We’re pleased to announce this year’s winners of department awards and scholarships. We’ll be celebrating these formally in the Walter Harding Lounge, Welles 111, on May 4 at 2 p.m.
Writing Awards
Critical Essay
- 1st Place: William Porter, “Coleridge and Keats Look at a Nightingale”
- 2nd Place: Elizabeth Barber, “ ‘Command your price’: The Commodification of the Family Relationship in ‘Eumaeus’”
- 3rd Place: Cailin Kowalewski, “Knowledge and Identity in Paradise Lost”
- Honorable Mention: Justine Rosen, “One with the Land: A Disintegration into Nature”
Freshman Writing
- 1st Place: Gregory Palermo, “Mommy, My Teacher is a Dictator”
- 2nd Place: David Park, “RAF – An Unnerving Past”
- 3rd Place: Chris Kenny, “The Poet Soon To Be Eight”
Creative Non-fiction
- 1st Place Co-winner: Kate Jordhamo, “Exhumation”
- 1st Place Co-winner: William Porter, “On Returning to First Reflections of a First Funeral”
- 2nd Place: Alicia Goodwin, “Saying Goodbye to Hopedale”
- 3rd Place: Bridget Dunn, “Cloudy-ish”
Fiction
- 1st Place: Elizabeth Sackett, “Fifteen Things to do at an Airport”
- Bridget Dunn: “Breath”
- Bridget Adams: “Fields”
- Honorable Mention: Meghan Pipe, “Litany”
Poetry
- 1st Place: Yael Massen, “Acoustics in the Night”
- 2nd Place: Bridget Adams, “Martyn Died in a Train Accident on New Year’s”
- 3rd Place Co-winner: Gabrielle Gosset, “Poem Puddles and Comma Drops”
- 3rd Place Co-winner: Wyatt Mentzinger, “NYU Suicide”
Mention: Katherine Russell, “first”
Graduating Senior Awards
- William T. Beauchamp Literature Award: Meghan Pipe
- Patricia Conrad Lindsay Memorial Award: Katherine Hart
- Rita K. Gollin Award for Excellence in American Literature: Kathryn Strickland (F ‘10, Sp ‘11)
- Calvin Israel Award in the Humanities: Brittney Walker
- Joseph M. O’Brien Memorial Award: Fiona Harvey
- Rosalind R. Fisher Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Teaching in English: Kellie Fairchild
Department Scholarships
- Natalie Selser Freed Memorial Scholarship: Shea Frazier
- Rita K. Gollin Senior Year Scholarship for Excellence in American Literature: William Porter
- Rita K. Gollin Junior Year Scholarship for Excellence in American Literature: Justine Rosen
- Hans Gottschalk Award: Emily Olmstead
- Joseph M. O’Brien Transfer Scholarship: Gabrielle Gosset
- Don Watt Memorial Scholarship: Stasia Monteiro