Prizes & Awards 2013
Poetry
Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Awarded for the best poem or group of poems by an undergraduate.
- Jaclyn Majewski '13, "Why I write and other poems"
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.
- Janan Scott '13, "dreaming ancestral"
Ethel Olin Corbin Prize
Awarded for the best original poem (preferably blank verse, sonnet or ballad) or informal essay by an undergraduate.
- Margaret Draft '13," Tent"
Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize
Awarded for the best poem submitted by a first-year or sophomore.
- Kyle Kaplan '15, "To cold sheets"
Rosemary Thomas Poetry Prize
Awarded for the best poem or group of poems.
- Erin Kelly '13, "Natural Voice"
Eleanor Cederstrom Prize
Awarded for the best poem by an undergraduate, written in a traditional verse form.
- Jane Kennedy '13, "When Did You Start"
Fiction
Elizabeth Drew Fiction Prize
Awarded for the best fiction written by an undergraduate.
- Erin Kelly AC'13, "Slow Whistle Drive-by" & "The In-Between"
Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize
Awarded for excellence in writing fiction prose.
- Zoe gioja '13, "The Boat Ride & A Night of it"
- Danielle Chichester '13, "November Hotel"
James T. and Ellen M. Hatfield Memorial Prize
Awarded to a senior majoring in English for the best short story.
- Veronica Adler '13, "Fracture"
Non-Fiction
Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize
Awarded for excellence in writing nonfiction prose.
- Ellena Baum '14, "Hous"
- Amber Rounds '14J, "Apocalypse in Alphabet City"
- Emma Phipps '14, "That Man"
Norma M. Leas Memorial Prize
Awarded to a graduating English major for excellence in written English.
- Grace Booth '13, "Marty the Bait Man Tells the History Channel to Scram"
Critical Prose
Emogene Mahoney Memorial Prize
Awarded for the best essay on a literary subject written by a first-year student
- Madeleine Wyda '16, "The Nurture of Their Beasts"
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.
- Kate Andropoulis '14, " 'What is the Truth of Friday?': Language, Gender, and Power in J.M. Coetzee's Foe"
- Kate Andropoulis '14, " 'Everything Gets Mixed up and Absorbed': Contradictions in Multiculturalism in Merchant Ivory's Heat and Dust"
Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu Prize
Awarded for the best essay on a literary subject concerning women.
- Veronica Adler '13, " 'Beyond the Monster': Lady Macbeth and the Images of Female Monstrosity in Shakespeare's Macbeth"
Elizabeth Drew Memorial Prizes
Awarded for the best honors thesis in English
- Madeline Zehnder '13, "Telling, Retelling and Not Telling: Narrating the Black Atlantic"
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.
- Emily Atkinson '13, "A Merry War: Representations of Gender in MAAN and TN"
- Jessica Liebling '13," The World-Making of A & C"
Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize
Awarded for excellence in writing critical essays
- Madeline Zehnder '13," Performing Emotion, Obstucting Human Connection: The Urban Concert Hall in Maggie"
- Tess Grogan '14, "Things that are Unpleasant to See: Approaching the Oppositional Gaze in My Year of Meats"
- Aqdas Aftab '14, "Redefining the Diasporic 'Angel in the House'"
Mary Augusta Jordan Prize
Awarded for the most original work in prose or verse by a senior.
- Erica Zhang '13, "The Reality of Bottoms' Dream"
Department Prizes
Clara French Memorial Prize
Awarded to a graduating English major who has advanced further in the study of English language and literature.
- Jena Andres '13
- Emily Atkinson '13
- Margaret Barthel '13
- Madeline Zehnder '13
Vernon Harward Prize
Awarded for the best student scholar of Chaucer.
- Margaret Barthel '13
- Tess Grogan '13
- Madeline Zehnder '13
Elizabeth Wanning Harries Prize
Awarded to a graduating Ada Comstock scholar who has shown academic distinction in the study of literature in any language.
- Susanna Apgar AC'13J, Afro-American Studies
- Vanessa Brewster AC'13J, Spanish & Portuguese
