HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to the English Department Prize winners for 2020-2021!
Drama Prize
Marty Chandler ‘21 - Marina Keegan Prize for Excellence in Playwriting for “Schema” and “A Butterfly in a Barbershop”
Kevin Tang ‘21 - Marina Keegan Prize for Excellence in Playwriting for “Retracing Echoes” and “Summer Project Proposal”
Fiction Prizes
Rachel Calcott ‘22 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for “Tobacco Barns”
Sylvan Lebrun ‘24 - J. Edward Meeker First Year Prize for “Misty Eyed”
Sara Luzuriaga ‘21 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for “Fredy fromt the Bar”
Jever Mariwala ‘21 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for “The Transformation”
Austin Todd ‘23 - Elmore A. Willets Prize for “The Sea Continued”
Nonfiction Prizes
Ko Lyn Cheang ’21 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Stories from the Fringe”
Jesse Goodman ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Sophomore and Junior Essays for ”My Bed is His”
Caroleine James ’22 - “Memoirs of a Future World-Famous Female Jazz Saxophonist”
Sammy Landino ’21 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Soul Brothers”
Matt Nadel ’21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for a longer work of nonfiction for “Paraguay v. Virginia, or the Execution of Angel Francisco”
Chloe Papai ’23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Sophomore and Junior Essays for “The Food of History”
Talia Soglin ’21 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “What’s in a Name?”
Arya Sundaram ’21 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Exposing The Failures of the State and Industry: A Selection of Articles on Immigration, Criminal Justice, and Discrimination“
Sammy Westfall ‘21 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Concepcion Body of Work” and John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a longer work of nonfiction for “Where They Lay”
Daniel Yadin ’21 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a longer work of nonfiction for “Sea of Wheat”
Poetry Prizes
William An ’24 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Set in Stagnation”
Jared Brunner ‘22 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Popcorn Flicks and Blackthorns” and other poems
Vaughn Goehrig ‘23 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Five Poems”
Lucy Silbaugh ’21 - Academy of American Poets and Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Twin” and other poems
First Year Prizes
Carmel Alshaibi ’24 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Filling the Void: A Discourse on Displaced Palestinian Autobiography”
Marcos Britsch ’24 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “The Resilience of Indigenous Connection with Land in the Face of Spanish Catholicism”
Lucy Gilchrist ’24 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “’As Suns – dissolve a star –‘: Reading the Individual into Focus”
Adriana Golden ‘24 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for excellence in English composition for “Petrarch’s Self-Determination through the Rime Sparse”
Hayley He ‘24 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Crustaceans”
Mark Hodges ’24 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for excellence in English composition for “A Poetics of Preservation”
John Nash ’24 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for ”Plate 198: The Brown Headed Worm Eating Warbler”
John Nguyen ’24 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for ”You Don’t Understand Me: A Portrait of My Father”
Stephanie Owusu ’24 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Contextualizing Kidz Bop: The Mirage of a Pop Music Utopia”
Roaa Shaheen ‘24 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “More than Medicine: Analyzing the Detrimental Effects of English as the Language of Egyptian Medical Education”
Lukas Trelease ’25 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Desiring Increase: Progeny and Proliferation in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
Anna Xu ’24 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Getting Out of Things Pre-Pandemic Vs Pandemic”
Lillian Zhou ’24 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for excellence in English composition for “The Great Tragic Ending of Hamlet”
Sophomore Prizes
Mathis Bitton ‘23 - C. Wyllys Betts Prize and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Modernity and its Discontents: Radical Freedom in Lafcadio’s Adventures”
Aaron Magloire ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “’Define Life’: Terrance Hayes, Blackness, and the Limits of the Sonnet”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Oona Holahan ’21 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for the “best essay some American poet or some phase of American poetry” for “’The Mother’s Face’: The Body Against Elegy in Robert Lowell’s ‘Sailing Home from Rapallo’”
Jever Mariwala ’21 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for the “best essay some American poet or some phase of American poetry” for “The Unmappable Rokovoko: A Postcolonial Reading of Herman Melville’s Critical Utopia”
Irene Vazquez ’21 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American literature for “Throat Clearing as Intimacy: Understanding the Digressions of Moby Dick’s ‘Cetology’ in a Time of COVID”
Junior Prizes
Sarah Li ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “‘You Say that I am a King’: Messianic Identity in the Trial Narrative”
Yuka Saji ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “’Ireland sober is Ireland free’: Drinking and Temperance in Ulysses”
Senior Prizes
Rebecca Amonor ’21 - 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”
Emma Brodey ‘21 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English
Darcy Chanin ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “From Sights to Insights: The Golden Bowl as James’s ‘Language Turn’”
Kat Corfman ‘21 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English
Kiran Damodaran ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “Verbing the Archive: An Intimate, Ongoing, and Collective Form of Creation”
Laura Glesby ‘21 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in English courses and in a senior essay for “House Keeping: Claims to Property and Architecture in Toni Morrison’s Ohio Novels”
Oona Holahan ‘21 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English and Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the best senior essay in English for “Topographies of Intimate Being: House and Home with Elizabeth Bishop”
Mpho Molefe ‘21 - 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”
Maya Pasic ‘22 - Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an outstanding senior essay in English for “’I lived and breathed and learnt by rote’: Literary Accounts of Order and Reading in the Colonial Girls’ School”
Logan Rivers ‘21 - Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Prize awarded in the fall to a senior for distinguished excellence in English composition and the study of English literature
Lucy Silbaugh ’21 - 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 Medical Imagination(s) in Ulysses”
Daniel Yadin ‘21 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English