THHP Students Win English Departmental Prizes

The annual Spring 2024 celebration, hosted by the English department, took place on May 22, 2024. The following Thomas Hunter Honors students won English departmental prizes:

Morrigan Byalin won the Trudy Smoke Award in Linguistics and Rhetoric for “The Politics and Phonetics of the Staten Island Dialect,” the Marcia M. Blacker Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Essay in Shakespeare Studies (second place) for “‘Sympathy for the Jew: How The Merchant of Venice Subverts Antisemitic Stereotypes and Makes Villains out of Christian Heroes,” the Audre Lorde Prize (joint first place) for "A Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist." Morrigan was also an Honorable Mention for The Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize (for "The Painting").

Samantha Carter won the Blanche Colton William Fellowship for Graduate Study in English for “‘That magical frontier’: The Strategy of Performance within Emily Dickinson’s Masochistic Voice.”

Julia Matlak won the Mary McElligott Gloster Prize for “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: Examining the Relationship Between Gothic Imagery in Dracula and Soap Advertisements in the Context of the British Empire.”

Fahima Miajee won the Wendell Stacy Johnson Award for Scholarship in post-1800 English Literature for “Whose God and Whose Earth: The Religious and Epistemological Crises in British Imperial Literature.”

Tatum Norvez won the Irene G. Dash Prize for the Best Essay on Women in Shakespeare (joint first place) for “Chastity Tarnished: Exploring Resentment for Women in Othello and Titus Andronicus.”

Shounak Reza won the David Stevenson Prize for Essays on English Language and Literature (undergraduate) for "“Tracing the Transformation of New York City Due to Gentrification and the AIDS Epidemic in Two Sets of Novels.”

Renee Ricevuto won the Barbara J. Webb Prize for an Essay on African-American, Carribean, or African Literature for “The Moon Will Turn to Blood: Nature Within African Spirituals and Beloved” and the Mary M. Fay Award in Poetry (second place) for "Grendel's Mother."

Valeria Suprunova won the Hudson Bruce Prize for Outstanding Essay on American Literature for "Four Case Studies on the Native American Witchcraft Tradition," Irene G. Dash Prize for the Best Essay on Women in Shakespeare (joint first place) for “The Heroic Defense of Virtue in Much Ado About Nothing,” the Nancy Dean Medieval Prize (first place, undergraduate) for "“Demonic Possession in Medieval and Early Modern England,” and the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship for Graduate Study in English for "“Creating an Author: The Printing of Shakespeare’s First Folio.” Valeria was also an Honorable Mention for Marcia M. Blacker Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Essay in Shakespeare Studies for “Shifting the Narrative: Female Voice and the Defense of Honor in The Winter’s Tale.”