See also the winners of the
Prize for Best Thesis and the Prize for Best Major.
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
2009
- Elizabeth Di Iulio, "'To be Loved and Chosen By a Good Man': Dispelling the Feminist Myth: Little Women as Sentimental-Religious Conduct Literature" Director: Deborah Burnham
- Elaine Ely, "Refracting Race: Zoe Wicomb's Playing in the Light" Director: Rita Barnard
- Andrew Hines, "The Agrarian Flood: Decoding the Absence of Race in I'll Take My Stand and the Attempts of Racial Reconciliation in Donald Davidson's Big Ballad Jamboree and Robert Penn Warren's Flood" Director: Herman Beavers
- Jennifer Jackson, "Classical Myth and Gender Politics in J.M. Coetzee's Foe" Director: David Kazanjian
- Aliza Machefsky, "'Not That Kind': Plants from the New World and the Transformation of European Botanical Knowledge" Director: Peter Stallybrass
- Erica Machulak, "Experiments in Truth-Telling: Pamela's Shift in Narrative Habit" Director: Toni Bowers
- Nicholas Mayer, "(De/Ef) Facing Shakespeare: Investigating Joyce's Dramatization of Masochistic Cuckoldry in Exiles and 'Circe'" Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
- Daniel McIntosh, "Beast with Two Backs: Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Apartheid South Africa" Director: Ania Loomba
- Brooke Palmieri, "'What the Bees Have Taken Pains For": Francis Daniel Pastorius, The Beehive, and Commonplacing in Colonial Pennsylvania" Director: Peter Stallybrass
- Alyssa Sclafani, "'Was Ever Audience in this Humour Won?': Theatricality and Villainy in Othello and Richard III" Director: Margreta de Grazia
- Alexander Ullman, "James Joyce and Jazz Modernism" Director: James English
- Benjamin Wiebracht, "Traces of the Marvelous in Conrad's Nostromo: British Neocolonialism and the Rise of Magical Realism" Director: Paul Saint-Amour
- Matthew Abess, "Treasury of Song for the Home Circle" Director: Kenneth Goldsmith
- St. John Barned-Smith, "Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est; Cicero and Caesar on 55th Street" Director: Paul Hendrickson
- Gabriel Crane, "The Mississippi Project" Director: Al Filreis
- Meghan Daly, "O curse of marriage": Othello, Race, and the Breakdown of Companionate
- Adam Fachler, "Hitboys" Director: Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve
- Livingston Ferguson, "Event Horizon" Director: Deborah Burnham
- Sheira Feuerstein
- Elise Gabriel
- Daniel Goldstein, "Break" Director: Max Apple
- Rebecca Kantor, "Enchantment" Director: Max Apple
- Lily Katz
- Laura Kerr
- Jane Kim
- Kevin Kimura
- Richard Lee
- Stephen McLaughlin
- Matthew Mulholland, "What Did Bob Dylan Say?" Director: Charles Bernstein
- Cynthia Padera, "The Spectator as Hero in the Theater of Tom Stoppard"
- Jane Raisch
- Charles Robinson
- Pamela Rook, "Wall Dreams" Director: Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve
- Aaron Stein
- Kristin Williams
- Pia Aliperti, "Un-Wintered"
- Laura Brookover
- Caitlin Charos
- Maayan Dauber
- Samuel Donsky, "Horoscopes for Horses"
- Sara Gorman
- Samantha Lazar
- Anna Levett, "Chez Moi"
- Kate Liberman
- Greer Longer
- Rayna Lopyan
- Jessica Pfeffer
- Lindsey Rosin, "Other People"
- Hillary Smith
- Claire Stapleton
- Amro Suboh
- Julia Tamulis
- Elaine Wong, "Will Teddy Leave: Shoeshiners in the Reading Terminal Market"
- April Anderson, "Vampire of Her Time: Reconsidering the Role of Florence Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son" Director: Nina Auerbach
- Patrick Dillon, "Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's 'The Dawn in Erewhon'." Director: Charles Bernstein
- Kathryn Fleishman, "Tee-hee! Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale." Director: Rebecca Bushnell
- Jessica Lahrman, "Metaphorical Illness in Hemingway's Works." Director: David Espey
- Ruth McAdams, "Gallimaufray and hellebore: Edmund Spenser and Ben Jonson in dialogue with the past." Director: Sean Keilen
- Moira Moody, "Significant Use: Examining the aesthetics of feeling in Robert Creeley's later poetry." Director: Josephine Park
- Ekaterina Napalkova, "Martyrs, Mothers, Soldiers: Gender Performativity and Gendered Intent in Thackeray's Vanity Fair." Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
