Dissertation Prizes * Dissertation-Year Awards * Graduate Center Awards

DISSERTATION PRIZES

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year:
Anne P. Rice
“Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination”
Director: Professor Michele Wallace

Eric L. Tribunella
“Disposable Objects: Contrived Trauma and Melancholic Sacrifice in American Literature for Children and Young Adults”
Director: Professor Steven F. Kruger

The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
Geoffrey Jacques
“Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary”
Director: Professor Meena Alexander

The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
Ann M. Peters
“Travelers in Residence: Women Writing New York at Mid-Century”
Director: Professor Rachel M. Brownstein

The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
Cara Murray
“Imperial Ways: The Victorians, the Suez Canal, and Narrative”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

The Alfred Gordon Prize for Distinguished Work in Eighteenth-Century Studies :
Melissa Ann Bloom
“Unshap’d Monsters: Political Farce on the London Stage, 1717-1737”
Director: Professor Rachel M. Brownstein

The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
Jung-Wan Yu
“Postimperial Narrative: Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and Tim O’Brien”
Director: Professor John Brenkman

Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African-American Studies:
David Yaffe
“Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Gay and Lesbian Studies
June Elizabeth Dunn
“Troubled Houses: Irish Women Writing the Great War”
Director: Professor Jane C. Marcus

The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Crystal Benedicks
“Spasmodic Bodies and Victorian Poetics: Biology, Masculinity, and Modernity in Spasmodic Poetry”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work in Twentieth-Century Studies
Evan Brier
“Advertisements for Themselves: The 1950s American Novel and the Production of Belief”
Director: Professor Morris Dickstein

DISSERTATION YEAR AWARDS

The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Francesco Crocco
“O Native Britain: British Romanticism and the Culture of Nationalism, 1798-1821”
Director: Professor Jackie DiSalvo

Maria Fahey
“Unchaste Signification: Figures of Transport in Shakespearean Drama”
Director: Professor Richard McCoy

The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
Andrew Fitch
“Cast My Gaze Upon the Ground: Rigorous Days in New York School Poetry”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

The Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Work
Melissa Dunn
“Performing the Interior: Photography, Privacy, and Publicity in American Culture, 1888-1928”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
Jaime Cleland
“‘I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee’: Creating the Representative American Self in Twentieth-Century Ethnic Autobiography”
Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

Sean Egan
“The Market, the People, and Democratic Culture in New York City’s Antebellum Writers”
Director: Professor David Reynolds

Kate Moss
“Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary Britain”
Director: Professor Peter Hitchcock

GRADUATE CENTER AWARDS

Mario Cappelloni Dissertation  Fellowship
Judith Mulcahy
“‘The Deep Places of the Earth’: Alternative Nation Projects in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature”
Director: Professor David Reynolds

MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships
Jill Toliver
“The Evolution of the Caribbean-American Transnational Narrative”
Director: Professor Barbara Webb

Helaine Newstead Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
Eric Falci
“‘A Valley of the Broken Alphabet’: Poetry and the Poet in Contemporary Ireland”
Director: Professor Catherine McKenna

Geoffrey Marshall Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
Matthew K. Gold
“The Culture of Proof: Science, Religion, and Photography in America, 1785-1865”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson

Martin Spiaggia Dissertation Fellowship
Keiko Miyajima
“Theater Matters: Performance and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Literature”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Dissertation Proposal Award
Jaime Cleland
“‘I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee’: Creating the Representative American Self in Twentieth-Century Ethnic Autobiography”
Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller