#  2016-17 Prize Recipients 

 





July 18, 2017

 

 

 The Department of English is thrilled to announce this year’s prize recipients!

##  Critical Prizes

###  Boston Ruskin Prize

 **1st Place:** Michael Allen  
for “Trauma Theory and the Problem of Interpretation: Archeological Reconstruction in Sigmund Freud and W.G. Sebald”

 **2nd Place:** Carly Yingst

 for “‘Like looking into a bowl of quicksilver shaken': Repetition and Expansion in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’ and ‘Binsey Poplars'”

###  Helen Choate Bell Prize (Essay)

 Evander Price  
for “Fact and Fiction: How Fitzgerald Still Haunts Flushing”

###  Winthrop Sargent Prize

 Allegra Caldera, ’17  
for “Extemporal Gods of Rhyme? *Commedia dell’Arte in Love’s Labour’s Lost*”

###  William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize

 “Accumulation & Anthology: The Spirit of Book Collecting”

###  Boylston Prize for Elocution

 **1st Place:** Chloe Brooks, ’19

 **2nd Place:** Lucas Giveen ’18

##  Dissertation Prizes

###  Helen Choate Bell Dissertation Prize

 Adam Scheffler  
for his dissertation “‘My Life is Only One Life': Turning to Other People in American Lyric Poetry After New Criticism”

###  Howard Mumford Jones Prize

 Stephen Tardif

 for his dissertation “The Practice of Form: Arts of Life in Victorian Literature”

##  Creative Prizes

###  Academy of American Poets Prize

 Josh Ascherman, ’17

###  Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize

 Joanne Koong, ’17

###  Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize

 Josh Ascherman, ’17  
for “Lapis Lazuli”

###  Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry

 Emeline Atwood, ’18  
for “Cab Driver”

###  Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize

 **Poetry:**  
1\. Nica Franklin, ’18  
2\. Sarah Toomey, ’19  
3\. Daniella M. Muhleisen, ’19

 **Fiction:**  
1\. “A Night Out,” by Samantha Neville, ’19  
2\. “The Night of Power,” by Aisha Bhoori, ’18  
3\. “The Wanderer,” by Emeline Atwood, ’18

###  Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize

 **1st Place:** Mia Gussen, ’17  
for “Coral”

 **2nd Place:** Skylar-Bree Tayki, ’20  
for “Be Nice”

###  Charles Edmund Horman Prize

 **Poetry:** George Qiao, ’18  
**Fiction:** Michelle Raji, ’18

###  Harvard Monthy Prize

 Aisha Bhoori, ’18  
Sean Satterthwaite, ’17

###  Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Award

 Matthew Vegari, ’17  
for “Don’t Go To Strangers”



 

 

 



 

 

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