Department of English
College Alumni Society Henry Reed Prize
Awarded for the best essay written by an undergraduate on the literature of the English Renaissance.
2024
“A Woman Who is not Eminently Good: the Tragedy of Eve in Paradise Lost”
2023
"'The Pilgrims went up that hill with ease, because they had these two men to lead them up by the arms': The Collaborative Nature of Faith and Allegory in The Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War."
2022
2021
"'A Place for Freedom'?: Construction and the Pastoral in The Convent of Pleasure"
"Margaret Cavendish's Philosophical Letters: Early Modern Optics and Gendered Vision"
2020
'Is it not queer?': Derek Jarman's Edward II and Dialogue Changes as a Weapon of Homophobia
2019
2017
2016
2015
2013
"Less Accessible by Extension: The Theologies of the Poetry of Crashaw, Donne and Herbert"
"Authority Through Contradiction: Material and Immaterial in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World"
2012
2011
Title: Prompt: Jacobean drama was 'troubled with the mother' - that is, the plays express considerable anxiety about the maternal." Discuss the representation of motherhood in Jacobean Theater.
2010
Title: "An Apology for Difficult Poetry: The Politics of Glossing in Spenser's Shepharde's Calendar"