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Deadline for 2006-2007 competition: Thursday, April 12
Every April, students in the Graduate English programs are eligible to compete for the Newton Award, given for the best essay on pre-1900 literature or culture, and for the Beebe Award, given for the best graduate student essay on twentieth-century literature or culture. Essays should be ones written for a graduate seminar in the last twelve months. Winners receive a small financial prize and a faculty commitment to assist in revising the essay for publication. Copies of the most recent winning essays are available in the Graduate Office for reading.
Students are notified of the outcome of the competition during the early part of the summer. The awards are presented in the fall at the opening year departmental gathering for entering and continuing graduate students. For more information on the requirements for the competition, contact the graduate literature program .
2005-2006 Winners |
Beebe
Award |
Janet Neigh, “The Sea Writing Environments of Marianne Moore” |
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Newton
Award |
Andrew Dixon, “Staging the King's Two Bodies: Marlowe's Use of Political Theory in Edward II” |
2004-2005 Winners |
Beebe
Award |
Adrian Khactu, "Political Models of Interracial Romance in Onoto Watanna's Miss Numè of Japan and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly" |
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Newton
Award |
Michael Martin, “Inverted Worlds: Spectral Phenomena and the Discourse of the Interior in the Salem Witch-hunt” |
2003-2004 Winner |
Beebe
Award |
Emily Abendroth , "On the Uncontainable: Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Summi Kaipa's The Epics" |
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Newton
Award |
Margaret O'Brien, "The Influence of ‘Punch' on Theme, Narrative Voice, and Illustration in ‘Vanity Fair'" |
2002-2003 Winner |
Beebe
Award |
Patty Crouch, “Seamus Heaney's Postcolonial Beowulf ” |
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Newton
Award |
Patty Crouch, “Troubled Typologies: John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson and the Problems of Civil War Historiography” |
2001-2002 Winner |
Newton
Award |
Jeffrey Renye, “Beneath the Dome: Ancient Spirituality and the Abyssinian Maid in ‘Kubla Khan'” |
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