Dissertation Year Fellowships 2006-2007

Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowships

Katharine Jager
“The Practice of Making: Masculine Poetic Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England”
Director: Professor Glenn Burger

Matthew Williams
“Convention, Skepticism and Modernity: Satire’s Place in the Enlightenment”
Director: Professor David Richter

The Millennium Dissertation Year Fellowships

Christopher Leslie
“Cultural Resistance in Mass Media: American Science Fiction, 1935-1985”
Director: Professor Marc Dolan

LaRose Parris
“Being Apart: The African Diaspora and the Existential”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

The Irving Howe Dissertation Year Fellowship for Work in Politics and Literature

Christa Baiada
“Living Death: Death, Mourning, and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Fiction”
Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Award

Una Chung
“Contagion of Living: East West Experimentations with Affects, Bodies, Identities”
Director: Professor Steven Kruger

Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Fellowships for Service

Helen Davis
“Narrating Autonomy: Female Professionalization and Love in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

Jody Rosen
“Repetition with Difference: Marriage in Anglo-American Fiction of the 1920s”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

Graduate Center-Wide Dissertation Year Fellowships 2006-2007

Randolph L. Braham Dissertation Award (for work in Jewish, Eastern European, or Holocaust-related studies)

Jennie Rosenfeld
“Talmudic Rereadings: Toward a Modern Orthodox Sexual Ethic”
Director: Professor David Richter

Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship (for students of high academic merit who show exceptional promise in their field of study)

Jean Mills
“Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison”
Director: Professor Jane Marcus

MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships

Brenda Henry-Offor
“The Paradoxical Nature of Intimacy in Renaissance Drama and the Impact of Space on Its Development”
Director: Professor Mario DiGangi

Danny Sexton
“Marriage and Masculine Plots in the Novels of George Eliot: Representing and Constructing Victorian Masculinity with the Marriage Plot”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (for work on the theme of aftermaths)

Alina Gharabegian
“The Reappearance of God: Matthew Arnold and T. S. Eliot in Dialogue”
Director: Professor Fred Kaplan

Alexander C. Naclerio Award (for research in housing and urban development)

Caroline Hellman
“Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and Domesticities of Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton”
Director: Professor Marc Dolan

Helaine Newstead Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities

Tyler Schmidt
“ ‘Across the Dull Dare’: Race, Desire, and America’s Postwar Integration”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

Dissertation Prizes 2004-2005

The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work on Romanticism

James Hatch
“Refiguring the Fall: Shame and Intertextuality in Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Keats”
Director: Professor Joshua Wilner

The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work in Composition Studies

Tim McCormack
“Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing”
Director: Professor Sondra Perl

The Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize for Distinguished Work in Early Modern Studies

Maria Fahey
“Unchaste Signification: Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama”
Director: Professor Richard McCoy

The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work

Jeffrey Couchman
“The Devil and Miz Cooper: The Night of the Hunter on Page and Screen”
Director: Professor Morris Dickstein

The Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African American Studies

Jonathan Gray
“Innocence by Association: Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

The Timothy Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation on 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics

Eric Falci
“ ‘A Valley of the Broken Alphabet’: Gaps and Fractures in Contemporary Irish Poetry”
Director: Professor Catherine McKenna

The Irving Howe Prizes for the Best Dissertations Involving Politics and Literature

Jamie Skye Bianco
“New Media and Technoscience Fictions: Affect, Speed, and Control”
Co-Directors: Peter Hitchcock and Patricia Clough

Krystyna Zamorska
“Ethnic Fictions: Cultural Mediations in Contemporary American Writing”
Director: Professor Peter Hitchcock

The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture

Andrea Knutson
“American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson

The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sean O’Toole
“Technologies of the Self: Habit and the Victorian Novel”
Director: Professor Rachel Brownstein

The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prizes for the Best Dissertations Involving Feminist Approaches

Margaret George
“Self-Possessed Subjects: Property, Identity and the Love-Letter in British Women’s Fiction, 1781-1853”
Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

Cathleen Rowley
“Women’s Rights and Women’s Work: Politics and Professionalism in 19th Century American Fiction”
Director: Professor David Reynolds

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prizes for the Most Distinguished Dissertations of the Year and the Publication Subvention Awards for Distinguished Dissertations

Maria Fahey
Eric Falci