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Our graduate students excel in their research, writing, and teaching and have received due recognition for their work. Here are some of the awards our graduate students have won in the past.

2024
Natalia Reyes
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library
2023
Lauren Bakst
Project Award Grant, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

https://sachsarts.org/grant-awards/school-for-temporary-liveness-vol-3/

Muriel Bernardi
Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Peter Emanuel Diamond
Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Ann Ho
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Arianna Qianru James
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Kirsten Lee
Predoctoral Fellowship at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, Pennsylvania State University
Eilis Lombard
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

Essay Title: “Blues, Blueprints, and Bildung: National Narrative and Sonic Irruption in Invisible Man.”

A.V. Aylin Malcolm
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Dissertation Title: Every Living Soul: Literature and Zoology in England, 1100-1400

Jacob Myers
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship

Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Dissertation Fellowship

San Andreas Research Fellowship, Huntington Library
SAS Dissertation Research Award
Noa Nikolsky
Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant
SAS Dissertation Research Award
Ethan Plaue
Honorable Mention: Norman Foerster Prize for Best Essay in American Literature

The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Nat Rivkin
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Graduate Fellowships for Inclusive & Equitable Teaching
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Award in the Digital Humanities
Project Award Grant, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

in support of work on the Trans Oral History Project – Artist Collection

SAS Dissertation Research Award
Rovel Sequeira
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Dissertation Title: The Nation and its Deviants: Global Sexology and the Racial Grammar of Sex in Colonial India

Asa Seresin
Kings College Fellowship
JS Wu
Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Eileen Ying
Sweeten Award

Essay Title: “Tempering Abolition: John Wesley, Anthony Benezet, and Slavery as Dis-Ease”

2022
Matthew Aiello
SAS Dissertation Research Award
Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts

Essay Title: "Trauma, Aurality, and the Wounded Orrmulum Manuscript (c. 1170)"

William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Ajay Kumar Batra
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize
David Buchanan
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Joseph Coppola
Critical Speaking Program (CWiC) Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Devin William Daniels
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Daniel Davies
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize
Honorable Mention, Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize
Jonathan Dick
Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
J. Felix Gallion
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Dissertation Grant
Knar Gavin
Dick Wolf Best Graduate Service Award
Peregrine Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Matty Hemming
Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award
SAS Dissertation Research Award
Arianna Qianru James
Yoonmee Chang Dissertation Fellowship
Amber Rose Johnson
Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Kirsten Lee
GSWS Graduate Pedagogy Award
Dahlia Menghui Li
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Alicia Meyer
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
GSWS Graduate Pedagogy Award
GSWS Lynda Hart Teaching Award
Alex Millen
Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Nico Millman
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Jane Robbins Mize
Lois P. Rudnick Writing Residency
Mellon Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Research Award
Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) Public Pedagogies Fellowship
Jacob Myers
Edna Steeves Prize
Honorable Mention, William Patrick Day Prize
McLean Contributionship Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia
Noa Nikolsky
SAS Dissertation Research Award
Ethan Plaue
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Nat Rivkin
GSWS Graduate Pedagogy Award
Kings College Fellowship
Avni Sejpal
Honorable Mention, Sweeten Award
Rovel Sequeira
Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
Asa Seresin
Sweeten Award

Title: "The Haunted House of Citizenship: His House and the Hostile Environment"

Joseph Earl Thomas
Francis Hopkinson Fellowship
2021
Melanie Abeygunawardana
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

"Yes, Pain, But What Else?: Racial Liberalism And Late-Style Morrison"

Matthew Aiello
Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Award in the Digital Humanities
Ajay Kumar Batra
Dean's Scholar
Eve Eure
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

“The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The 19th Century”

Knar Gavin
Career Exploration Fellowship

Host: Penn Sustainability

Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Ava L.J. Kim
Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award
Kirsten Lee
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Graduate Fellowships for Inclusive & Equitable Teaching
Dahlia Menghui Li
SAS Dissertation Research Award
A.V. Aylin Malcolm
Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Award in the Digital Humanities
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Kerry McAuliffe
Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Alicia Meyer
Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Nico Millman
Center for the Advanced Study of India Summer Research Grant
Jane Robbins Mize
Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
SAS Dissertation Research Award
Jacob Myers
Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship

