Prize Winners 2008-2009
The English department would like to congratulate this year's prize winners:
POETRY
Academy of American Poets Prize: 2008
Erica Levy, Grad 4
James A. Veech Prize for Imaginative Writing:
Erica Levy, Grad 4
Gabriel Winslow-Yost, BK ‘08
ShawnaKim Blake Lowey-Ball, Grad 1
Gordon Barber Memorial Prize:
Rebecca Dinerstein, BK ‘09
Katy Waldman, SY ‘10
Tyler Theofilos, SM ‘08
Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize:
Alexandra Schwartz, SY ‘09
Jordan Jacks, SY ‘09
Jesse Schotter, Grad 3
J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize: Poetry component:
Christine Kwon, ES ‘11
Alice Hodgkins, JE ‘11
FICTION
The Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction:
Tae-Yeoun Keum, ES ‘08, for "E is the First Letter"
Stephanie Richards, SY ‘10, for "A Thanksgiving Story"
Justin Ira Stone, DC ‘09, for "A Bright Light for Death"
Sara Elizabeth Schneider, MC ‘08, for "Monstrosities"
Benjamin Aaron Lasman, BK ‘10, for "The Society of Disappearing Alcoholics"
Naima Aisha Coster, TD ‘08, for "Monroe Heights" & "This Living Hand"
Eleanor Liu, BK ‘08, for “After the Fells"
Alice Lucile Baumgartner, BK ‘10, for "The Laundress"
Angelica Grace Baker, DC ‘10, for "Something You Aren't Telling Me"
Steven John Kochevar, PC ‘09, for "Eureka"
Brendan Eddings Dill, MC ‘10, for "Death, Subjectivity, Solitude"
J. Edward Meeker Freshman English Prize: Fiction component:
Robert Cory, CC ‘11, for "Puppets”
JOURNALISM AND NON-FICTION
The Henry P. Wright Prize for a Descriptive Article:
Matthew Kozlark, SY ‘08, for "Salsified"
Alexander Borinsky, SY ‘08, for "Look in the Mirror, Sweetheart, and Wipe Away Your Tears, We're All Little Gods, and Your Makeup is Running"
Tae-Yeoun Keum, ES ‘08, for "Livelihood"
Alex Hemmer, MC ‘08, for "National Immigration Politics take a Local Toll"
Catherine Killingsworth, DC ‘08, for "A Southern Virgin with Curiosity"
The John Hersey Prize in Journalism:
Ji Guo, TD ‘09
Michael Brinbaum, BR ‘08
Sarah Raymond, ES ‘08
Alexandra Suich, BK ‘08
ESSAY PRIZES FOR FRESHMEN
Winston Trowbridge Townsend Prize in Freshman Composition:
[Freshmen in English 114]
Louisa Xu, SY ‘11, for “Economic Xenophobia and Its Impact on Globalization”
Samantha Ellner, CC ‘11, for “Skulls, Bikes, and Bald Eagles: How the Resistance of the Hyper-Patriotic One-Percent Motorcycle Clubs Has Been Undermined by Very 'American' Ideals”
Jakob Dorof, ES ‘11, for “Blurring Lines and Breaking Barriers: Girl Talk and the New Traditions of Plunderphonics”
Ilan Szekely, BK ‘11, for “Software Piracy in China: The Other Side of the Story”
The Bloch Essay Prize:
[More freshmen in English 114]
Sergio Francis Mellejor Zenisek, BK ‘11, for “Left Behind: Urban Minorities and the NCLB”
William Gangware, ES ‘11, for “Can Privatization and School Choice Solve the Inadequacies of Public Schools?”
Mansur Tokmouline, MC ‘11, “Neo Vladimirovich Putin”
McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Freshman Composition:
[Freshmen in English 120]
Sarah Nutman, TC ‘11, for "Choosing Terms"
Leah Hanako Itagaki, TC ‘11, for "What Has Happened to Green?"
Victoria Charette, TD ‘11, for "Palindromes"
Natasha Slonim Vitek, DC ‘11, for "The Bear-Dog Kennel"
J. Edward Meeker Prizes in English
[More freshmen in 120]
Amy Yue, SM ‘11, for "The Mountain Goddess"
Emma Rachel Sokoloff-Rubin, TD ‘11, for "Drumbeats after Gunshots: Transforming Life in a Brazilian Shantytown through Music"
[Freshmen in 125]
Robert Cory Finley, CC ‘11, for “Creation, Rivals to God, and the Dilemma of Authorship in Paradise Lost”
Andrew Saviano, PC ‘11, for “If Ye Be Found Obedient. . . .”
