Dissertation-Year Awards * Dissertation Prizes * Graduate Center Awards
Dissertation Year Fellowships 2007-2008
Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Fellowship [rewarding excellent scholarship and dedicated service to the English Program]
Rebekah Sheldon
“Future Harm: the Inhuman Future and the Figure of the Child in American Science Fiction”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr
Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowships
Wan-Chuan Kao
“Whiteness in Play: Color and the Limits of Normativity in the Late Middle Ages”
Director: Professor Glenn Burger
Karen Weingarten
“Reproductive Genealogies: Abortion and the Limits of Life and Choice in Modern America”
Director: Professor David Reynolds
The Millennium Dissertation Year Fellowships
Louise Geddes
“‘The Wounds Become Him’: Sacrifice, Honor and the ‘hazard of much blood’ in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays”
Director: Professor Richard McCoy
Sung Hee Yook
“The Poetics of Trauma Narratives in Asian American Women’s Fiction”
Director: Professor Meena Alexander
Calder Dissertation Year Fellowship
Corey Frost
“The Omnidirectional Microphone: Performance Literature as Social Project”
Director: Professor Ammiel Alcalay
Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Grants
Balaka Basu
Jeff Drouin
Lily Saint
Graduate Center-Wide Dissertation Year Fellowships 2007-2008
Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship
Brooks E. Hefner
“You’ve Got to Be Modernistic: American Vernacular Modernism, 1910-1937”
Director: Professor Marc Dolan
Gary Lim
“Familiar Estrangements: Reading ‘Family’ in Middle English Romance”
Director: Professor Steven Kruger
Christopher Schmidt
“Waste Matters: Expenditure and Waste Management in Twentieth-Century Poetics”
Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
Lane Cooper Dissertation Fellowship
Kristen Case
“ ‘A Bird’s Life’: Pragmatism in the Field of Twentieth-Century American Poetry”
Director: Professor Joan Richardson
Geoffrey Marshall Dissertation Fellowship
Irwin Ramirez Leopando
“ ‘Meeting Marx and Christ on the Street’: The Convergence of the Sacred and the Secular in the Pedagogy of Paulo Freire”
Director: Professor Ira Shor
Helaine Newstead Dissertation Fellowship
Balaka Basu
“Sequels, Series and Shared Worlds: Constructing Fictional Realities in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture”
Director: Professor Carrie Hintz
William Randolph Hearst Dissertation Award
Claudia Pisano
“Edward Dorn and Amiri Baraka: A Renegade Friendship. The Collected Letters”
Director: Professor Ammiel Alcalay
Martin M. Spiaggia Dissertation Award in Arts & Humanities
Jeffrey S. Drouin
“Advanced Projects: The Modernist Novel and the New Physics, A Study of Genre”
Director: Professor Edmund Epstein
The Center for Place, Culture & Politics Graduate Student Fellowship
Lily Saint
“Sympathy with the Devil: Intersubjectivity in Black and ‘Coloured’ South African Writing”
Director: Professor Peter Hitchcock
Dissertation Prizes 2007-2008
The Alumni Prize for Distinguished Work on Working Class and/or Native American Literature
Sandra Smith
“Out of Her Separate Sphere: The Action-Adventure Heroine in American Literature, 1790-1900”
Director: Professor David Reynolds
The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Feminist Approaches
Jody Rosen
“‘People Don't Want to Marry Me. People Want to Marry Me. I Don't Want to Marry People’: Marriage-Plot Subversion Through Repetition in Anglo-American Fiction of the 1920s”
Director: Professor Anne Humpherys
The Gordon Prize for Distinguished Work on Modernism
Mark Cirino
“‘Because I Think Deeper’: Ernest Hemingway and the Burden of Consciousness”
Director: Professor Marc Dolan
The Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize for Distinguished Work in Victorian and Modernist Studies
Alina Gharabegian
“The Reappearance of God: Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot in Dialogue”
Director: Professor Fred Kaplan
The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work
Jean Mills
“Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison”
Director: Professor Jane Marcus
The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature
Rebecca Wisor
“‘My Country is the Whole World’: Three Guineas and the Culture of Pacifist Dissent”
Director: Professor Jane Marcus
The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture
Rachel Ihara
“Novels on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway”
Director: Professor Marc Dolan
The Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African American Studies
Judith Irwin-Mulcahy
“Black Atlas: Geography and Scales of Movement in African American Literature”
Director: Professor David Reynolds
The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Gay and Lesbian Studies
Tyler T. Schmidt
“Dreams of an Impossible Blackness: Racialized Desire and America’s Integrationist Impulse, 1945-1955”
Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr
The Calder Prize for Distinguished Dissertation Work
Matthew Williams
“‘Great Anarch’s Ancient Reign Restor’d’: Menippean Satire and the Politics of Knowledge in the British Enlightenment”
Director: Professor David Richter
The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year and the Publication Subvention Award for Distinguished Dissertations
Katharine Jager
“The Practice of Makynge: Masculine Poetic Identity in Late Medieval English Poetry”
Director: Professor Glenn Burger