Language: Gujarati

PhD Professionalism Fellowship, Penn Career Services
S. Eric Molin Prize for Best Conference Paper by a Graduate Student

"Arthropods Under the Lens: The Aesthetic Instability of Insect Microscopy in the Caribbean"

Rovel Sequeira
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Andrew Smyth
Sweeten Award

"Julia Fields and the Poetics of Engulfment"

Liandra Elise Sy
Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Clinton Williamson
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
JS Wu
Maureen Furniss Best Graduate Student Essay Award
2020
Shoshana Adler
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Matthew Aiello
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Graduate Student Fellowship
Aaron Bartels-Swindells
H+U+D Mellon Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Chris Chan
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Communal Lyricisms and the Lyricization of English Poetry, 1650–1790"

Dana Cypress
Predoctoral Fellowship, Woodson Center, UVA
Vikrant Dadawala
Critical Speaking Program (CWiC) Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Micah Del Rosario
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Peter Emanuel Diamond
John Louis Haney Graduate Fellowship
Jonathan Dick
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

"If the Ear Were a Mouth"

Zach Fruit
Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
J. Felix Gallion
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Ann Ho
Sweeten Award

"Fugitive Authorship: Non-synchronism and segregation in Fran Ross's Oreo"

Cassidy Holahan
Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Ava L.J. Kim
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Davy Knittle
Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
Lynda S. Hart Award in Sexuality Studies
Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
A.V. Aylin Malcolm
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Nico Millman
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Sylvia Brown Research Award
Jane Robbins Mize
Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Graduate Fellowship
Kiana Murphy
Penn Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Through Diversity
The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies
Mellon Foundation Fellowship at Huntington Library
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Jenna Nordness
Mainwaring Graduate Fellowship
Elias Rodriques
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Rovel Sequeira
ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award
Evelyn Soto
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Beyond the Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries in the U.S., 1800 - 1855"

Joseph Earl Thomas
Chautauqua Janus Prize

Exploring loneliness, race, masculinity, violence and a search for happiness, “Reality Marble” is a memoir, drawing themes and its title from the natural world, and from the genres of fantasy and science fiction. 

“There’s this almost incommunicable subjectivity in childhood that I’m trying to take seriously as a life of thinking in itself that’s very separate from me, rather than a stepping stone toward a better, more stoic and individuated self with an empathetic lure to gaze back on,” Thomas said. “‘Reality Marble,’ using the coming-of-age genre, tries to think about what it’s like to never quite get there, because I certainly never thought I would and plenty of us, every day, don’t.” 

His central questions, Thomas said, “are about what happens if you’re just another nerdy black kid in a bad situation and not a single inspirational older figure, group or institution ever comes to save you — when more often, you’re expected to save them.” 

Chautauqua Institution Director of Literary Arts Sony Ton-Aime said “Reality Marble” is “written in an inventive and audacious prose,” that reads “like a marriage of Jesmyn Ward’s writing and César Vallejo’s poetry.”  

“He masterfully sketches a singular coming-of-age story of a young black man told through his relationship with his pet animals and his friends and family’s love or lack thereof,” Ton-Aime said. “Here is a young writer that is drawing from traditional storytelling and turning it on its head to create something daring, inventive and wholly entertaining.” 

The work “perfectly fits the spirit of the Chautauqua Janus Prize,” Ton-Aime said, and he was grateful to Plum’s “percipience in choosing ‘Reality Marble’ as the winner for this year.” 

Plum, guest judge for the 2020 Janus Prize, described “Reality Marble” as “terrific writing, writing that steps right into the thick, too bold to need genre’s old guardrails.”  

“Our protagonist in this memoir is a child, Joey, in northeast Philadelphia. Thomas gives form to a brilliantly precise consciousness: hope, fury, fear, mystery, stubborn insistence, powerlessness, invention,” Plum said. “His prose miraculously recalls childhood’s deep ways of knowing. These sentences are dense with world and rhythmic with inciting imagination. It’s a great pleasure to celebrate Thomas’ work with the Chautauqua Janus Prize.” 

