HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to the English Department Prize winners for 2016-2017!
Drama Prize
Dave Harris ‘16 - The Marina Keegan Award forExcellence in Playwriting
Fiction Prizes
Irene Connolly ‘17 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Evacuation”
Libbie Katsev ‘17 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Last Uprising in Leningrad”
Leigh Vila ‘17 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Trials”
Jared Newman ‘20 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “The Violinist”
Nonfiction Prizes
Skyler Inman ‘17 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “longer work of nonfiction” for “Women Who Ride”
Daniel Judt ‘18 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Rutland’s Refugees” and other essays
Katherine Lin ‘18 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Scholastic Ineptitude Test”
Aaron Orbey ‘19 - John Hubbard Curtis “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Mourning Through Horror Movies”
Elena Saavedra Buckley ‘18 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “The Count”
Vivian Wang ‘17 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “General Tso’s Chicken Wings”
Poetry Prizes
Rachel Kaufman ‘19 - Albert Stanborough Cook Prize for “Many to Remember”
Hayley Kolding ‘17 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Talking About Music” and other poems
Hayley Kolding ‘16 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for ”July in Provence” and other poems
Carrie Mannino ‘20 - Academy of American Poets and J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Poetry for “11.9.16” and other poems
First Year Prizes
Bradford Case ‘20 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Dante, Poet and Pilgrim”
Mariah Kreutter ‘20 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “A Critical Eye: Sight and Perception in Pride and Prejudice”
Gabriel Malek ‘20 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English Composition for “Reconciling Unity and Duality through the Traveler and Crocodile”
Hanah Lee ‘20 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for Excellence in English composition” for “The ‘Bamboo’ Ceiling: How Framing of Asian Americans in Media Propagates Harmful Stereotypes”
Jared Newman ‘20 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Anticipating the Village: Whitman’s Geography of Queerness in ‘Live Oak, with Moss’”
Anastasiia Posnova ‘20 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for Excellence in English composition” for “Protecting Children from Harmful Information in Russia: Applying Obsolete Ideas to New Policies”
Amrit Rau ‘20 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “No. 19, Runnymede Meadow, Surrey, England”
Marwan Safar Jalani ‘20 - McLaughlin Memorial for excellence in English composition for “The Syrian Way of Life”
Zhe Tian Yang ‘20 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “City Glaze”
Marina Tinone ‘20 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Freedom to Follow, Liberty to Disobey, Justice above All: Privileging Language in Milton’s Paradise Lost”
Liana Van Nostrand ‘20 - McLaughlin Memorial for excellence in English composition for “A Body in Two Parts”
Sophomore Prizes
Frances Lindemann ‘19 - C. Wyllis Betts for “‘We Persisted Each Alone’: The Art of Phrase-Making in To The Lighthouse” and John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Eve Between the Lines: Reading for Desire in Paradise Lost”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Thomas Cusano ‘18 - Richard Schoenberg Prize “best critical essay upon an American poet” for “‘Sparkle and Hum and Flow’: Mirrored Language and AIDS in James Merrill’s A Scattering of Salts”
Erika Lynn-Green ‘18 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American literature for “‘Re-Bop Ne-Bop Mop and Stop’: Langston Hughes and Bebop’s Cultural Disruption”
Junior Prizes
Mert Dilek ‘18 - John Hubbard Curtis for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “The ‘Associational Magic’ of Consciousness in What Maisie Knew”
Senior Prizes
Chris Cappello ‘17 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an outstanding senior essay in English for “Consuming Consummation: The Fatal Films of Cronenberg, Roszak, and Wallace” 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 in English literature”
Zachary Elkind ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “‘To Double Business Bound’: Shakespeare’s Theatrical Doubling”
Eve Houghton ‘17 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English, John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Ghost in the Machine: Inwardness in The Faerie Queene” and Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the best senior essay in English for “Pretending to Read: Humanist Culture and the Anxieties of Abridgement”
Sarah “Beah” Jacobson ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “‘So Strange an Adventure’: Geographies of transgression and Generic Imperialism in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World”
Hayley Kolding ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Across Word and Image: Triangulation in Great Expectations and Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon’s gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound”
Adam Mahler ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “‘Whyl We Han Space to Speke’: Chaucer’s Capacious English in the House of Fame”
Cara Meyer ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “‘Th’unsearchable dispose of highest wisdom’: John Milton’s Samson Agonistes and the History of Sacred Violence, 1671-2008”
Max Norman ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “‘Every word is hart-deep’: George Herbert’s Pattern Poetry and the Work of the Heart”
Ivy Sanders Schneider ‘17 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “‘More Terror Than Delight’: Racial Anxiety and Exogamous Relations in Trans-Atlantic Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century”