English Department Annual Prize Winners, 2013-2014 - 5. 21. 14
The Department of English is thrilled to announce
this year’s group of prize recipients.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Edward Eager Grant for Continued Studies in Creative Writing
Sorrel Nielsen ’14
MFA, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Le Baron Russell Briggs Grant for Continued Literary Studies
Theo Breen ’14
M.Phil, University of Cambridge
Le Baron Russell Briggs Honors Thesis Prize in English
Rumur Dowling ’14
for his critical thesis, “Romantic Boredom: Discourses of Distraction in Wordsworth and Coleridge”
Le Baron Russell Briggs Traveling Fellowships
Theo Breen ’14
Dre Cardinal ’14
Rumur Dowling ’14
Aisha Down ’14
Mary Hallowell ’14
Elly O’Leary ’14
Amanda Peery ’14
Amanda Rodrigues ’14
Jenn Soong ’14
Lindsey Waters ’14
Susanna Wolk ’14
Boylston Prize for Elocution
Cassandra Euphrat Weston ’14 (Literature)
Matthew Barrieau ’16 (Literature)
Undergraduate Thesis Research Fellowships
Dre Cardinal ’15 (Joan Gray Untermeyer Poetry Fellowship)
Becky Gould ’15
Anna Hagen ’15
Virginia Marshall ’15
Nora Wilkinson ’15
Francis James Child Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Kathryn Roberts, for her tutorial “Gertrude Stein & F. Scott Fitzgerald: Case Studies in American Modernism”
Margaret Rennix, for her tutorial “Austen and Woolf”
Robert Kiely Prize for Outstanding Junior Essay
Nora Wilkinson ’15, for her essay, “Flappers for Philosophers: New Modes of Living and Writing in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Early Fiction”
Rachel Gibian ’15, for her essay, “‘Aren’t we more expressive thus?': Narrating Co-Experience in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”
Creative Prizes
Academy of American Poets Prize
Amanda Peery ’14
Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize
Avia Tadmor ’14 (Psychology)
Jenn Soong ’14
Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize
Amanda Peery ’14
Roger Conant Hatch Prizes For Lyric Poetry
Zoe Hitzig ’15 (Mathematics, Philosophy)
Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize
Poetry
Zoe Hitzig ’15 (Mathematics, Philosophy)
Ben Blumstein ’15
Miles Hewitt ’17
Daniel Schwartz ’16
Lauren Fields ’14 (Psychology)
Devi Lockwood ’14 (Folklore & Mythology)
Dre Cardinal ’14
Fiction
Rebecca Handlin ’14
Christopher Alessandrini ’15
Anna Hagen ’15
Sorrel Nielsen ’14
Ethan Loewi ’15
Rumur Dowling ’14
Cyrilly Abels Prize
Wanjiku Mungai ’14
Keerthi Reddy ’14 (Economics)
Charles Edmund Horman Prize
Matt Krane ’15, poetry
Jane Hinsenkamp ’15 (Social Studies), fiction
Harvard Monthly Prize
Christopher Alessandrini ’15
Ryan MacLennan ’14 (Social Studies)
Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Award
Aisha Down ’14
Lee Patrick Award in Drama
Madeline Bersin ’14 (History & Literature)
Lily Glimcher ’14 (Psychology)
Thomas Wood Award in Journalism
Gregory Kristof ’15 (Philosophy)
Critical Prizes
Helen Choate Bell Prize (Essay)
Elizabeth Phillips
Jennifer Soong ’14
Winthrop Sargent Prize
Lanier Walker ’14
Boston Ruskin Prize
Nathan Hilgartner ’14 (Literature)
William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize
Matthew Franks
Bowdoin Prize in the English Language
Rumur Dowling ’14
Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the English Language
Stephen Tardif