Clinton Williamson
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship
2019
Natalie Amleshi
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Ajay Kumar Batra
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Dana Cypress
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Daniel Davies
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Tajah Ebram
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Zach Fruit
Kings College Fellowship
Knar Gavin
Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Graduate Fellowship
Ava L.J. Kim
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Davy Knittle
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Riley McGuire
Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Alicia Meyer
Kislak Dissertation Fellowship
Nico Millman
FLAS Fellowship
Chris Mustazza
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Ethan Plaue
Sweeten Award

"The Parasitical Trick: Colonial Encounters between Mary Rowlandson and James Printer"

William Patrick Day Essay Contest

Hearing Echoes: Glissant and Black Media Theory

Elias Rodriques
JRS Student Mentorship in the English Department
Rovel Sequeira
Harry Ransom Center Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Texas (Austin)
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Jess Shollenberger
Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Orchid Tierney
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Material Poetics: Landfills and Waste Management in Contemporary Literature and Media"

2018
Shoshana Adler
Kings College Fellowship
Aaron Bartels-Swindells
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Ajay Kumar Batra
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

“Wrongful Convictions: Abraham Johnstone and the Poetics of the Dead End”

Dana Cypress
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Devin William Daniels
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

“Kill the Body and the Head Will Die: Realism, Capitalism, and the Financier"

Tajah Ebram
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Davy Knittle
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
Sweeten Award

"Counter-Obsolescence from the Window: James Schuyler and the Urban Curative Imaginary,”

Don James McLaughlin
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Infectious Affect: The Phobic Imagination in American Literature"

Alicia Meyer
Funded Participant & Presenter, Folger Shakespeare Library Scholarly Institute
Mariah Min
Kislak Dissertation Fellowship
Clare Mullaney
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Mayelin Perez
Kislak Dissertation Fellowship
Natalia Reyes
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Rovel Sequeira
Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
B. Jamieson Stanley
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Hao Jun Tam (Howie)
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Orchid Tierney
Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Sam Waterman
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
2017
Aaron Bartels-Swindells
FLAS Fellowship

Language: Advanced isiZulu

Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship

Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa; Language: Afrikaans

Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Grant

Country: South Africa; Language: isiZulu

Ajay Kumar Batra
Francis Hopkinson Fellowship
Sweeten Award

"Seeing Conspiracy: Racial Violence and the Forms of White Supremacy in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition"

Melanie R. Hill
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
Najnin Islam
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

“Defoe Before Immunity: A Prophylactic Journal of the Plague Year

Sierra Lomuto
Graduate Research Assistant with the Wolf Humanities Center and Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Joan Lubin
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

“‘Tired of Cruising? Try Numbers!’: Pulp Sexology and the Literature of Quantity”

Riley McGuire
Kings College Fellowship
Clare Mullaney
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Sara Sligar
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Fellowship
Evelyn Soto
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
B. Jamieson Stanley
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Hao Jun Tam (Howie)
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Sarah Wilma Watson
Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Mary Zaborskis
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship

(declined)

Jason Zuzga
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Uncanny World: Envisioning Nature in Documentary."

2016
Aaron Bartels-Swindells
FLAS Fellowship

Language: Basic isiZulu

Ashley Chang
Sweeten Award

“Sounding Animal and Cyborg Others: Race and Alternate Alterities in Cathy Park Hong’s Translating Mo’um and John Yau’s Ing GrishMy Symptoms, and Borrow Love Poems.”

 

Julia Cox
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
Daniel Davies
Kings College Fellowship
Alex Eisenthal
Francis Hopkinson Fellowship
Melanie R. Hill
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Najnin Islam
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Chris Jimenez
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship

(declined)

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)

(declined)

Joan Lubin
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship
Dianne Mitchell
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Clare Mullaney
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

“Not to Discover Weakness is The Artifice of Strength: Emily Dickinson, Limitation, and the Literary.”

