Comparative Literature Prize Winners and Awardees
COM Senior Thesis Prize Awardees |
2020Nicholas Judt Emily Spalding |
2019Taylor Yoonji Kang, “All Men by Their Very Nature Reach Out To Know”: Towards an interpretation of hands in Renaissance and Baroque artistic culture John William Hoffmeyer, Toward a Poetics of Building: An Essay on the Dialectics of Form in Romantic Poetry and Song |
2018Magdalena Clare Duncan Collum, Omnis Celestis Symphonia: Conceptions of Harmony in the Thought and Music of St. Hildegard of Bingen Logan Mackenzie Ruth Sander, Toward a Critical Pluralism: Godot's Journey in the People's Republic of China |
2017Tess A. Bissell, Princeton Inside/Out: Lessons from the Prison Classroom Lara M. Norgaard (Honorable Mention), States of Discourse, Traces of Crime: Detective Fiction and the Social Construction of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Brazil and Argentina Whitney Sha (Honorable Mention), How to do Things with Names |
2016Helena Elisabeth Ord, Reading the Nibelungen Women: Signs of their Times in the Thirteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
2015Helen Greene, From Layla to Shab and Noche: The Literary Influence of The Thousand and One Nights in Spain and Persia |
2014Jessica Christine Blake, Diary Afterlives: Representation, Misrepresentation, and Manipulation in the Diaries of Thomas Turner, Virginia Woolf, and Les Frères Goncourt Christina Eugenia Perruccio (Honorable Mention), The Pleasure in Power: A Socio-linguistic and Musical Study of Rap Music in the United States and France Nellie May Pickett Peyton (Honorable Mention), Translating Translation: A New Approach to the Bilingual Postcolonial Text |
2013Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen, In Pursuit of the Child at Play: A Dynamic and Dangerous Myth of Modern Life Emma Watt (Honorable Mention), Hybrid Texts and the Great Globe Itself: Shakespearean Afterlives in Modern Latin America |
2012Francesca Furchtgott, "In the Beginning, All the World Was America:" Musical Theater and the Shaping of American Identity Alana Tornello, To Dream the Impossible Regime: Utopia from Page to Public Square in the Italian Risorgimento, the Russian Revolution, and the Egyptian Arab Spring Nicholas Hybel (Honorable Mention), Political Beauty: Aesthetic Political Theory in Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Heart of Darkness |
2011Michelle Joseph, Reading the Poe-tic "Art" of Murder and Drawing Geometric Conclusions in Walsh’s Variaciones en Rojo Ting Bok (Honorable Mention), The Self Reflective Actor: Literal and Figurative Mirrors in and between Eileen Chang’s Se, Jie and Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution
Devin Blair Kennedy (Honorable Mention) Contested Body: Identity, Anatomy, Sign |
2010Alexandra Jayne Dantzlerward, Georg Lukács on the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel: A Logical Amendment Paavana Lakshmi Kumar, Musical Alchemy, Temporal Analogy: The Hidden Compositional Models ofThe Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus Anthony Audi (Honorable Mention), William Blake’s Heaven and Hell in the American West: A Study of Dead Man’s Promiscuous Referentiality Zachary Michael Wieder (Honorable Mention), In the Shadow of Words: Three Modes of Literary Translation and the Bilingual Writer |
Robert and Lynne Fagles Senior Thesis Prize Awardees |
2019Helena Van Brande, Let Us Calmly Be Grass: Environmental Poems by European Women Anna Zabel (Honorable Mention), Through the Eyes of the Victim: Depicting Women’s Trauma in Expressionist Theater Nathan Phan (Honorable Mention), “What Type of Asian Are You?” – Exploring the Asian American Experience Through a Deconstruction of Stereotypes in Type A |
2018Alexandra Kiri Mendelsohn, Rylie Street |
2017Emma C. Michalak, In the Garden |
2016Andra Lee Bailard, I Seek a Dark and Quiet Stanza: Translation of Scapigliatura Poetry Zoë Catherine Perot, The Black light: A Translation of Het zwarte licht by Harry Mulisch |
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Maeli Goren, The Story of Mamãe: An Original Play for Young Audiences Inspired by José de Alencar’s Iracema Yessica Martinez, A Tale of Conquering Amanda Devine (Honorable Mention), The Blooming Sequence - Contemporary German Lyric Poets in Translation: Marcel Beyer, Mirko Bonne, and Hendrik Jackson Translation and Critical Remarks |
2014Patience Elizabeth Haggin, The Moonstone: Scenes from the Countryside. A Translation and Study William Turner Howard, Perpendicular Lives by Álvaro Enrigue with a Critical Afterword by the Translator |
2013Lily Akerman, Something Rich and Strange: The Tempest with Humans and Marionettes Ben Barron (Honorable Mention), Silsie: A Theatrical Adaptation in English and French of the Novel Silsie by Marie Redonnet |
2012M. Derek Gideon, Strange Land: Poems |
2011Maria Luzarraga, Due Unto Others: A Play and Critical Afterword Molly Silberberg, Moving Between the Lines: Directing the Ensemble in Caryl Churchill’s The Striker |
2010Laura Parker Fletcher, After by Annie Saumont: A Translation Anna Catherine Sheaffer, The Moth Collector: Short Stories |
Comparative Literature Junior Paper Prize |
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Emily Spalding (2019) A not so straightforward foreword: An analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s enigmatic foreword to Lolita |
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Annalena Wolcke (2019) The “Translation” of the MeToo Movement in Germany |
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Rosamond van Wingerden (2018) Sappho’s Reproach of Helen: Emending a Lacuna to Understand Sappho Fragment 16 |
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Caroline Stafford (2017) ‘Socrate est un chat’: Towards a Feminist Interpretation of Zoomorphy and Alteriority in Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinocéros |
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Joseph Gauvreau (2016) Verse as Lyrics – Setting Poetry to Music in Renaissance France |
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John Colon (2015) Bolaño’s Cognitive Mapping: Charting Globalized Space in 2066 |
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Konstantinos Koutras (2015) Postmodern Notions of the Author: The Case of Fan-fiction |
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Emily Tu (2015) Honorable Mention Past, Present, and Future Images of Asian American Identity in the Contemporary Asian American Graphic Narrative |
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Darya Koltunyuk (2014) Reading through Music and Dance: Turgenev, Chopin, and A Month in the Country |
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Joel Newberger (2013) The Manuscript History of Charles Olson’s “Letter 27” |
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Audrey Hall (2012) A Tattered Copy of Eternity: Theories of Time in Borges’ Fiction |
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Emma Austenfeld (2011) The Incompatibility of Masculinity and Love |
| Rhodes Scholars |
| Serena Alagappan (2020) |
| John Hoffmeyer (2019) |
| Fulbright Scholarship |
| Seytican Ucin (2020) |
| Ellie Maag (2019) |
| Carolyn Beard (2018) |
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Hana Lethen (2017) Lara Norgaard (2017) |
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Amanda Devine (2015) Victoria Su (2015) |
| Molly Gibson (2013) |
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Lily Akerman (2012) Audrey Hall (2012) Claudia Young-Joo Park (2012) |