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2003-2004 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:
Jennifer Bernstein
"American Antinomianisms from Anne Hutchinson to Pragmatism"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    Christopher Iannini
    "Fatal Revolutions: U.S. Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1707-1856"
    Dissertation Director: Professor William Kelly

    The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
    Marianne Giordani
    "The Sublime: A Modern Trope for Literary Value and Poetic Reform"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    Lauren Kozol
    "Forging Creation: Avant-Garde Collaborations Between the World Wars"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Felicia Bonaparte

    The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
    Jennifer N. Brown
    "A Critical Edition of and Commentary on MS Douce 114: The Middle English
    Vitae of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies"
    Dissertation Directors: Professors Michael Sargent and Scott Westrem

    The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
    Lara Kwalbrun
    "Playing God's Chosen: Protestants, Jews, and Sixteenth-Century Drama"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Richard McCoy

    Sarah Fleming Relyea
    "Outsider Citizens The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

    The David Gordon Prizes for the Best Dissertations in 20th Century Studies:
    Gregory Erickson
    "Reading in the Dark: Modernism and the Absence of God"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Mary Ann Caws

    The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
    Tom Cerasulo
    "Writers Like Me: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, Schulberg, and Hollywood"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Marc Dolan

    David Humphries
    "Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson

    The Thomas Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation in Poetry and Poetics:
    Margaret M.  Nelson
    "Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

    Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African-American Studies:
    Ira Dworkin
    "American Hearts: African-American Writing on the Congo, 1890-1915"
    Director: Professor Michele Wallace

    The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Gay and Lesbian Studies
    Michelle Ann Abate
    "'Tom/Boys': The Racialization of White Tomboys in American Women's Fiction,
    1840-1950"
    Dissertation Director: Professor David S. Reynolds

    The Alfred Gordon Prize for Distinguished Work in Medieval Studies
    Christina Christoforatou
    "Visualizing Medieval Otherworlds in Greco-Byzantine Romances"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Scott Westrem

    The Alfred Gordon Prize for Distinguished Work in Early Modern Studies
    Mark R. Kelley
    "Poetics of Lament: John Milton and the Influence of Euripedes"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Joseph Wittreich

Dissertation-Year Awards

The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Christina Mohler
"Where are the Women? Deconstructing Male Homoerotic Desire in Early Modern England"
Dissertation Director: Professor Mario DiGangi

    Shawn O'Toole
    "Novel Habits: Eliot, Meredith, James, Wool."
    Dissertation Director: Professor Rachel Brownstein

    The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
    Christine Pichini
    "Being-sent: Maternal Correspondence in the Works of Marcel Proust, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Cornell, and Ray Johnson"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum

    Eric Tribunella
    " Melancholia and the Contemporary American Bildungsroman for Children and Adolescents"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Steven Kruger

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

    The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
    Vincent Bissonette
    "The Passions of the Philosopher: Coleridge and the
    Eighteenth-Century Discourse of the Passions"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Blanford Parker

    Diana Polley
    "Transhistorical Emerson: Republic of the Spirit in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather"
    Dissertation Director: Professor William Kelly

Graduate Center Awards

Mario Cappelloni Dissertation  Fellowship
Crystal Benedicks
"Spasmodic Bodies and Victorian Poetics: Reconsidering the Taint of Spasmodicism"
Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys

    MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships
    Jonathan Gray
    "To Reveal Our Better Selves: Liberal White Writers' Response to the Challenges
    of the Civil Rights Movement"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr

    Ronaldo Wilson
    "Black Bodies Black Field(s): Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetics of the
    Black Body in African American Poetry and Visual Culture"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Meena Alexander

    Andrew Silk Dissertation Fellowship
    Ann Wallace
    "Inscribed in Skin: Gender, Trauma, and Marked Bodies"
    Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller

 

  

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