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2002-2003 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:
Duncan Faherty
"'A Game of Architectural Consequences': The American House and the Formation of National Identity, 1776-1858"
Dissertation Director: Provost William Kelly

    The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
    Oona Frawley
    "Irish Pastoral: Nature and Nostalgia in Irish Literature"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Catherine McKenna

    The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
    Stephanie Oppenheim
    "Spinning Their Wheels: Spinsters and Narrative in 18th and 19th century British Women's Fiction"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy Miller

    The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
    Adrian Wisnicki
    "Towards Conspiracy Theory: Revolution, Terrorism and Paranoia From Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

    The David Gordon Prizes for the Best Dissertations in 20th Century Studies:
    Gloria Fisk
    "Tragic Knowledge in Postmodern Novels"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Louis Menand

    Janine Utell
    "Play for Moral Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Edward Epstein

    The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
    Kimberly Engber
    "Intimate Observers: American Women Writers in an Ethnographic Tradition"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    The Thomas Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation in Poetry and Poetics:
    Ann Hoff
    "'This is my room': Modernist Women Poets' Self-Exposure"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

    Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African-American Studies:
    Josh Gosciak
    "Between Diaspora and Internationalism: Claude McKay and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Jane Marcus

Dissertation-Year Awards

The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Jamie Bianco
"Technoscience Fictions: Catastrophe, Complexity, Control and Affect by Design"
Dissertation Directors: Professors Peter Hitchcock and Patricia Clough

    The Townsend Harris Dissertation Year Fellowship
    Cara Murray
    "Monumental Dissolution: Victorians Representing the Suez Canal"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

    The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
    Evan Brier
    "Advertisements for Themselves: the 1950s American Novel and the Production of Belief"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Louis Menand

    The Grace Calder Dissertation Year Awards
    Crystal Benedicts
    "Spasmodic Bodies and Victorian Poetics: Reconsidering the Taint of Spasmodicism"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

    Kay Harel
    "The Descent of Beauty: Its Causes and Consequent Characteristics"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    The Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Awards
    June Dunn
    "Troubled Houses: Irish Women Writing the Great War"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Jane Marcus

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

    The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
    Ann Wallace
    "Inscribed in Skin: Gender, Trauma, and Marked Bodies"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy Miller

Graduate Center Awards

    Dissertation Year Fellowship
    Jennifer Abeles
    "John Dee's Brytanici Imperii Limites: A Scholarly Edition"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Scott Westrem

    Jewish Foundation for The Education of Women Dissertation Fellowship
    Katherine Harris
    "Women Writers, Literary Annuals, and Archives: Archiving the Textual Body, Authorial Identity and Bodily Subject in a Digital Structure"
    Dissertation Director: Professor David Greetham

    Center for the Humanities Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship
    Mischa Edwards
    "The Heroic Dividing Line: Mapping the Geography of Social Uplift in Contemporary African-American Literature"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

    Center for Place, Culture and Politics Fellowships
    for participation in "War" seminar
    James Groom

 

  

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