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Selected Honors Projects

English

• Victoria Wiet, "(Un)dressing the Archive: Genealogies of Female Embodiment in Marisa Carnesky's Jewess Tattooess" (thesis, 2011)
  • Co-winner of the Doris Brewer Cohen Award for Best Senior Thesis in the Humanities
  • Co-winner of the Giller-Sagan Prize for Best Senior Paper in Women's & Gender Studies
  • Winner of Richard Saber Grant

• Elana Friedland, "Time, Place, and People: A Consideration of the Postmodern City" (essay, 2011)
  • Winner of Undergraduate Research Program Grant

• Tal Zaken, "What Does That Story Mean?" (thesis, 2011)
  • Winner of the Allen Grossman Prize for Best Senior Thesis in English and American Literature

• Julian Olidort, "Milton's Hebraist Theodicy and the Theodical Paradox in the Epics of John Milton" (thesis, 2011)

• Talia Warmflash,"How Loneliness Became 'God Forbidd'n': A Study of the Shifting Connotations of the Word Loneliness Through the Lens of the Works of John Milton" (thesis, 2011)
  
  • Winner of the Renee Lang Award for Outstanding Senior Project in Literature
  • Winner of the Safier-Jolles Prize for Best Senior Thesis in the History of Ideas

• Emma Needleman, "The Whole Thing is Comical: Laughter and Unmeaning in Beckett's Endgame" (essay, 2010)

• Sarah Bayer, "Narration and Authority in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger" (essay, 2010)

• Joyce Wang, "The Great Folklore Debate: Tracing the Origin of Folk Tales via Joseph Jacobs and Andrew Lang" (essay, 2010)

• Jessica Steinberg, "The Literary History of Autism" (thesis, 2010)
  
  • Winner of the Doris Brewer Cohen Award for Best Senior Thesis in the Humanities

• Julie Zong, "Distinctive Realism and the Transition from Short Story to Novel in George Eliot's Adam Bede and Scenes of Clerical Life" (essay, 2010)

• Ryan McElhaney, "Eternity and Finitude: The Imagination and the Selfhood as the Driving Forces in William Blake's Mythological Poetry" (thesis, 2010)

Creative Writing

• Rachel Rosman, No Wake (story collection, 2011)
  • Winner of the Grossbardt Award for a Senior Thesis in Fiction

• Douglas Nevins, Duo for Saxophone and Human Torso: Poems (poetry collection, 2011)
  
  • Winner of the Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Award for Best Senior Thesis

• Lauren Paris, A Love of Errors: Poems (poetry collection, 2011)
  
  • Winner of the Grossbardt Memorial Poetry Prize

• Jason Henry Simon-Bierenbaum, Demons Around the Fire (poetry collection, 2011)
  
  • Winner of the Bernard Herman Award for Excellence in Creative Writing

• Rachel Kincaid, Trespasses (story collection, 2010)
  • Winner of the Andrew Grossbardt Memorial Prize for a Senior Thesis in Fiction

• Miriam Cooper, Let My People Go (story collection, 2010)
  • Winner of the Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Memorial Prize for Best Senior Thesis

• Heather Lefebvre, We Welcome All Sorts (story collection, 2010)
  • Winner of the Yakas Family Award for Excellence in Creative Writing

• Emma Needleman, Nice Things (novella, 2010)
  • Winner of the Bernard Herman Endowed Prize in Creative Writing