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Recent Award Winners

General Awards

Samuel Holt Monk Prize for Best Published Scholarship by Graduate Student in English

Eric Brownell, “Our Lady of the Telegraph: Mina as Medieval Cyborg in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Journal of Dracula Studies, 12 (Dec. 2010)): 29-51. (2011 award)

Chris Kamerbeek, “Appearing Acts: Celebrity, Biography, and Henry James’s Ghosts of the 1890s” in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 42:2 (2009), 43 68. (2010 award)

Emily Anderson , “Treacherous Pin-ups, Politicized Prostitutes, and Activist Betrayals: Jane Fonda’s Body in Hollywood and Hanoi” in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24:5 (2008), 315-333. (2009 award)

Jayashree Kamble, "Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: An Indian Perspective" in Empowerment Versus Oppression: 21st Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. Ed. Sally Goade. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 (2008 co-winner)

Stoyan Tchaprazov, "The British Empire Revisited Through the Lens of the Eastern Question" in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48, "Victorian Internationalisms," November 2007. (2008 co-winner)

Liz Hutter, Marie-Therese Sulit, Mitch Ogden, and Eric Daige (Lecturer), “To Serve, Perchance to Learn:  A Pedagogical Play in Four Acts,” in Pedagogy. Duke University Press, 2006. (2007 co-winners)

Anca Parvulescu, “‘So We Will Go Bad’: Cheekiness, Laughter, Film” Camera Obscura 21 (2006):144-167. (2007 co-winner)

Karolyn Kinane, “The Cross as Interpretive Guide for Aelfric’s Homilies and Saints’ Lives,” in Catherine E. Karkov, et al., ed.,  The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England.  The Boyden Press, 2006. (2006 co-winner)

Anca Parvulescu, “To Die Laughing and to Laugh at Dying: Revisiting The Awakening.”  New Literary History, 36 (2005): 477-495.  (2006 co-winner)

Julia Musha, “Exploring the Ruined University: The Story of an American University Abroad,” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 37, Spring 2004. (2005 award)

Kathleen Chen (Howard), “The Voice of Reality and Justice.” Wisconsin International Law Journal, 21.2 (Spring 2003): 469-493. (2004 award)

Rebecca Scherr, “The Uses of Memory and Abuses of Fiction: Sexuality in Holocaust Film, Fiction, and Memoir” in Experience and Expression (eds. Elizabeth Baer and Myrna Goldenberg). Wayne State University Press, 2003. (2003 co-winner)

Danielle Tisinger, “Textual Performance and the Western Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’ Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims.” Western American Literature 37.2 (2002): 170-194. Special Issue: Western Autobiography and Memoir, eds. Gioia Woods and Karen Boardman. (2003 co-winner)

Karen Roggenkamp, “The Evangelina Cisneros Romance, Medievalist Fiction, and the Journalism that Acts,” The Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 23.2 (2000): 25-37. (2002 award)

Sarah A. Wadsworth, “Louisa May Alcott, William T. Adams, and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series in Books,” The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 25 (2000): 1-46. (2001 award)

Emily B. Todd, “Walter Scott and the Nineteenth-Century American Marketplace: Antebellum Richmond Readers and the Collected Editions of the Waverly Novels,” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume 93:4 (Dec. 1999): 495-517. (2000 award)

Karen Woods, “‘A Wicked and Mischievous Connection’: The Origins and Development of Indian-White Miscegenation Law,” Legal Studies Forum Vol. 23. (1999 award)

Angela Karstadt, “Relative Markers in Swedish-American English: Evidence for a Contact Language Phenomenon?” American Speech 7:1.1 (1996): 27-48. (1997 award)

Gabrielle Dane, “Writing Other/Writing Oral: Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” in Ngugi Wa Thiong-o: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Charles Cantalup Africa World Press, 1995. (1996 co-winner)

Paul Baepler, “The Barbary Captivity Narrative in Early America,” Early American Literature 30.2 (1995): 95-120. (1996 co-winner)

Deborah F. Rossen-Knill, “Towards a Pragmatics for Literary Interpretation,” Poetics 22 (1994): 423-445. (1995 honorable mention)

William Rozaitis, “The Joke at the Heart of Things: Francis Picabia’s Machine Drawings And the Little Magazine 291,” American Art 8:3/4 (1994): 43-59. (1995 award)

David Rothstein, “Brideshead Revisited and the Modern Historicization of Memory,” Studies in the Novel. (1994 award)

John O’Brien, “Milan Kundera: Meaning, Play, and the Role of the Author,” Critique 24 (1992): 3-18. (1993 award)

