Harry Glick Prize in Poetry
Alexandra Leston, for a group of poems: “10 Mile Square,” “Boca del Cerro,” “Reunion,” “Poem With an Old Woman In It,” “Late Fall,” and “14 August”
James E. Tobin Prize for an Essay on Poetry
Evelyn Michalos, for “Borderland Divisions and Visions in the Poetry of Suji Kwok Kim and Gloria Anzaldúa”
The Faculty Prize for an Essay on Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Children’s Literature
Kaitlyn D. Vosper, for “Subversion of the Heteronormative and Fear of Feminine Sexuality in Peter and Wendy”
Zolot Prize in Poetry
Marines Gonzalez DeJesus, for a group of poems: “I Caught My Brother in the Act of Trying,” “Desde El Cielo Caen Las Frutas de Mujer,” “How to Show Someone You Love the Ways You Won’t Leave Them,” “My Mother Shouts Mujer,” “Flaco, we work today?” and “Mami, here comes your little boy”
Silverstein-Peiser Award in Drama
Abigail Ramharack, for a one-act play: Roop’s Anatomy
The Leo Statsky Prize for Autobiographical Work on Encounters with American Life
Michelle Chung, for “Disorientation and the Heterotopic Experience”
David B. Feinberg Prize for an Essay on Gender and Sexuality
Summer Medina, for “Everybody Lives: An Exploration of Queer Sidekicks and the Aesthtics of Hope”
The Edmund L. Epstein Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Essay on Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature
Alexandra Leston, for “The Personal-as-Politic in Eavan Boland’s ‘The Pomegranate’”
Neal Feld Memorial Prize in Fiction
Martin White, for a story: “Dreams Money Can Buy”
Composition Prize for Work Done in English 95, English 110 or 110H
Julian Francisco, for “Are You Living in the Real World?” written for Professor Esther Lin
Yuval Sucov, for “The Men’s Locker Room,” written for Professor Linda Farhood-Karasava
The Faculty Prize for an Essay on Medieval or Early Modern British Literature
Paul Park, for “Virtus in Henry V”
The English Alumni Prize for an Essay on Asian American Literature
Sooji Lee, for “The Fractured Identities of Japanese Americans Post-Internment”
Silverstein-Peiser Award in Nonfiction
Willnide Lindor, for “Subjectivity and Transatlantic Discourse: Las Casas’ A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Aphra Behn’s “Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave’”
The Clinton Oliver Prize for Scholarship in Black American Studies
Anna Keller, for “Duke Ellington, His Muses and the Meaning of Jazz”
Silverstein-Peiser Award in Fiction
Laura Lavelle, for a story: “The Slice of a Knife”
The Charles G. Weekes Memorial Scholarship
Marines Gonzalez DeJesus
English Honors
Robert Greenberg Prize for Outstanding Work Done in English Honors
Ayala Schnaidman
Highest Honors in English
Philip Etline, Daria Kaczorowska, Tzipora Nissan, Ayala Schnaidman
High Honors in English
Steve Dourountoudakis, Willnide Lindor, Evelyn Michalos,
Honors in English
Jamila Avalon, Cheyenne Bacchus, Brian Dunlop, Cyan Estevez, Jose Fana, Yeong Hyun Go, Summer Medina, Cassandra Price, Saleema Shazeem
Graduate Studies
The Nancy Comley Prize for an Outstanding Essay Written by an MA or MS. Ed Student
Frances Romano, for “The Matter of the Text: Queerness, Identity, and Proximity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home”
The Giro S. Cestaro III Memorial Scholarship
Rob Gunther
The Irma and Harry Long MFA Scholarship
Marija Perunovic
The Hoyt Jacobs Memorial Poetry Award
Kiyomi Dong