- Jonathan Passaro, "Reducing the Round Table: Visual and Textual Narrative Redaction in Medieval Arthurian Romance." Director: Emily Steiner
- Renee Pristas, "The Colony of the Victorian Orphan: Imperial Buttress or Debilitating Other?" Director: Nancy Bentley
- Neha Sharma, " 'Colonization in Reverse': Linguistic, Nationalist and Gender Discourse in Louis Bennett's Jamaica Labrish." Director: Stuart Curran
- Joseph Titano, "'A Capital Fellow': Heathcliff and Emily Bronte's Social Criticism." Director: Sanjay Krishnan
- Natalie Ward, "Iser's Aesthetic Response Theory Viewed in the Context of Collaborative Hyperfictions." Director: James English
- Andrew Amodeo, "Pagan Antiquity and Medieval Authorship"
- Rachel Balik, "Sight for Sore Eyes: The Redemptive Powers of Genre as Art in The Winter's Tale"
- Anne-Marie Bellshot, "Split Personality: Rebecca, Psycho, and Subverting the Feminine Gothic"
- Ian Duncan, "Autobiography or Autrebiography: J. M. Coetzee's Memoirs"
- Susanne Flood, "If I've Told You Once: Imitating Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis"
- Sarah Herold, "Artistic Representations of Women in Middlemarch"
- Aryn Klich, "Langland's Quest to Redefine Vernacular Authority in Piers Plowman"
- Kent Lasnoski, "Measure for Measure: A Parable of Community"
- Adam Levin, "An Exhibition of the Internal: The Effects of Perception on Consciousness in Henry James's The Ambassadors"
- Rebecca Richman, "Critics and Fans: A Reception History of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
- Willa Rohrer, "'Stinging Red, Smarting Pink': The Ethics of Representation in Nabokov's Lolita."
- Danielle Savitsky, "'Terrible Beauty': Desire, Glamour, and the Aesthetics of Tuberculosis"
- Amir Shachmurove, "The Great Truth of Old Ideas: The English Past in Pride and Prejudice, Sybil, and Daniel Deronda."
- Tom Zylkin, "The 'Difficult' Text: The Sound and the Fury and the Failure of Language"
- Bindi Bhagat, "Marketing Fascism: Cultural Predispositions to Anti-Democratic Processes in 1930s America"
- Robert Blum, "'Seeking Hopelessly to Fill the Void': Remedios Varo's Surrealism and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49"
- Johanna Busch, "Angel in the House, the Darwinian Female, and the New Woman: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Models of Marriage, and the Irreconcilability of the Sexes"
- Gregory Cooper, "Joyce and Picasso: Word, Image, and the Paradigm of Audience Perspective"
- Ariel Djanikian, "Milan Kundera and the Epistemological Novel: An Essay on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality"
- Katherine Fox, "The Laughing Antiquary: 'Tam O'Shanter' and Robert Burns's Antiquarian Trade"
- Vivian Hsu, "Revolutionary Politics and Philosophical Skepticism in Shelley's Poetry and Prose"
- Lynn Huang, "Between Manuscript and Print: George Gascoigne as the Professional Poet."
- Christopher McCloskey, "Framing The Portrait of a Lady: Contexts of Revision"
- Megan Scanlon, "Just Rewards for an Intimate Teacher: Explaining the Popularity and the Pedagogy of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying"
- Megan Seah, "The Monk and the Burden of Virtue: Dissembling Vice"
- Nancy Sun, "De Quincey Who 'Boasteth Himself to Be a Philosopher': Reinterpreting Coleridgean Ideals in the Confessions"
- Eleanor Tai, "Twilight Sleep: Edith Wharton the Modernist"
- Robert Tawse, "Milton Negotiates the Muse: Orpheus, the Hebrew Prophets, and the Miltonic Model"
- Sara Zenreich, "'The language she told it in': Multivocality and Dialogization of Gender in Toni Morrison's Beloved"
- Matthew Blackstone, "Second-Hand Trauma: Why and How Non-Survivors Must Represent the Holocaust." Director: Herman Beavers
- Julie Brown, "The Expressive Interior in Wallace Stevens's Poetry." Director: Susan Stewart
- Nikki Cyter, "'The Hive Itself Does Speak': The Language of the Commonplace in Pastorius's Beehive Manuscript and Shakespeare's Hamlet." Director: Peter Stallybrass
- Elizabeth Denburg, "Stowe's 'Anti-Patriarchal Operation': Negotiating Race and Gender in Uncle Tom's Cabin." Director: Eric Cheyfitz
- Elizabeth Donaldson, "Janeites and Their Discontent." Director: John Richetti
- Paul Flynn, "The Visual Novel: The Artistic Role of the Printed Text in Prose." Director: Erin O'Connor
- Rachel Friedman, "Staging Silence: Re-Imagining the Women in Shakespeare's Othello." Director: Cary Mazer
