Graduate Prizes

2011

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation

Abram Van Engen
"The Sentimental Puritan"

          English Department Teaching Award

Joshua Smith

Best Graduate Student Teacher

English Department Teaching Award

Meghan Daly
Excellence as a Teaching Assistant.

2010

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation

Jeffery Knight
"Compiling Culture: Textual Assembly and the Production of Renaissance Literature."

          English Department Teaching Award

Carissa Harris
Best Graduate Student Teacher.

Greg Laski
Best Graduate Student Teacher.

English Department Teaching Award

Jade Werner
Excellence as a Teaching Assistant.

2009

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation

Hyun-Jung Lee
"Evil Genius: Victorian Popular Fiction as Moral Philosophy."

          English Department Teaching Award

Nat Small
Best Graduate Student Teacher.

English Department Teaching Award

Jacqueline Murdock
Excellence as a Teaching Assistant.

2008

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation

Gayle Rogers
"British Modernism and Ortega's Spanish Vanguard: Cosmopolitanism, Circulation, and Modernity, 1922-1939"

English Department Teaching Award

Elizabeth McCabe
Best Graduate Student Teacher.

English Department Teaching Award

Greg Laski
Excellence as a Teaching Assistant.

Karin Strand Prize

Michael Slater
"A Poetics of 'Transfixion': Rape and Allegory in Faerie Queene III."

2007

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize Best Dissertation, First Place

Wen Jin
"Rethinking Cultural Translation: Multiculturalism and Chinese American Transnational Literature."

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize Best Dissertation, Second Place

Daniel Gleason
"Seeing Imagism: A Poetics of Literary Visualization"

English Department Teaching Award

Scott Proudfit
Best Graduate Student Teacher.

English Department Teaching Award

Jenny Lee
Excellence as a Teaching Assistant.

Karin Strand Prize

Abram Van Engen
"Shifting Perspectives: Sin and Soteriology in Julian's A Revelation of Love."

Karin Strand Prize, Honorable Mention

Wendy Roberts
"'For me to live, is Christ; and to die, is gain": Accounting for Biblical Citation in A Journal of Rev. John Marrant."

2006

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation

Hunt Howell
"'A More Perfect Copy than Heretofore': Imitation, Emulation, and Early American Literary Culture"

Karin Strand Prize for Best Essay

Jeff Knight
"Chaucer 'Polyced': THe Labors of Literary Collecting, ca 1532"

English Department Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant

Anna Fenton-Hathaway

English Department Award for Excellence as a Teacher

Hyun-Jung Lee
Winter 2006 Freshman Seminar - "Modern Monsters"

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