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”