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2001–2002 English Program Prizes and Awards

Dissertation Prizes * Dissertation-Year Awards * Graduate Center Awards

Dissertation Prizes

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year:
Robert Upchurch
"The Hagiography of Chaste Marriage in Aelfric's 'Lives of Sains'"
Dissertation Director: Professor Gordon Whatley

    The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
    Erin Henrickson
    "Sacred Authorship: Scriptural Models for Early Modern Books"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Barbara Bowen

    The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
    Sara Claire Raymond
    "The Trope of the Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Meena Alexander

    The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
    Mitch Melzer
    "Between Them and the Sky: The Constitutionality of Classic American Literature"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Angus Fletcher

    The David Gordon Prize for the Best Dissertation in 20th Century Studies: Cathy Fagan
    "'The Excitement of an Afternoon Call'--Reframing the Regional and the Modern"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Marc Dolan

    The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
    Victoria Alexander
    "Narrative Telos"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

Dissertation-Year Awards

The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Sharon Lattig
"Lyric Experience: Science and Genre in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
    Greg Erickson
    "Reading in the Dark: Modernism and the Absence of God"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Mary Ann Caws

    The Grace Calder Dissertation Year Award
    Harry Heuser
    "Etherized Victorians: Narrative Drama and the American Radio Play, 1929-1954"
    Dissertation Director: Professor David Richter

    The Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Awards
    Josh Gosciak
    "Empire, Diaspora, and Claude McKay: The Making of a Public Intellectual"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Jane Marcus

Michaelangelo Tata
"Andy Warhol: POMO, Pimp, Pop Tart, Meta-Star"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

    The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
    Robert Kaplan
    "Intimate Geographies: Male Homotextual Space in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Herman Melville"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    Maggie Nelson
    "Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

Graduate Center Awards

Dissertation Year Fellowship
Jennifer Brown
"A Critical Edition of Commentary of MS Douce 114"
Dissertation Director: Professor Michael Sargent

    Milton Brown Dissertation Fellowship
    Christopher Iannini
    "Fatal Revolutions: U.S. Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1714-1852"
    Dissertation Director: Provost William Kelly

    Jewish Foundation for Women Dissertation Fellowship
    Deborah Lutz
    "The Dangerous Lover and the Erotic Unknown: Victorian Byronism and the Mass-Market Romance"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Eve Sedgwick

    Newstead Dissertation Fellowship
    Mark Noonan
    "Reading The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Marc Dolan

    Center for the Humanities Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship
    Amy Leal
    "Negative Capabilities: Keatsean Thresholds from Tennyson to Dryer"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Morris Dickstein

    Conviction Project 2002-2003 Fellowship
    Elizabeth Toohey
    "Contempoirary American Women Writers and the Idea of God"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy Miller

    Center for Place, Culture and Politics Fellowships for participation in "Imperialism" seminar
    Jamie Bianco
    Ira Dworkin
    Christopher Iannini
    Cara Murray

    Two-Year Humana Fellowship
    Richard Perez

 

 

  

PhD Program in English
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