- Sharon Fulton, "Compilation as Containment." Director: David Wallace
- Adam Gordon, "Reading in the Dark: Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Director: Joan Dayan
- Caedmon Haas, "'What whiteness will you add to this whiteness / what candour?': Language and Paradise in the Pisan Cantos." Director: Susan Stewart
- Blake Harrison, "Wandering in the Twilight of the Aura: Robert Walser and Walter Benjamin as Modernist Flaneurs." Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
- Leah Hooper, "'You're but a pun-y': Hegemony, Resistance, and Play in Joyce's Finnegans Wake." Director: Vicki Mahaffey
- Melanie Kefalidis, "The Ideology of The Bell Jar: Mademoiselle, Mass Culture and Images of Women." Director: Rita Barnard
- Marissa Miley, "Reconsidering Dickens and His Illustrious Affairs with Melodramatists and Realists." Director: Michael Gamer
- Tristan Schweiger, "Samples of the Finest Orientalism: Byron the Anti-Imperialist." Director: Stuart Curran
- Suzy Berger, "Who is on the cover of this book?": Interpreting Othello in an Urban Classroom." Director: Jean Howard
- Laura Sieh Chu, "An Infusion of Architecture: Renovating a Symbolic Reading of Chaucer's The Knight's Tale." Director: Emily Steiner
- Akiva Fox, "'The Fruit of that Forbidden Tree': The Many Meanings of a Central Object of Paradise Lost." Director: Sean Keilen
- Elizabeth Ketels, "Sanctifying American 'Individualism': Franklin's Autobiography in Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'." Director: Eric Cheyfitz
- Sara Murphy, "A Poet's Progress: Bunyanesque Walking in Blake's Milton." Director: Daniel Traister
- Yaran Noti, "Pieces of Poetry and Poetry in Pieces: A Print History of Spenser's Faerie Queene." Director: Peter Stallybrass
- Afia Ofori-Mensa, "'A Way to Fly between Them': First-Generation American Literature and Identity. Director: Michael Awkward
- Jonathan Petts, "Of Mentors and Malays: Thomas De Quincey and the Exorcism of Wordsworthian Aesthetics." Director: Susan Stewart
- Rudy Ramirez, "Rock Stars! Celebrities! James Joyce!: Pop Novels and Ulysses." Director: Vicki Mahaffey
- Brenner Thomas, "Arts and Letters: Epistolarity in Pamela." Director: Toni Bowers
- Melissa Torres, "Communities without Boundaries: Redefining Language in Ulysses." Director: Vicki Mahaffey
- Alex Wong, "Outside the Love Triangle: Empire, Aesthetics and Sexuality in the Novels of Willa Cather." Director: Max Cavitch
- Kate Alex, "The Conception of British Women's Literary Authority: Authorship, Motherhood, and the English Reformation." Director: Rita Copeland
- Katherine Ambrogi, "Expressive Nations: Music in the National Tale." Director: Michael Gamer
- Meghan Bilton, "DIDACTIC SENSATIONALISM: Evidence of Social Critique within Wilkie Collins' 1860s Fiction." Director: Erin O'Connor
- Rachel Burton, "Unrealized Claims of a So-Called 'Revolutionary' Movement: An Examination of Robert Kendall's Hypertext Poetry." Director: Bob Perelman
- Melissa Duclos, "The Black Mountain Poets: Individuals Forced into a School." Director: Al Filreis
- Susanna Goldfinger, "Mining the Colonial Imagination: Desire and Possession in John Donne's Elegy 19." Director: Sean Keilen
- Jack Guinn, "Visionary Perspectives from Errant Children." Director: Gregory Flaxman
- Pamela Kuklinski, "Oppressed Race and Repressed Desires: The Homophobic Reception of James Baldwin." Director: Herman Beavers
- Rumela Mitra, "Oscar Wilde: Life and Art as Intertwined Texts." Director: Erin O'Connor
- Jasmine Park, "The Plastic Sublime: A Cultural History of the iMac." Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
- Elizabeth Radin, "To the Beat of a Different Drum: Reading the American Beat Generation through French Surrealism." Director: Bob Perelman
- Robin Rolewicz, "Creating Identities: Criticism, Authorship, and the Nation in Novels." Director: Michael Gamer
- Greg Steirer, "Cooper's __________: Narrating Absence in Safe." Director: Nancy Bentley
- Elysa Voshell, "'Smile Please, Not Quite So Serious': Humor and Subversion in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight." Director: Max Cavitch
- Kristen Webster, "'Dear Diary': The Defense and Affirmation of Identity in the Early Journals of Frances Burney and James Boswell." Director: John Richetti
