Barnard Department of English Awards
Each year, the English Department awards named prizes to a few English majors in recognition of their scholarship and accomplishments. The prizes requiring writing submissions are open to those not majoring in English as well.
Recipients of the 2014 Departmental Awards:
The ESTELLE M. ALLISON PRIZE
For excellence in literature
Winner: Zoe Camp
The ES CARRIGAN PRIZE
For graduate work in English
Winner: Gwen Fishel
The W. CABELL GREET PRIZE
To a major for excellence in English
Winners: Liana Gergely and Aliza Goldberg
The WILLIAM HALLER PRIZE
Awarded annually by the Barnard English Department to a graduating senior for excellence in the study of English Literature
Winner: Samantha Moffett
The SAINT AGATHA-MURIEL BOWDEN MEMORIAL PRIZE
For superior proficiency in the study of Chaucer and Medieval literature
Winner: Madeline Pantalena
The STAINS-BERLE MEMORIAL PRIZE IN ANGLO-SAXON
For excellence in Anglo-Saxon language and literature
Winner: Verity Walsh
Writing Prizes
The DORIS E. FLEISCHMAN PRIZE
For the student at Barnard judged by the Faculty of the English Department to have written the best short piece, fiction or non-fiction
Winner: Beatrice Helman
The AMY LOVEMAN MEMORIAL FUND PRIZE
For the best original poem by a Barnard undergraduate
Winner: Rachel Susser
The LENORE MARSHALL BARNARD PRIZES
In prose and poetry
- Prose winnes: J. Zoe Camp and Aliza Goldberg
- Poetry winners: Eva Schach and Christina Ellsberg
The SIDNEY MINER POETRY PRIZE
To the senior major who has shown distinction in the reading, writing, & study of poetry
Winner: Madeline Pantalena
The HELEN PRINCE MEMORIAL PRIZE
For excellence in dramatic composition
Winners: None given in 2014
The HOWARD M. TEICHMANN WRITING PRIZE
To a graduating senior for work distinguished in its originality of concept and excellence of execution
Winners:
Kassandra Mendes
Aliza Goldberg
Cleo Levin
Beatrice Helman
Based on Submissions
Awarded by Outside Judges:
The PETER S. PRESCOTT PRIZE FOR PROSE WRITING
For a work of prose fiction which gives the greatest evidence of creative imagination and sustained ability
- 1st place winner: Carmen Ren and Lily Fishman
- 2nd place winner: Emma Arett
- 3rd place winners: Cleo Levin and Soyeon Kim
- Honorable mention: Kassandra Mendes
The HELENE SEARCY PULS PRIZE
For the best poem in an annual student competition
Winners:
- First: Sasha Henriques and Annie Diamond
- Second place: Anne-Sophie Mortensen
- Third Place: Eva Schach and Rachel Susser
- Honorable mention: Amelia Pitcherella
Judged by Departmental Committee
The BURNS SOCIETY PRIZE
To the student who writes the best paper on a topic related to the poetry of the 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns
Winner: None given in 2014
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