Department Announces Awards For the 2015-16 Academic Year

The Department of English is pleased to announce the following awards for the Fall 2015-Spring 2016 academic year:

Stanley E. Fish Award for Outstanding Work in British Literature
Matthew T. King, “The Centrality of Courtship: Wooing Katherine and the Meaning of Henry V”

Barbara Herrnstein Smith Award for Outstanding Work in Literary Theory
Shae Van Wagoner, “Clean Violence and Tainted Life: Immunization and the Birth of the Infected Community”

Louis J. Budd Award for Outstanding Work in American Literature
Michaela Unger, “Words Amongst Wilderness, Letters Amongst Leaves”

Award for Most Original Honors Thesis
Katherine Coric, “Politics and Poetics of the Novel: Using Domesticity to Create the Nation”
JP Lucaci, “Modern Poetry: A Single Genre”

Critical Essay Prize
Christopher J. Lee, “Experience over Doctrine: Women as Agents for Rewriting Medieval Social Codes in Chaucer’s ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’”

Honorable Mention (alphabetical):
Caroline Fernelius, “Boys Pursuing Summer Butterflies: The Impossibility of Redemption for Shakespeare’s Coriolanus” 
Anna Mukamal, “A Darwinian Perspective of the Spirit of the Land in Melville’s Encantadas”
Catherine Ward, “A Heaven of Hell, A Hell of Heaven: Eve as a Combination of Seeming”

Bascom Headen Palmer Literary Prize
Jacqueline Chipkin, “The Anamorphic ‘Figure in the Carpet’: James, Kafka, Morrison and Mitchell”