Department of English
Dosoretz Family Prize
Awarded annually for the best essay written by a graduating senior English major.
2023
“Inside the Guarded Gates: Motherhood, Caregiving, and Domestic Work in Janice Y. K.Lee’s The Expatriates”
2022
"Commodity Fetishism and Gendered Economic Exclusion in Isabella Whitney's "Wyll and Testament"
2021
"'What Would Happen if We Didn't Like [Louis Armstrong]?': Centering Blues Figures wihtin Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man"
"A Hell From Which to Return: Print Theory, Deleuze and Guattari, and Rauschenberg's Inferno Series"
2020
Queer Sex in Scientific Discourse: Laud Humphrey's Tearoom Trade and the Pathologizing of Homosexuality in the Scientific Community
2019
A Chamber called Peace: Movement, Rest and Sleep in The Pilgrim’s Progress
2018
More Medieval than the Medieval: A Material Examination of the Kelmscott Chaucer, its Antecedents, and its Motivations "Always historicize!" -Frederic Jameson
Chinese Eyes and Turkish Trousers: Racial Alterity and Sexual Liberation in To the Lighthouse and Orlando
2017
2016
2015
"Politicizing the 'Real': The Representation of Class in The Road to Wigan Pier and Housing Problems (1935)"
2014
"Adapting the Aesthetic Encounter: Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross (2011) as an Enframement of the Art Museum Experience" (2013)
2013
"Performing Oneself: The stage of the theatrical persona in Ross McElwee's essay film, "Sherman's March"
2012
Title: 'Minds unhing'd from old faith and love': Self-Forgetfulness, Memory and Social Redemption in the Works of George Eliot.
2011
Title: "The Philosophers and the Animals": Opening gaps in reason with teh inarticulate voice.
2010
Title: "'Do Thyself No Harm!' Suicide in Richardson's Clarissa and Eighteenth-Century Religious Discourse"