Audrey Christensen Library Acquisition Prize

  • 2011 Eun Joo Kim
  • 2009 Sunyoung Ahn, Gregory Murray
  • 2008 Erik Carlson, Nicholas Hengen
  • 2007 Lindsay Craig, Lucia Pawlowski
  • 2006 Eireann Lorsung, Alex Mueller
  • 2003 Melanie Brown, David Wehner
  • 2002 Linda Shenk, Jermaine Singleton
  • 2001 Julie Eckerle, Rebecca Scherr
  • 1999-2000 Erin Labbie

Samuel Holt Monk/Moses Marston Summer Research Awards

  • 2006 Jennifer Johnson, Tiffany Joseph, Nick Robinette
  • 2005 Lisa Borys Jensen, Alex Mueller
  • 2004 Adam Barrows, Rachel Mordecai
  • 2003 Melanie Brown
  • 2002 Julia Bleakney, Christina Schmid, David Slater
  • 2001 Daniel Anderson, Marcela Kostihova

Graduate Research Partnership Program

  • 2012 Sunyoung Ahn, Sally Franson, Andrew Marzoni, Caitlin McHugh, Trenton Olsen, Kerry Voigt
  • 2011 Eric Brownell, Sarah Fox, Kate Johnston, William Kanyusik, Michael Rowe, Katie Sisneros
  • 2010 Emily Anderson, Lelaine Bonine, Jonah Charney-Sirott, Nicholas Hengen, David Malloy, Eunha Na
  • 2009 Sara Cohen, Molly Kelley Gage, Eun Joo Kim, Joshua Mabie, Edward McPherson, Joshua Morsell, Joshua Ostergaard, Kevin Riordan, Maurits van Bever Donker, Jewon Woo
  • 2008 Swati Awasthi, Thomas Cook, Sheena Fallon, Amy Griffiths, Chris Kamerbeek, Chang-Hee Kim, Annemarie Lawless, Keith Mikos, Nick Robinette, Adam Schrag
  • 2007 Lauren Curtright, Mitch Ogden, Ethan Rutherford, Lisa Trochmann
  • 2006 Phillip Fuller, Andrew Luckham, Becky Peterson, Laura Zebuhr
  • 2005 Mike Mueller, Anca Parvulescu, Stoyen Tchaperazov

Creative Writing Awards

Gesell Award for Excellence in Fiction

  • 2012 C. Joseph Jordan
  • 2011 Edward McPherson
  • 2010 Claire Stanford, Shantha Susman; Honorable mention Jonah Charney-Sirott
  • 2009 Matt Burgess
  • 2008 Ethan Rutherford
  • 2007 Laura Owen, Marcia Lynx-Qualey
  • 2006 Amanda Coplin
  • 2005 Cheri Johnson
  • 2004 Richard Hermes
  • 2003 Cheri Johnson
  • 2002 Bob Fuglei, Brady Johnson
  • 2001 Kathleen Glasgow
  • 2000 Michael Seward
  • 1999 Stacy Thieszen
  • 1998 Sarah Weaver
  • 1997 Char Miller

Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry

  • 2012 Jennifer Fossenbell
  • 2011 Feng Sun Chen
  • 2010 Brian Laidlaw; Honorable mention: Amanda Beck
  • 2009 Brian Laidlaw
  • 2008 Lucas Pingel
  • 2007 Tara DaPra, Chelsie GawneMark
  • 2006 Eireann Lorsung, Arlene Kim
  • 2005 Stephanie Johnson, Amanda Coplin
  • 2004 Braden Kerwin
  • 2003 Alex Lemon, Karen Rigby
  • 2002 Tai Coleman, Karen Rigby
  • 2001 Neil Kozlowicz
  • 2000 Kathleen Glasgow
  • 1999 Michelle Matthees
  • 1998 Jennifer Willoughby
  • 1997 Carla Homeister

Gesell Award for Excellence in Literary Nonfiction

  • 2012 David Malley
  • 2011 Gwyn Fallbrooke, Sally Franson
  • 2010 Wilson Peden
  • 2009 Josh Morsell; Honorable mention: Heather McPherson
  • 2008 Wilson Peden, Kathryn Leo-Keast
    2007 Eric Dregni
  • 2006 Sari Fordham
  • 2005 Sari Fodham, Laura Flynn
  • 2004 Jennifer Johnson
  • 2003 Laurie Lindeen, Bryan Bradford
  • 2002 Kate Freeborn
  • 2001 Rachel Stockert
  • 2000 Teresa Sutton
  • 1999 Mark Anderson
  • 1998 Mary Winstead
  • 1997 Shannon Olson

