Prizes & Awards 2011
Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize
Awarded for the best poem by an undergraduate. Competition is not open to those who have already won the prize, nor may the poem have been printed previously.
- Sabine Jean, '11 "Anything but Love"
Ethel Olin Corbin Prize
Awarded for the best original poem (preferably blank verse, sonnet or ballad) or informal essay by an undergraduate.
- Esther Mobley, '11 "Paradise"
Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize
Awarded for the best poem submitted by a first-year or sophomore.
- Anna Olkovsky, '14 "Chill Black Coffee Drinker"
Rosemary Thomas Poetry Prize
Awarded for the best poem or group of poems.
- Lauren Egbert, '11 "Oppenheimer at the Bathtub" and five other poems
- Hayley Raetz, '12 "Rattlesnake" and five other poems
Elizabeth Drew Fiction Prize
Awarded for the best fiction written by an undergraduate.
- Vanessa Brewster, '12 "Speed Bumps"
- Emily Atkinson, "The Wrong Train"
- Alison Young, '13 "The Thumb Trap War"
- Alexandra von Mering, '14 "Poems"
Elizabeth Drew Essay Prize
Awarded for the best classroom essay on a literary subject submitted by an undergraduate to a class taught by a member of the English department.
- Madeline Zehnder, '13 "Writing Towards Freedom in Frederick Douglass's Narrative"
- Esther Mobley, '11 "To Load and Bless: Keats's 'To Autumn' and the Odes of 1819"
- Esther Mobley, '11 "Malbecco in The Fairie Queene"
- Kimberly Probolus, '11 "Memory and Servitude in The Remains of Day"
Elizabeth Drew Memorial Prizes
Awarded for (a) the best honors thesis in English, and (b) the best essay on a literary subject submitted by a first-year
- (a) Sarah Greene, '11 “Shapin’ Words – Toomer, Faulkner, Eliot & Modernist Poetics”
Eleanor Cederstrom Prize
Awarded for the best poem by an undergraduate, written in a traditional verse form.
- Jane Kennedy, '13 "In Scripture"
Helen Kate Furness Prize
Awarded for the best essay on a Shakespearean theme prepared in courses or seminars and recommended by the instructors of such courses or seminars. Honors theses are not eligible.
- Katherine Gespass, '11 "Imprisoning Justice in Measure for Measure"
- Megan Kearney, '11 "Plutarch's Defeated vs. Shakespeare's Triumphant Cleopatra"
- Esther Mobley, '11 "Duty and Pleasure in Antony and Cleopatra"
James T. and Ellen M. Hatfield Memorial Prize
Awarded to a senior majoring in English for the best short story.
- Devon Bohm, '11 "GRIEF"
Mrs. Montagu Prize
Awarded for the best essay on a literary subject concerning women.
- Gwen Gethner, '11 "The Lunatic Mrs. Rochester"
- Clarissa Grace Chang, '11 "Chaucer through the Wife of Bath: Balancing for Equality"
Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize
Awarded for excellence in writing fiction and nonfiction prose.
- Allison Pilatsky, '12 "A History of Hunger"
- Julie Colatrella '12 "Liquid Ignorance"
- Joanna Johnson '12 "Coffeehouse Culture"
- Alida Dean '12 "Scrabble"
Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Awarded for the best poem or group of poems by an undergraduate.
- Jane Kennedy, '13 "Villanelle for Sisyphus"
Emogene Mahoney Memorial Prize
- Mary Jessica Lawrence, '14 "Wretchedness: Responsibility and Regret in Kurosawa's Ran"
- Katherine Andropoulos, '14 "The Art of Counterpoint in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway"
Norma M. Leas Memorial Prize
Awarded to a graduating English major for excellence in written English.
- Esther Mobley '11
- Sarah Greene '11
Clara French Memorial Prize
Awarded to a graduating English major with the highest GPA
- Sarah Jean Wisner '11
Vernon Harward Prize
Awarded for the best student scholar of Chaucer.
- Juliana Jackson '11
- Jessica McQuillan '12
Mary Augusta Jordan Prize
Awarded for the most original work in prose or verse by a senior
- Eleanor Lane, '11 "Veteran Denied Test Has Cancer"
Elizabeth Wanning Harries Prize
Awarded for the best essay by an Ada Comstock Scholar
- Emily Cook '11 AC
