ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION DISSERTATION FELLOWS |
Paul Benzon
Dissertation: “Spaces, Cuts, Codes: Postwar Technology and the Mediation of Writing”
Director: Richard Dienst
Cornelius Collins
Dissertation: “Uncertain Ends: Contemporary Narratives of Political Decline, Social Failure, and Survival”
Director: John A. McClure
Anannya Dasgupta
Dissertation: “Right Spelling and Rent Bodies:
The Discourse of Magic in Renaissance Drama”
Director: Ann Baynes Coiro
Jennifer Garrison
Dissertation: “Eucharistic Theology in Middle English Devotional Literature”
Director: Larry Scanlon
Miriam Jaffe-Foger
Dissertation: “Cross-Ethnic Mediums and the Rhetoric
of Individuality in American Fiction”
Director: Brent Hayes Edwards
Regina Masiello
Dissertation: “Rooms of Invention: The Prison Poems
of Wyatt, Surrey, and Ralegh”
Director: Ann Baynes Coiro
Piia Mustamaki
Dissertation: “Redefining Political Theater: Masochism and the Problem of Identity”
Director: Elin Diamond
Jacob Nellickal
Dissertation: “Histories of the Visual Image
in Nineteenth Century Literature”
Director: William H. Galperin
Megan Ward
Dissertation: “The Sensing Subject: Sensory Perception
in Victorian Literature and Culture”
Director: Kate Flint
Madhvi Zutshi
Dissertation: “Virtue, Sensibility, and ‘The Man of
Feeling’ in the Eighteenth Century”
Director: Michael McKeon
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOWS |
Sonali Barua
The National Library of India and the Sangeet Research Academy Library
Tyler Bradway
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University
Sonia Di Loreto
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Jennifer Garrison
The British Library
Carrie Hyde
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University
Sarah Kennedy
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Michael Masiello
Department of Latin Letters, The Vatican
Rachel Smith
Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, University of California Humanities Research Institute
Katherine Snead
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Sunny Stalter
John Hay Library, Brown University
Scott Trudell
The British Library
OTHER FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS |
Candice Amich
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2006-2009)
Sarah Balkin
The Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tyler Bradway
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2007-2010)
Riccardo Capoferro
Lane Cooper Fellowship
Ja Yun Choi
Samsung Fellowship
Christopher Crosbie
• Honorable Mention, Catherine Moynahan Prize (for the best
essay on a literary topic)
• Honorable Mention, Spencer L. Eddy Prize (for the best literary essay accepted in a professional journal): "Fixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value," in Shakespeare Quarterly
Vera Eliasova
Spencer L. Eddy Prize (for the best literary essay accepted in a professional journal): "A Cab of Her Own: Immigration and Mobility in Iva Pekarkova's Gimme the Money," in Contemporary Literature
Michael Gavin
Graduate School–New Brunswick Special Study Award
Devin Griffiths
Middlebury College Summer
Immersion Program for
Intermediate French
Patrick Jehle
The Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz
Meghan Lau
Daniel Francis Howard Travel
Fellowship
Carrie Malcolm
Marius Bewley Prize (for the best essay written in coursework)
Jacob Nellickal
Catherine Moynahan Prize (for the best essay on a literary topic)
Beth Perry
Barry V. Qualls Dissertation Fellowship
Debapriya Sarkar
Honorable Mention, Marius Bewley Prize (for the best essay written in coursework)
Erick Sierra
Catherine Musello Cantalupo Prize (for the best essay on literature and religion)
Benjamin Singer
Point Foundation Scholarship
Elliott Souder
Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Writing Program by a Teaching Assistant
Paul Yeoh
Graduate School–New Brunswick
Dissertation Teaching Award
GRADUATE PROGRAM STAFF NEWS |
Eileen Faherty and Cheryl Robinson received this year’s Graduate School–New Brunswick Staff Excellence Award. The faculty and students in the Graduate Program of Literatures in English salute and thank them for their extraordinary commitment to the program—and congratulate them on winning this well-deserved award!
Eileen retired from Rutgers this past spring after twenty-five years of dedicated service to the university. This award thus came at an auspicious time, marking the culmination of decades of professional and personable service. Equally generous dispensing treats as she was with giving advice, Eileen provided consistent and patient assistance to faculty and students alike. Having joined the English department in December 2002, she worked with Myra Jehlen, Meredith L. McGill, and Marianne DeKoven during their tenure as directors of the graduate program. Everyone in Murray Hall will miss Eileen, and we bid her fond adieu and send our best wishes for her retirement. |
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