Gesell Summer Writing Fellowship at the Anderson Center

  • 2012 Isabel Harding, David Malley
  • 2011 Sarah Fox, Chris Keimig
  • 2010 Josh Morsell, Edward McPheson
  • 2009 Colleen Coyne, Sheena K. Fallon
  • 2008 Ann Linde, Ethan Rutherford
  • 2007 Emily Bright, Emily Freeman
  • 2006 Eireann Lorsung, Jennifer Johnson
  • 2005 Amanda Fields, Braden Kerwin
  • 2004 Will Bush, Jon Lurie
  • 2003 Richard Hermes, Kate Hopper
  • 2002 Bob Fuglei, Jay Orff
  • 2001 Neil Kozlowicz, Debbie Trantow
  • 2000 Elizabeth Noll, Susan Taylor
  • 1999 Angela Mart, Stacey Thieszen
  • 1998 Lynn Bronson, Anna Reckin

Michael Dennis Browne Summer Fellowship in Poetry

  • 2012 Jennifer Fossenbell
  • 2011 Alex Grant

O'Rourke Travel Fellowship

  • 2007 Dhana-Marie Branton, Arlene Kim, Phillip Fuller, Tara DaPra, Nate Slawson, Jake Mohan, Morgan Sherburne
  • 2006 Jennifer Johnson, Erin Altemus, Tara DaPra, Philip Fuller, Jake Mohan, Charles Conley, Eireann Lorsung
  • 2005 Rachel Moritz, Josh Maloney
  • 2004 Alex Lemon

Academy of American Poets' James Wright Prize for Poetry

  • 2011 Colleen Coyne
  • 2010 Sarah Fox; Honorable mention: Kevin O'Rourke, Colleen Coyne
  • 2008 Nathan Slawson
  • 2007 Emily Bright, Arlene Kim
  • 2006 Anne Linde
  • 2005 Josie Sigler
  • 2004 Rachel Moritz, Becky Weaver
  • 2003 Alex Lemon
  • 2002 Lightsey Darst, Neil Kozlowicz
  • 2001 Yuko Taniguchi
  • 2000 Michael Opperman
  • 1999 Yuko Taniguchi
  • 1998 Aimee Houser and Jennifer Willoughby
  • 1997 Jennifer Willoughby

Marcella DeBourg Fellowship

  • 2012 Victoria Scher, Elisabeth Workman
  • 2011 Wahida Omar, Andrea Uptmor;
  • 2010 Josh Mosell, Elizabeth Abbott
  • 2009 Eric Brownell, Colleen Coyne
  • 2008 Swati Avasthi, Emily Bright
  • 2007 Karen Ahn, Arlene Kim
  • 2006 Rachel Moritz, Sari Fordham
  • 2005 Stephanie Johnson, Amanda Fields
  • 2003 Ellen Dworsky
  • 2001 Terri Sutton
  • 2000 Elizabeth Larson
  • 1998 Lauren Fox

ARTwords: Writing at the Weisman

  • 2009 Brian Laidlaw, David LeGault, Liana Liu & Kevin O'Rourke, Honorable mention: Shantha Susman
  • 2008 Emily Freeman
  • 2007 Luke Pingel
  • 2002 Suzanne Rivecca
  • 2001 Bob Fuglei, Yuko Taniguchi, Elizabeth Noll
  • 2000 Carla Homeister, Mary Winstead, Yuko Taniguchi

Awards for Teaching

University Mortarboard TA Award

  • 2000 Eric Daigre

Department Awards for Outstanding Graduate Teachers

  • 2007 Chang-Hee Kim, Lisa Arrastia, Kelly Hulander, Jake Mohan
  • 2005 Lindsay Craig, Daniel LaChance, Mike Mueller, Lucia Pawlowski
  • 2004 Ariane Balizet, Amanda Fields, Chris Larkin, Mitch Ogden, Rebecca Weaver
  • 2003 Jennifer Young, Kate Hopper, Kit Hansen
  • 2002 Jane Imholte, Angelo Volpe, Danielle Tisinger, Brady Johnson
  • 2001 Karen Steigman, Karla Erickson, Brady Johnson
  • 2000 Linda Shenk, Susan Taylor, Joel Helfrich
  • 1999 Marie Sulit, Dave Wehner
  • 1998 Melanie Brown, Haddayr Copley-Woods, Eric Daigre; Honorable Mention, William Anthes, Eric Labbie, Capper Nichols, Manisha Nordine, Karen Roggenkamp, Sarah Weaver
  • 1997 Curt Leitz, Don Meisenheimer