Kalyan Nadiminti
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Kelly Mee Rich
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"States of Repair: Institutions of Private Life in the Postwar Anglophone Novel"

 

Sara Sligar
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
2015
Monika Bhagat-Kennedy
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

"Sarath Kumar Ghosh as Scheherazade: Hindu Heroism in Indian Nights' Entertainment: The Trials of Narayan Lal"

Thomas Alan Dichter
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Alex Eisenthal
Sweeten Award

"Realism and the Social Bind: Charles Chesnutt, Individualism and Statistics"

Chris Jimenez
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Lydia Yaitsky Kertz
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Joan Lubin
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
Don James McLaughlin
Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship
Dianne Mitchell
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)
Kelly Mee Rich
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

"Nowhere's Safe: Ruinous Reconstruction in Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means"

Daniel Snelson
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Laura Soderberg
Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship
Marie Turner
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Beyond Romance: Genre and History in England, 1066-1400"

Sarah Wilma Watson
Kings College Fellowship
Mary Zaborskis
Francis Hopkinson Fellowship
GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award
2014
Ashley L. Cohen
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"The Global Indies: Reading the Imaginative Geography of British Empire, 1763-1871"

Jazmín Delgado Flores
Francis Hopkinson Fellowship
Julius B. Fleming, Jr.
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Lydia Yaitsky Kertz
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship
Alice Tweedy McGrath
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship
Don James McLaughlin
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

"Color-Phobia: Rabies, Race, Prejudice, and the Mad Cry of Analogy in U.S. Antislavery Print Culture"

Dianne Mitchell
Kings College Fellowship
Chris Mustazza
Sweeten Award

"Vachel Lindsay and the W. Cabell Greet Recordings: An Introduction"

Emma Stapely
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Bronwyn V. Wallace
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
2013
David Alff
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"British Writing and the Culture of Projection: 1660-1790"

Joan Lubin
Sweeten Award

"Critical Intimacy/Critical Inquiry"

Phillip Maciak
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Don James McLaughlin
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Vaclav Paris
William Patrick Day Essay Contest

"Beyond the Tree: Gertude Stein's The Making of Americans and the Modern Epic"

Marie Turner
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Bronwyn V. Wallace
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Christine Woody
Kings College Fellowship
2012
Sarah Dowling
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry"

Emily C. Gerstell
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Jennifer Jahner
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Sacra Jura: Literature, Law, and Piety in the Era of Magna Carta"

Melanie Micir
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)
Alan Niles
Kings College Fellowship
Katie L. Price
English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship
Laura Soderberg
Sweeten Award

"One More Time with Feeling: Reiterative Memorials and Reparative History in William Wells"

William Patrick Day Essay Contest
2011
Marina Bilbija
Kings College Fellowship
Claire M. L. Bourne
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Todd Carmody
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Intentional Communities: The Public Life of Race in American Literature, 1925-1961"

Ashley L. Cohen
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
James J. Fiumara
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jessica Hurley
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Ana Schwartz
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Christopher Taylor
Sweeten Award

"Sharing Time: C.L.R. James and Southern Agrarian Movements"

2010
Claire M. L. Bourne
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Kings College Fellowship
Jonathan Fedors
Sweeten Award
Melanie Micir
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Rosemary O’Neill
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Accounting for Salvation in Middle English Literature"

Vaclav Paris
Sweeten Award
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Christopher Taylor
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Bronwyn V. Wallace
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
2009
Rachel Banner
Sweeten Award
Joseph Drury
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Machines, Mechanism and the Making of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century"

Kara Gaston
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Jennifer Jahner
Kings College Fellowship
Catherine Nicholson
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Geographies of English Eloquence"

Jared Richman
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Greg Steirer
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Brandon T. Woods
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
2008
Megan Cook
Kings College Fellowship
Jennifer Jahner
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Adrian Khactu
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Greta LaFleur
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Dahlia Porter
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Knowledge Broken: Empiricist Method and the Forms of Romanticism"

Lance Wahlert
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
2007
John Connor
Kings College Fellowship
Megan Cook
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Laura Heffernan
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Myra Lotto
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Cyrus Mulready
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Romancing the Globe: Romance, English Expansion and the Early Modern Stage"

Justine S. Murison
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860"

Emily Ogden
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Veronica Schanoes
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jill Shashaty
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Greg Steirer
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Brandon T. Woods
Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
2006
Jeff Allred
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"American Modernism and Depression Documentary"

Ian Cornelius
Kings College Fellowship
Jennifer Higginbotham
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jane Malcolm
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Dahlia Porter
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Joshua Ratner
Kings College Fellowship
Bernard Jaeseong Rhie
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"The Philosophy of the Face and 20th Century Literature and Art"

Jill Shashaty
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
2005
Michelle Karnes
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"The 'School of Devotion': Imagination and Cognition in Medieval Meditations on Christ"