Kristopher Driggers, TD ‘11, for "Animal Tranquility and Decay" as a Governing Principle in Wordsworth's Protest Poetry”
[Freshmen in English 127]
Riley Scripps Ford, SY ‘11, for "Sentimental Killing in Melville's Moby Dick"
Robert Klipper, BK ‘11, for “Beloved's Beloved: The Siren of Collective Memory"
David Albert Colognori, PC ‘11, for "Coupling as a Device to Showcase Decay of the Mind in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'"
[Freshmen in 129, DS]
Margaret Ann Slattery, PC ‘11, for "White on White"
Dylan Morris, BK ‘11, for "Rational Catharsis and Visceral Grief: Tragic Conclusions in Antigone & Medea"
Max Campbell Eden, MC ‘11, for "Lucky"
Emma Larson, ES ‘11, for "Seeming: Sense and Sensibility in Hamlet's Portraits”
PRIZES FOR SOPHOMORES
John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English:
Emily Waldman, PC ‘10, for “Dreams of Power: Self authorization through suffering in the Salve Deus” and “Through the object-glass: Resolving Webs in Middlemarch”
James Jiang, JE ‘10, for “Swift and Gay’s Satirical Perspectives on London”
Andrew Rejan, BC ‘10, for “Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the Pre-Literate Ideal”
Charles Wyllys Betts Prize in Composition
Rachel Caplan, CC ‘10, for on Nabokov (A Bright Mask)
PRIZES FOR JUNIORS
John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English
Adam Gardner, TD ‘09, for “An Erotics of Reading: Call Me by Your Name and the Subjectivity of Loss”
Steven Kochevar, PC ‘09, for “He Killed Them with His Bear Hands”
Samuel Ayres, MC ‘09, for “The Prophet Doth Protest Too Much”
Kate Elizabeth Monaghan, SM ‘09, for “Artist, King, and Slave in Robert Browning’s ‘Cleon’”
Carina del Valle Schorske, PC ‘09, for “Losing Face, Facing Loss: Complicit Consciousness in Freud’s Katharina”
Hannah Shearer, CC ‘09, for “Apprehending Madness: Shakespeare’s Ophelia in Painting and Cinema”
AMERICANA
Richard Schoenberg Prize in American Literature
Alexandra Schwartz, SY ‘09, for "The Myth of Courtly Love: Anse's Masochism and Addie's Sadism in As I Lay Dying"
Presca Eun Jee Ahn, BR ‘09, for "Henry James and the American Aristocracy"
David McClure, MC ‘09, for "The Inescapability of Suicide in For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature
Robert Quigley, SY ‘09, for "The Cord Made Flesh: The Freeing of the Ficelle in The American and The Ambassadors"
SENIORS
Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English:
Gabriel Winslow-Yost for distinguished work in the major
Sholom and Marcia Herson Scholarship, for Outstanding Work in English by Students Intending to Do Graduate Work
Gabriel Winslow-Yost, BK ’08, for outstanding work in the major and for the senior essay, “Questions of Personality in the Work of Marianne Moore and Kenneth Koch”
Heather Freeman, ES ’08, for general excellence in the major and for the essay “The Role of Camden Fairbrother in Middlemarch” and for excellence in the major
Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Senior Essay
Eleanor Liu, BK ‘08, for general excellence in the major and for the essay “Type and Illusion in Roderick Hudson and The Ambassadors”
Margaret Kearney, JE ‘08, for general excellence in the major and for the essay
“Secrets from Each Other; Marilynne Robinson and the Problem of Other Minds”
Courtney Massie, JE ‘08, for the senior essay "’This isle is full of noises’: The Songs of Shakespeare's Tempest”
Lloyd Mifflin Prize for Outstanding Work in English:
David Pratt Robson, TC ‘08, for “Boston Reallys and Paris Possibilities” and for “Robert Browning’s Sweets of Sin”
Jonathan Dach, JE ‘08, for “The Parable of the Rich Man as Lazarus”
Aliza Shvarts, DC ‘08, for “F” [Failure in Victorian Poetry] and for excellence in the major
Edmund Hirschfeld, PC ‘08, for excellence in the major
Neal Ubriani, SY ‘08, for excellence in the major
John Hubbard Curtis Prize
Catherine Killingsworth, DC ‘08, for her writing project, “A Southern Virgin with Curiosity”
Allison Battey, CC ‘08, for her writing project, “Ups and Downs,” and excellence in the major
Katherine Booth, BR ‘08, for “Hairy Men in the Margins” and excellence in the major
