Dissertation Year Fellowships 2007-2008

Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowships

Jungchun Roslyn Ko
“Reading for (the) Real: Between Jacques Lacan and Narrative Plot”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

Christopher Schmidt
“Waste Matters: Alimentary Poetics and the Excremental Vision in Twentieth-Century Art and Literature”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

The Millennium Dissertation Year Fellowships

Kristen Case
“A Bird’s Life: Pragmatism in the Field of Twentieth-Century American Poetry”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson

Derrick Gentry
“‘To Learn a Style from a Despair’: Some Versions of Modernist Pastoral”
Director: Professor Mary Ann Caws

Calder Dissertation Year Fellowship

Ramsey Scott
“Capturing Oppression: First-Person Chronicles of the U.S. Security State, From the American War in Vietnam to the Present”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Award

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

Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Fellowship for Service

Tyler T. Schmidt
“Dreams of an Impossible Blackness: Racialized Desire and America’s Integrationist Impulse, 1945-1955”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

Graduate Center-Wide Dissertation Year Fellowships 2007-2008

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

Marta Bladek
“Pilgrimages to the Past: Place, Memory and Return in Contemporary Life Writing”
Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

Carell Dissertation Fellowship

Devin Zuber
“The Science of Beauty: Swedenborg, Ecology, and Romantic Aesthetics”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson

Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship

Melissa Dunn
“Penetrating the Interior: Photography, Privacy and Interiority in American Culture 1880-1930”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships

Ruth Garcia
“‘I Will Not Call Her Servant’: Ambiguity and Power in Master-Servant Relationships in the Eighteenth-Century Novel”
Director: Professor Rachel Brownstein

John Rodriguez
“‘When We Was Boys’: The Autoethnography of a South Bronx Teen Program”
Director: Professor Ammiel Alcalay

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship

Carl Watson
“Recollecting Turbulence: Henry Darger’s Catastrophic Narrative of Redemption”
Director: Professor Joshua Wilner

Dissertation Prizes 2006-2007

The Alumni Prize for Distinguished Work on Working Class Literature

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

The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work on Modernism

Natalie Reitano
“Against Redemption: Interrupting the Future in the Fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, Kazuo Ishiguro and W.G. Sebald”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

The Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize for Distinguished Work in Cultural Studies

Kevin L. Ferguson
“Engaging the Eighties: Ethics, Objects, Periods”
Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

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

Christopher S. Leslie
“Social Science Fiction”
Director: Professor Marc Dolan

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

Denell Downum
“Feathered Glory: A Poet in Flight from Medieval Ireland to the Twentieth Century”
Director: Professor Catherine McKenna

The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature

Douglas A. Martin
“When She Does What She Does: Intertextual Desire and Influence in Kathy Acker’s Narratives”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture

Matthew K. Gold
“The Culture of Proof: Science, Religion, and Photography in America, 1780-1875”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson

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

Christine Pichini
“Being-Sent: Maternal Correspondence in Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Bishop, and Marianne Moore”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Feminist Approaches

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

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year and the Publication Subvention Award for Distinguished Dissertations

Una Chung
“Contagion of Living: East-West Experimentations with Affectivity, Subjectivity, and Political Embodiment”
Director: Professor Steven F. Kruger