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Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize For best essay on Psychological interpretation of a literary text

2018-2019

Claire Pak  "'Ghosts of the Past': Remembrance, Revenge and Delayed Mourning in Haider"


2017-2018

Claire Pak “On Mediating Absent Trauma”


2014-2015

Solveig Herzum "The Traumatic Experience: Trauma in A Passage to India, Freud, and Caruth"


2013-2014

Caroline Dean "Psychoanalyzing Superheroes: The Melancholy Wolverine"

Jessica Bickel-Barlow "A Comedy of Mourning"


2011-2012

Jessica Bickel-Barlow "The Sound and the Horror"


2010-2011

Katherine Defliese "Memoir as Therapy: Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss"


2009-2010

Madeline Weinstein "The 'World... Within Us': Rilke and Self as Other"


2008-2009

Kathrin Hanek "Narrating the Postmodern Self: A Psychological Analysis of Truth and Lying in Lauren Slater's Lying"


2006-2007

Jennifer Carmen "Conolanus and Othello: Tragic Heroes as Their Own Villains"


2005-2006

Rupali Sharma "On Making 'the Freedom of Existentialism' Accessible to Women"


2004-2005

Laura Selby "Variations on Motherhood: On the underlying similarities between Clare Gibson and Amelia Sedley"


2002-2003

Nicholas Soodik "Theorizing the Reverse Peephole: Cock-Eyed Images of Desire in Seinfeld , Speigel, and Shakespeare"