Graduate Program
Prizes
Prizes for Graduate Students |
List of Prize Winners |
The Noah Webster Essay Prize: The Noah Webster Prize is awarded annually to a graduate student for an essay on some aspect of the English Language. Since we do not regularly offer a graduate seminar in the History of the Language, we have traditionally been very liberal in our judgment of what constitutes an aspect of that subject. An essay that touches in any way on the English language of any period is eligible for submission. To be considered, please submit two anonymous copies of your essay to Erica Sayers in 106 LC no later than noon on Monday, May 31, 2010. Please also submit an additional, separate copy of your title page that includes your name and email address.
The Elizabethan Club Essay Prize: The Elizabethan Club gives an annual prize, administered by the Department of English, for an essay by a graduate student on Renaissance or Restoration Drama. The student need not necessarily be in English; he or she might be in Comparative Literature, or the Program in Renaissance Studies. To be considered, please submit two anonymous copies of your essay to Erica Sayers in 106 LC no later than noon on Monday, May 31, 2010. Please also submit an additional, separate copy of your title page that includes your name and email address.
The Veech Essay Prizes: The Prizes Committee has been authorized to hold three separate competitions for James A. Veech prizes in literary criticism. One competition is open to all graduate students in our department who have taken course work last year in which they produced essays of which they are especially proud. Entries may be in any post-Renaissance field of literature, a restriction meant to exclude essays previously considered--or that could have been previously considered--for the Webster or Elizabethan Club essay competitions. Entries may certainly be revised from the form in which they were first submitted, but the prize of $1,000 will be awarded without consideration of instructor's comments. One entry per student.
A second competition is open to all graduate students in our department, and this is for essays that have been accepted for publication or have actually been published. Submissions for this prize, also $1,000, should likewise be made anonymous.
Essays should be submitted to Mrs. Sayers in triplicate by 4:00 pm on Monday, September 21, 2009. These three clean copies (i.e., without instructor's comments) should bear only the title of the essay. A separate copy of the title page, which Mrs. Sayers will hold on file to decode, should include your name and email address.
A third competition is a dissertation prize to be awarded by the Director of Graduate Studies in consultation with the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Poetry Prizes: All registered students, graduate or undergraduate, may compete for the Academy of American Poets prize (for the best poem or group of poems, unpublished or published in a university magazine), the Cook prize (for the best unpublished poem or group of poems), and the Gordon Barber Memorial prize for poetry. In addition, the Prizes Committee may award all or some of the "James Veech Prize for imaginative writing" to poetry contestants. Students may submit up to six pages of poetry. If your poems are many but short it is better to select four to five pages of your best. Submit poetry entries in duplicate. The deadline is in April. For further information, visit the English department's Undergraduate Prizes page.
2008-2009 Prize Winners
CONGRATULATIONS to the following students who have won departmental and university prizes this year for their excellent work as teachers, poets and literary critics!
Michaela Bronstein: James A. Veech Prize for literary criticism
David Gorin: James A. Veech Prize for poetry for "Minotaur"
Christopher Grobe: James A. Veech Prize for literary criticism
Michael Komorowski: Elizabethan Club Prize for criticism on a Renaissance topic for his essay, "Politic History, Impolitic Laws: Tacitism and the Common Law Mind in Measure for Measure"
Erica Levy: Academy of American Poets Prize for "Stan Reid"
Erica Levy: James A. Veech Prize for poetry for "Stan Reid"
Ross Macdonald: Prize Teaching Fellowship for 2009-2010
Hilary Menges: Elizabethan Club Prize for criticism on a Renaissance topic for her essay, "Monuments, Books, and Readers in Milton's Early Poetry and Prose"
Erica Miao: Noah Webster Prize for work in the history of the language for her essay, "Sociolinguistic Verisimilitude? Do-support in Shakespeare's Early Modern English"
Jesse Schotter: Noah Webster Prize for work in the history of the language for his essay, "'Verbivocovisuals': James Joyce and the Problem of Babel"
Justin Sider: Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for poetry for"Sebastian van Stork"
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: Prize Teaching Fellowhip for 2009-2010
