia”
Douglas Plume ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “By Different Means We Arrive at the Same Ends: Parallelism and Inversion in the Structure of Julius Caesar and MacBeth”
Oliver Preston ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Villa, the Pagoda, the Notebook”
Eve Roth ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Choicest Gift of Heaven”: Elasticity of Mind in Persuasion and House of Mirth”
Julia Rothchild ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “’A Great Deal of Unmapped Country Within Us’: Consciousness and the Environment in George Eliot’s Novels”
Connie Sheung Shing Cheung ‘16 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Experiencing Liminality: Jamesian Protagonists in France”