Each year, students submit extraordinary scholarly work and the faculty who read their essays, take on a Herculean responsibility to provide thoughtful and elegant feedback. After careful consideration we are proud to announce the following:
Richard Maxwell Prize
Quentin Véron, “The End of the Impossible: A Translation and Commentary of Émile Ajar/Romain Gary’s Gros-Câlin (1974)”
Maxwell Honorable mentions
Daniella Sanchez, “The Most Exiled Spaniard: Max Aub and His Antología traducida”;
Arthur Delot-Vilain, “Of the Movement and of the Immobility of Douve: A Translation with Notes of Yves Bonnefoy’s Du Mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve”
The Alvin B Kernan Prize goes to Anne Gross, “Reading Sensation” with an honorable mention bestowed up Elyse Thomas, “Bound: Re-membering the Middle Passage”
Our Calabresi winner is Hannah Gendler Szabo, “Resculpted by Its Own Design: Rafael Cansinos Assens’ Transtemporal Tertulia”
Calabresi honorable mention: Leonie Wisowaty, “Reversing Roots: Tracing the Botanical Dialogues between Paul Celan and Anselm Kiefer”
