Every year, Rutgers English gives out awards for everything from writing to overall academic excellence. Many prizes have been created by Friends, to commemorate their experience here or to honor the memory of someone connected with Rutgers English. Award descriptions are available on the Department website, and we will tell the story behind a few of them with each newsletter. Congratulations to all of the winners!
Undergraduate Prizes
The Jordan Lee Flyer Honors Award
Christiane Gannon, for “God’s Orphans: Memory as Literary Form and Salvation from Spiritual Crisis, from Wordsworth to George Eliot and Evelyn Waugh”
The Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing
Rachel Rosenberg, for “Using Mrs. Dalloway”;
Roger Taylor, for “Is It a Coincidence that Ephemeral and Feminine Sound Similar?”
The Toni Cade Bambara Prize
Imani Owens, for “Mother to Daughter: An Essential Link”
The Edna N. Herzberg Prize in Poetry
Kathryn Coto
The Julia Carlie Prize in Poetry
Teresa Schartel
The Jamima Dingus Qualls Prize
Kellie M. Walsh, for “ ‘Making a poet out of a man’: The Poet’s Heart in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘A Musical Instrument’”
The Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Erika Vallani
The Evelyn Hamilton Award in Creative Writing
Gina Wise, for fiction; Jason Mitchell, for poetry; Brent Martone, for poetry
The Irving D. Blum Prize
Stacey Pontoriero, for “The Unseen Hypocrisy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern”
The James Suydam Prize in English Composition
Subah Dayal, for “Perpetual Emergency”
The G. Stuart Demarest Memorial Award
Alyssa Capo; Kathleen Willoughby
The Dr. Jaroslav M. Burian and Grayce Susan Burian Award in English
Kate Sell (2004); Ronah Sadan (2005)
Other English Undergraduate Prizes - The Ernest W. Thomas Memorial Prize for Interpretation of Shakespearean Works; The John and Catherine Kinsella Prize
Graduate Student Prizes
The Catherine Moynahan Prize
Nicole Smith, “The Parson’s Predilection for Pleasure”
The Catherine Musello Cantalupo Prize
Kristin Girtin, “The Possibilities of Selective Reading: Conduct and Meditation in Eliza Heywood’s The Female Spectator”
The Marius Bewley Prize
Devin Griffiths, “The Defense of Gwendolyn: Brooks and the Ballad Revival”
The Spencer L. Eddy Prize
Martin Ponce, “Langston Hughes’s Queer Blues”
Related Links:
The Dr. Jaroslav M. Burian and Grayce Susan Burian Award in English
The Enid Dame Poetry Prize
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