HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to the English Department Prize winners for 2023-2024!
Drama Prize
Hank Graham ‘24 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for “The Mourning Show” and “The Final Flight of the Passenger Pigeon”
Mikayla Johnson ‘24 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for “SAPPHIRE,” “after jezebel,” and “East of Mercy”
Fiction Prizes
Cal Barton ‘25 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “The Skin Shed”
Charlotte Hughes ‘25 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Winter Mazurka”
Eli Osei ‘26 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “The Earl of Grey”
Eason Rytter ‘27 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for Freshman Fiction for “Exit Pursued by Bear”
Netanel Schwartz ‘25 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for ”The Rabbi Abuhatzera”
Nonfiction Prizes
Mary Ben Apatoff ‘24 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Alchemy and Illusions”
Zachary Groz ‘24 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “A Body of Journalistic Work”
Sophia Li ‘24 - John Hersey Prize for a Longer Work of Nonfiction for “The Body’s Place”
Keenan Miller ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for a longer work of nonfiction for “Commute”
Evita Thadhani ‘24 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Bathrooms”
Poetry Prizes
Maisie Bilston ‘26 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Hurricane” and other poems
Ana Paula Padilla Castellanos ‘25 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Eros” and other poems
Alistair Lam ‘27 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for Freshman Poetry for “In Flight” and other poems
Jean Wang ‘24 - Academy of American Poets for “6 Poems”
First Year Prizes
Maria Andreu Bird ‘27- Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for ”The Wife’s Tale: Weaving, Control, and the Perfect Ending”
Nancy Chen ‘27 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Whispers from a Restaurant”
David Cho ‘27 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Music, The Soundtrack of our Lives”
Niva Cohen ‘27 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “The Wand and Dust of Liz Fredette”
Aurelia Cors ‘27 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Enforcing Equality: An Exploration of the Growth of Women’s Rowing Under Title IX”
Sophia Eno ‘27 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “Beauty and Connection: What Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein Tells Us about Hierarchy in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things”
Alison Lee ‘27 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “OCD Vulnerability within the Model Minority: Analyzing Confucian Philosophy and the Model Minority Myth”
Claire Newman ‘27 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “‘Perplexing Thoughts,’ ‘Grateful Digressions’: Joy and Questioning in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Calista Oetama ‘27 - J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize for “Making Space with Phil Acimovic”
Hailey Talbert ‘27 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for ”Depictions of the Slave Trade in Narrative and Mezotint”
Ashley Wang ‘27 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “‘Waste, Shit, and Excess’: Nail Salons as Unexpected Sites of Queer Intimacies”
Sophomore Prizes
Allie Gruber ‘26 - C. Wyllis Betts Prize for “My long two-pointed ladder”: Tension and Confusion in Robert Frost and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “What Can One Know?”: Conscious and Unconscious Mental Imagery in Middlemarch
Caroline Utermann ‘26 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Why am I so changed?”; A Study of Hysteria in Wuthering Heights and Dracula
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Anne Gross ‘25 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for “the best critical essay upon an American poet” for “The Case of the Missing Epigraph”
Catherine Papanasam Setlur Kausikan ‘25 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for ‘Borne back ceaselessly into the past’: Destructive Nostalgia in The Great Gatsby and The Last
Junior Prizes
Croix Black ’25- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Sentences on the Sea: Realism, Romanticism, and the Tides of Emotion in Yeats and Synge”
Anne Gross ‘25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Junior Essays for ”The Lagartija and Me.”
Oliver Guinan ‘25 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Junior Essays for “Home Means Nevada”
Senior Prizes
William An ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “The Pruning of a Peril / Readership and the Sensibilities of Feeling in Victorian and Contemporary Poetry”
Chidima Anekwe ’24 - Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major
Ashley Duraiswamy ’24- Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English 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”
Adriana Golden ’24- Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Jacob Kaufman-Shalett ’24- Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English for “Shadow-Facts & Snow-Fairies: The Dual Sonnet & Queer Double Consciousness of McKay’s Harlem Shadows”
Rose Kohler ’24- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “And The War Went On: Soldiers, Memory, and Literature of the Great War and Vietnam”
Raja Moreno ’24- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Tellson’s Bank, Time, and Historical Narrative in A Tale of Two Cities”
John Nguyen ’24 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English and Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major
Olivia O’Connor ’24- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Filling in Murakami’s ‘Empty Narrative’: The Living Legacy of Russian Theater in Drive My
Katia Vanlandingham ’24 - Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Best Senior Essay in English for “A Portrait is a Portrait is a Portrait: Woolf, Stein, and the ‘Painterly’ Writer”
Hillary Warolin ’24- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Layers of Meaning: Moby-Dick and Immersive Storyworlds”
Wren Wolterbeek ’24- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Linguistic Acquisition and Exclusion in Frankenstein”
Hanwen Zhang ’24- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears”: Dickens’s Sentimental Dilemma