HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to the English Department Prize winners for 2019-2020!
Drama Prize
Walker Caplan ‘20 - Marina Keegan Prize for Excellence in Playwriting for “WINNERS,” and “FULL-TIME”
Carrie Mannino ‘20 - Marina Keegan Prize for Excellence in Playwriting for “It Couldn’t Happen Here,” “The News”
Fiction Prizes
Joshua Baize ‘20 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Plaza”
David Hurtado ‘20 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Facts & Fictions”
George Nighswander ‘22 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction for “Trial Period”
Jessica Wang ‘23 - J. Edward Meeker First Year Prize for “American Girl Doll”
Nonfiction Prizes
Sabrina Bustamante ‘20 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Dispatches from a Scorched Earth”
Emma Brodey ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Directed Sexualities”
Hailey Fuchs ‘20 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “body of work” for “Holding Power Accountable”
Paul Gross ‘20 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “body of work” for “Absolute Shield”
Mara Hoplamazian ‘20 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “body of work” for “The Challenger” and other pieces
Charles Lee ‘20 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Roman Heat”
TC Martin ‘20 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “body of work” for “The Body Thus Confesses: Coming of Age as a Fat Man”
Annie Rosenthal ‘20 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for “body of work” for “The Searchers”
Marina Tinone ‘20 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “A Unica”
Adam Tucker ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Allergies in a Nutshell”
Poetry Prizes
Olivia Belliveau ‘20 - Academy of American Poets and Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Excerpts from Ordinary Green”
Emma Brodey ‘21 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Poems”
Elena Castro ‘23 - J. Edward Meeker First Year Prize for “Pause, Says the World”
Eileen Huang ‘22 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Silent Angels”
Forrest LaPrade ‘23 - J. Edward Meeker First Year Prize for “Dusk”
Jared Newman ‘20 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Interlude at Culloden Point” and other poems
Tiana Wang ‘20 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Selections from ‘Amateur Tasseography’”
First Year Prizes
Zachary Andalman ‘23 - J. Edward Meeker First Year Prize for “How to Jazz”
Kanyinsola Anifowoshe ‘23 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for “‘Blood, Thou Art Blood’: Navigating Humanity and Justice in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”
Mathis Bitton ‘23 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for “Being and Nothingness: The Tragedy of Charles Bovary”
Alison Brown ‘23 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for “Pottery, People, and Other Things That Are Better When Broken”
Jack Delaney ‘23 - Bloch Prize for “Ambiguous Joy in Bishop’s ‘The Moose’”
Daniel Edison ‘23 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Ecologies of Freedom: Agricultural Practice and Policy in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue”
Serena Lin ‘23 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “How to Write an Asian Diaspora Poem”
Hilary Nguyen ‘23 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Transformations in Transcultural Adaptations”
Olivia Tucker ‘23 - J. Edward Meeker First Year Prize for “Driving with My Dad”
Adam Zhang ‘23 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Multicultural Music Therapy”
Sophomore Prizes
Cathy Duong ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Rooting, Uprooted”
Jesse Godine ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “A Postmodern Poet and a Sufi Mystic: Extrapolations and Reciprocities” and C. Wylls Betts Prize for “A Postmodern Poet and a Sufi Mystic”
Aurora Grutman ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Science and Anti-Spectacle in Frankenstein”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Maslen Ward ‘20 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American literature and Richard Schoenberg Prize “best critical essay upon an American poet” for “Kara Walker: Standing in the Same Place, but Redirecting the Gaze”
Junior Prizes
Gabrielle Colangelo ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Mother Never Untender”
Daniel Yadin ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “The Ambience of Empire”
Senior Prizes
Andrew Ballard ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Matrix of the Heart Destruction in the Love Poems of Hart Crane” 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”
Nicole Blackwood ‘20 - Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the best senior essay in English for “’The Perfect Appearance of Reality’: Locating Symbiosis Between Romance and Realism in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion”
Julia Carabatsos ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “’How cleverly she’s arranged her drawing room’: Designing Women in Edith Wharton”
Vanessa Chung ‘20 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English and Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the best senior essay in English for “‘Silence’ in James and Woolf”
Max Graham ‘20 - 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 “Tending to Wild”: Wilderness and the Trouble with Ecology in Paradise Lost
Janis Jin ‘20 - Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Prize awarded in the fall to a senior for distinguished excellence in English composition and the study of English literature and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Right to Freedom: Human Rights and the North Korean Defector Testimony”
Mariah Kreutter ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “’The Embedded Epistle, the Embodied Epistle’: Letters, Truth, and Desire in Women’s Fiction, Jane Austen to Sally Rooney”
Charles Lee ‘20 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an outstanding senior essay in English for “Narrative and Identity in Joyce’s ‘Circe’” and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “The Epistemological Significance of Religious Language in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima and The Golden Bowl”
Sean Lynch ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “History’s Vise: The Tenacity of Trauma in Absalom, Absalom!”
Jared Newman ‘20 - Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Prize awarded in the fall to a senior for distinguished excellence in English composition and the study of English literature and Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an outstanding senior essay in English for “All We Know is Ears: Diacritics, Dialect, and Voicing in John Berryman’s The Dream Songs”
Lucy Silbaugh ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “A Chekhovian Framework: Subversive Endings in Dubliners”
Liana van Nostrand ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Eliza Haywood’s Experiments in Persona: Constructing the Eighteenth-Century Woman Reader and Writer”
Minh Vu ‘20 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for ““After Postmemory: Vietnamese American Futurity and Underground Subjectivities” in The Gangster We Are All Looking For,” “Photographic Kinships & (Anti-)Imperial Intimacies in Contemporary Vietnamese American Cultural Productions,” and “Yuri Kochiyama as Spatial Artist: Quotidian Aesthetics & AfroAsian Solidarities” 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”