Comparative Literature Senior Thesis Prize Awardees |
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Taylor Yoonji Kang (2019) “ALL MEN BY THEIR VERY NATURE REACH OUT TO KNOW”: Towards an interpretation of hands in Renaissance and Baroque artistic culture |
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John William Hoffmeyer (2019) Toward a Poetics of Building: An Essay on the Dialectics of Form in Romantic Poetry and Song |
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Magdalena Clare Duncan Collum (2018) Omnis Celestis Symphonia: Conceptions of Harmony in the Thought and Music of St. Hildegard of Bingen |
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Logan Mackenzie Ruth Sander (2018) TOWARD A CRITICAL PLURALISM: Godot's Journey in the People's Republic of China |
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Tess A. Bissell (2017) Princeton Inside/Out: Lessons from the Prison Classroom |
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Lara M. Norgaard (2017) Honorable Mention States of Discourse, Traces of Crime: Detective Fiction and the Social Construction of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Brazil and Argentina |
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Whitney Sha (2017) Honorable Mention How to do Things with Names |
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Helena Elisabeth Ord (2016) Reading the Nibelungen Women: Signs of their Times in the Thirteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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Helen Greene (2015) From Layla to Shab and Noche: The Literary Influence of The Thousand and One Nights in Spain and Persia |
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Jessica Christine Blake (2014) Diary Afterlives: Representation, Misrepresentation, and Manipulation in the Diaries of Thomas Turner, Virginia Woolf, and Les Frères Goncourt |
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Christina Eugenia Perruccio (2014) Honorable Mention The Pleasure in Power: A Socio-linguistic and Musical Study of Rap Music in the United States and France |
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Nellie May Pickett Peyton (2014) Honorable Mention Translating Translation: A New Approach to the Bilingual Postcolonial Text |
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Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen (2013) In Pursuit of the Child at Play: A Dynamic and Dangerous Myth of Modern Life |
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Emma Watt (2013) Honorable Mention Hybrid Texts and the Great Globe Itself: Shakespearean Afterlives in Modern Latin America |
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Francesca Furchtgott (2012) "In the Beginning, All the World Was America:" Musical Theater and the Shaping of American Identity |
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Alana Tornello (2012) To Dream the Impossible Regime: Utopia from Page to Public Square in the Italian Risorgimento, the Russian Revolution, and the Egyptian Arab Spring |
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Nicholas Hybel (2012) Honorable Mention Political Beauty: Aesthetic Political Theory in Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Heart of Darkness |
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Michelle Joseph (2011) Reading the Poe-tic "Art" of Murder and Drawing Geometric Conclusions in Walsh’s Variaciones en Rojo |
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Ting Bok (2011) Honorable Mention The Self Reflective Actor: Literal and Figurative Mirrors in and between Eileen Chang’s Se, Jie and Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution |
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Devin Blair Kennedy (2011) Honorable Mention Contested Body: Identity, Anatomy, Sign |
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Alexandra Jayne Dantzlerward (2010) Georg Lukács on the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel: A Logical Amendment |
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Paavana Lakshmi Kumar (2010) Musical Alchemy, Temporal Analogy: The Hidden Compositional Models ofThe Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus |
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Anthony Audi (2010) Honorable Mention William Blake’s Heaven and Hell in the American West: A Study of Dead Man’s Promiscuous Referentiality |
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Zachary Michael Wieder (2010) Honorable Mention In the Shadow of Words: Three Modes of Literary Translation and the Bilingual Writer |
Robert and Lynne Fagles Senior Thesis Prize Awardees |
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Helena Van Brande (2019) Let Us Calmly Be Grass: Environmental Poems by European Women |
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Anna Zabel (2019) Honorable Mention Through the Eyes of the Victim: Depicting Women’s Trauma in Expressionist Theater |
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Nathan Phan (2019) Honorable Mention “What Type of Asian Are You?” – Exploring the Asian American Experience Through a Deconstruction of Stereotypes in Type A |
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Alexandra Kiri Mendelsohn (2018) Rylie Street |
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Emma C. Michalak (2017) In the Garden |
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Andra Lee Bailard (2016) I Seek a Dark and Quiet Stanza: Translation of Scapigliatura Poetry |
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Zoë Catherine Perot (2016) The Black light: A Translation of Het zwarte licht by Harry Mulisch |
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Maeli Goren (2015) The Story of Mamãe: An Original Play for Young Audiences Inspired by José de Alencar’s Iracema |
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Yessica Martinez (2015) A TALE OF CONQUERING |
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Amanda Devine (2015) Honorable Mention The Blooming Sequence - Contemporary German Lyric Poets in Translation: Marcel Beyer, Mirko Bonne, and Hendrik Jackson Translation and Critical Remarks |
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Patience Elizabeth Haggin (2014) The Moonstone: Scenes from the Countryside. A Translation and Study |
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William Turner Howard (2014) Perpendicular Lives by Álvaro Enrigue with a Critical Afterword by the Translator |
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Lily Akerman (2013) Something Rich and Strange: The Tempest with Humans and Marionettes |
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Ben Barron (2013) Honorable Mention Silsie: A Theatrical Adaptation in English and French of the Novel Silsie by Marie Redonnet |
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M. Derek Gideon (2012) Strange Land: Poems |
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Maria Luzarraga (2011) Due Unto Others: A Play and Critical Afterword |
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Molly Silberberg (2011) Moving Between the Lines: Directing the Ensemble in Caryl Churchill’s The Striker |
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Laura Parker Fletcher (2010) After by Annie Saumont: A Translation |
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Anna Catherine Sheaffer (2010) 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 |