Damien Keane
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
John P. Lessard
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Justine S. Murison
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Rosemary O’Neill
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Juliet Shields
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Engendering Great Britain: Literary Representations of Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1700-1730"

2004
Joseph Drury
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Matthew Hart
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Erika T. Lin
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Dahlia Porter
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Mark Rifkin
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Manifesting America: Imperialism and National Space, 1776-1861"

Denise Tanyol
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Hannah Wells
Kings College Fellowship
2003
Jeremy Braddock
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934"

Alexine Fleck
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Paul Kintzele
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Cyrus Mulready
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Stephanie Anne Viereck Gibbs Kamath
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Lance Wahlert
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Hannah Wells
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
2002
Jeremy Braddock
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Robbie Glen
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Miriam Jacobson
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
2001
Miriam Jacobson
William Patrick Day Essay Contest
Michelle Karnes
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
James Kearney
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Juliet Shields
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
2000
Ilana Blumberg
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Kerry Moore
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Mourning Loss: The Place of the Object in Narrative Fantasy"

Bernard Jaeseong Rhie
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Matthew Ruben
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
1999
Matthew Hart
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
John P. Heon
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Anna Ivy
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
John Leonard Parker
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"God Among Thieves: Marx's Christological Theory of Value and Literature of the English Reformation"

1998
John Crowther
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
William G. Fisher
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Prosthetic Gods: Subject/Object in Early Modern England

Adam Hotek
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jack Lynch
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

The Revival of Learning: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

Jonna Mackin
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Matthew Ruben
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Erik Simpson
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1997
Stephen Best
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

The Subject of Property: Race, Prosthesis, and Possession in American Culture, 1865-1927

Jill Cunningham-Crowther
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jean Feerick
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
John Leonard Parker
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Lawrence Warner
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

"Cain, Nimrod, and the Erotics of Wandering in Late-Medieval Narrative"

1996
Jonathan Grossman
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

The Art of Alibi: A History of the Novel and the Law Courts

John P. Heon
SAS Dean's Scholar Award
Barbara Lonnquist
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Peter Parolin
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Roberta Stack
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1995
George Justice
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Eric Wertheimer
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Imagine Empires: Incas, Aztecs and the Columbian Trope in American Literature, 1771-1876

1994
Alison Chapman
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Max Thomas
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

The Practice of Poetry in Early Modern English 

Elizabeth Anne Yukins
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1993
Joseph L. Barloon
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Ellen Gruber Garvey
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Commercial Fiction:  Advertising and Ficiton in American Magazines, 1880s to 1910s

Allen Grove
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Lisa Ratmansky
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Sandra Sherman
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

The Poetics of Trade: Finance and Fictionality in the Early 18th Century 

Darryl Wadsworth
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Timothy F. Waples
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1992
Zell Kravinsky
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Andrew Levy
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Free Fiction: Individual and Institutional Visions of the American Short Story, 1842-1982

Jeff Masten
Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

Textual Rreproduction: Collaboration, Gender and Authorship in Renaissance Drama 

Ashley Moss
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1991
Janet Knepper
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1990
Jay Grossman
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Ruth Lindeborg
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jeff Masten
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Judith Pascoe
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Barbara Riebling
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1989
Sara Beasley
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Susan Greenfield
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Teresa Guddo
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Diane Hunter
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1988
Douglas Buchholz
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Hilene Flanzbaum
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Jorg Hornberger
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1987
Alison Byerly
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Cynthia Fuchs
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Barbara Lonnquist
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Lisa Sigler
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1986
Christopher Flint
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Benjamin L. Goluboff
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Philip Edward Pedley
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Patricia Redmond
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Athena Vrettos
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1985
Thea Diamond
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Cynthia Giddle
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Susan Yager
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1984
Celeste Gerard Langan
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Maribel Molyneaux
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1983
Diane Lichtenstein
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Robin Roberts
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1982
Claire R. Satlof
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Constance Walker
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Joyce Zonana
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1981
Jo Ellen Parker
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Joanne E. Starr
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Joanne Walsh
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1980
James C. Hess
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1979
Joan Schwartz
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
1978
Meredith Berman
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Helene Elting Blumenthal
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Timothy Martin
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Nancy Reed
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students