Graduate Student Prizes, AY 0708
Shirley Bard Rapoport Essay Prize
This Essay Prize is awarded every year for the best essay by a graduate student in the English Department. Morris Rapoport established this endowed prize as a memorial to honor his beloved wife and lifetime partner, Shirley Bard Rapoport, and her love of writing and literature.
- Amelia Scholtz for her article, “The Giant in the Curio Shop: Unpacking the Cabinet in Kipling's Letters from Japan.”
Bruce Dunlevie Teaching Awards
These awards are designed to develop teaching opportunities for graduate students at the 100 level courses with an intensive writing component.
- Lilian Crutchfield
- Andy Klein
- Yu-Wen Wei
Sarofim Teaching Grant
These awards are designed to develop teaching opportunities for graduate students at the 200 and 300 level courses.
- Joy Pasini for ENGL 321: Early Shakespeare
- Elizabeth Womack for ENGL 365: American Poetry After 1960
Margaret C. Ostrum Summer Research Grants
- Kevin Morrison
- Elizabeth Womack
Caroline S. and David L. Minter Summer Research Grant
- Pamela Francis
- Kimberly Macellaro
Humanities Research Fellowship
The Humanities Research Center awards four competitive fellowships to advanced doctoral students who are completing research and writing their dissertations. It is expected that these awards will enable students to complete their dissertations and graduate at the end of the award year.
- Kara Marler-Kennedy for her dissertation, "Mourning, Violence, and the Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain."
Chair’s Best Dissertation Prize
- Janna Smartt-Chance, “Obeying God Rather than Men: Protestant Individualism and the Empowerment of Victorian Women”
Director, Helena Michie
