Awards & Prizes
2020-2021
The following students received honors in Comparative Literary Studies for the AY2020-2021:
- Hanbyul Jenny Kang | Thesis Title: "Re-Belonging to the Body: South Korean Women’s Resistance to Double Colonialism in 중국인거리 (Junggugingeori) and 고삐 (Goppi)" | Advisor: Evan Mwangi
- Jeremy Lopategui | Thesis Title: "Nietzsche’s Understanding of Truth, Lies, and Constructing" | Advisor: Samuel Weber
- Lucy McDermott | Thesis Title: "A Reading of Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia and Eugène Fromentin’s Un été dans le Sahara and Une année dans le Sahel" | Advisor: Nasrin Qader
- Tara Shirvaikar | Thesis Title: The Rise of the Female Vernacular: Contemporary Indian Women Authors and the Subversion of the Heteropatriarchal Linguistic Establishment | Advisor: Laura Brueck
The Best Honors Thesis Award was given to Jeremy Lopategui and Tara Shirvaikar.
The Highest Achievement in Undergraduate Research was given to Hanbyul Jenny Kang.
2019-2020
The following students received honors in Comparative Literary Studies (2019-2020):
- Lois Biggs | Thesis Title: "Dreams of a Different Bridge: Indigenous Art, Embodied Resurgence, and the Alcatraz Occupation" | Advisor: Kelly Wisecup
- Lucy Yang | Thesis Title: "Human Landscapes: Nation and Nature in 1980s China" | Advisor: Corey Byrnes
The Distinguished Senior Essay was awarded to Camille Lopez-Silvero.
The Highest Achievement in Undergraduate Research was awarded to Isabella Schmidt.
The Best Honors Thesis awarded to Lois Biggs.
The Best Honors Thesis awarded to Lucy Yang.
2018-2019
The following students received honors in Comparative Literary Studies (2018-2019):
- Lauren Lee Place | Thesis title: "Kim Ae-Ran’s Run Dad Run: Korean Realism and the Value of Translation" | Advisor: Laura Brueck
- Sophia Lencioni | Thesis title: "Transforming and Flinching away in Julio Cortázar’s “Axolotl” and Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung" | Advisor: Anna Parkinson
The Distinguished Senior Essay was awarded to Jack Drumm.
The Translation Prize was awarded to Lauren Lee Place.
The Highest Achievement in Undergraduate Research was awarded to Sophia Lencioni.
2017-2018
The following students received honors in Comparative Literary Studies (2017-2018):
- Erin Dunbar (advisor: Domietta Torlasco)
- Nicole Kempis (advisor: Harris Feinsod)
- Max Rowe (advisor: Corey Byrnes)
The Distinguished Senior Essay was awarded to Nicole Kempis.
The Best Honors Thesis was awarded to Erin Dunbar.
The Hightest Achievement in Undergraduate Research was awarded to Max Rowe.
2016-2017
The following students received honors in Comparative Literary Studies (2016-2017):
- Eleni Dima (advisor: Laura Brueck)
- Emma Montgomery (advisor: Tristram Wolff)
- Ben Shear (advisor: Harris Feinsod)
- Erica Yoshimura (advisor: Christopher Bush)
The Distinguished Senior Essay was awarded to Emma Montgomery.
The Highest Achievement in Undergraduate Research was awarded to Eleni Dima.
The Translation Award was awarded to Ben Shear and Sofia Rivera Sojo.
2015-2016
The following students received honors in Comparative Literary Studies (2015-2016):
- Mary Bradford (advisor: Alejandra Uslenghi)
- Andie Forsee (advisor: Laura Brueck)
- Emily Liao (advisor: Erica Weitzman)
The Distinguished Senior Essay was awarded to Mary Bradford.
The Highest Achievement in Undergraduate Research was awarded to Nicky Swett.