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2004-5 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:
Anne P. Rice
"Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination"
Dissertation Director: Professor Michele Wallace
Eric L. Tribunella
"Disposable Objects: Contrived Trauma and Melancholic Sacrifice
in American Literature for Children and Young Adults"
Dissertation Director: Professor Steven F. Kruger
The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
Geoffrey Jacques
"Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American
Imaginary"
Dissertation Director: Professor Meena Alexander
The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
Ann M. Peters
"Travelers in Residence: Women Writing New York at Mid-Century"
Dissertation Director: Professor Rachel M. Brownstein
The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
Cara Murray
"Imperial Ways: The Victorians, the Suez Canal, and Narrative"
Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys
The Alfred Gordon Prize for Distinguished Work in Eighteenth-Century Studies :
Melissa Ann Bloom
"Unshap'd Monsters: Political Farce on the London Stage,
1717-1737"
Dissertation Director: Professor Rachel M. Brownstein
The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
Jung-Wan Yu
"Postimperial Narrative: Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and Tim
O'Brien"
Dissertation Director: Professor John Brenkman
Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African-American Studies:
David Yaffe
"Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Gay and Lesbian Studies
June Elizabeth Dunn
"Troubled Houses: Irish Women Writing the Great War"
Dissertation Director: Professor Jane C. Marcus
The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Crystal Benedicks
"Spasmodic Bodies and Victorian Poetics: Biology, Masculinity,
and Modernity in Spasmodic Poetry"
Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys
The Calder Prize for Distinguished Work in Twentieth-Century Studies
Evan Brier
"Advertisements for Themselves: The 1950s American Novel
and the Production of Belief"
Dissertation Director: Professor Morris Dickstein
Dissertation-Year Awards
The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Francesco Crocco
"O Native Britain: British Romanticism and the Culture of
Nationalism, 1798-1821"
Dissertation Director: Professor Jackie DiSalvo
Maria Fahey
"Unchaste Signification: Figures of Transport in Shakespearean
Drama"
Dissertation Director: Professor Richard McCoy
The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
Andrew Fitch
"Cast My Gaze Upon the Ground: Rigorous Days in New York
School Poetry"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
The Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Work
Melissa Dunn
"Performing the Interior: Photography, Privacy, and Publicity
in American Culture, 1888-1928"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
Jaime Cleland
"'I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee': Creating the Representative
American Self in Twentieth-Century Ethnic Autobiography"
Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller
Sean Egan
"The Market, the People, and Democratic Culture in New York
City's Antebellum Writers"
Dissertation Director: Professor David Reynolds
Kate Moss
"Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary
Britain"
Dissertation Director: Professor Peter Hitchcock
Graduate Center Awards
Mario Cappelloni Dissertation Fellowship
Judith Mulcahy
"'The Deep Places of the Earth': Alternative Nation Projects
in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature"
Dissertation Director: Professor David Reynolds
MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships
Jill Toliver
"The Evolution of the Caribbean-American Transnational Narrative"
Dissertation Director: Professor Barbara Webb
Helaine Newstead Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
Eric Falci
"'A Valley of the Broken Alphabet': Poetry and the Poet in
Contemporary Ireland"
Dissertation Director: Professor Catherine McKenna
Geoffrey Marshall Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
Matthew K. Gold
"The Culture of Proof: Science, Religion, and Photography
in America, 1785-1865"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
Martin Spiaggia Dissertation Fellowship
Keiko Miyajima
"Theater Matters: Performance and Gender in Nineteenth-Century
Literature"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Dissertation Proposal Award
Jaime Cleland
"'I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee': Creating the Representative
American Self in Twentieth-Century Ethnic Autobiography"
Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy K. Miller
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