Alden Dissertation Prize
The Alden Dissertation Prize of $2,500 is awarded each year to the student whose dissertation shows the greatest promise of scholarly achievement.
| 2015 | Andrew Bricker | Producing & Litigating Satire, 1670-1792 |
| Stephen Osadetz | The Art of Principle: The Rhetorical Preoccupations of Eighteenth-Century Didactic Literature | |
| 2014 | Hanna Janiszewska | Romantic Lives of the Mind |
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2013 |
Michael Benveniste |
The American Ideology: Plot and Culture Since 1945 |
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Steffi Dippold |
Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Colonial America |
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2012 |
Ed Finn |
The Social Lives of Books: Literary Networks in Contemporary American Fiction |
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Kenny Ligda |
Serious Comedy: British Modernist Humor and Political Crisis |
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2011 |
Natalie Phillips |
Narrating Distraction: Problems of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1750-1820 |
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Ema Vyroubalova |
“These Confusions of Lewd Tongues”: Linguistic Diversity in Early Modern England, 1509-1625 |
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2010 |
Jenna Lay |
"They Wil Not Be Penned Up in Any Cloister": Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Book Culture |
Andrew Smith Memorial Essay Prize
The Andrew Smith Memorial Essay Prize is an annual award of $1,000 honoring the best essay written by a first-year graduate student.
| 2015 | Eliza Pickering |
"The Horror in Clay": H. P. Lovecraft, Primitivism, and the Return of Denotation |
| 2014 | Jean Abbott | An Elemental Reading of Richard Rolle |
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2013 |
Vicky Googasian |
Thought-Foxes and X-ray Whales: Rethinking the Uses of the Animal-Machine |
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Tanya Llewellyn |
With Pygmalion’s Joy and Pallas’ Scorn: Myth, Metaphor and Romance in Sidney’s Arcadias |
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2012 |
Justin Tackett |
Investigating Sound in “The Red Badge of Courage“ |
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2011 |
Dalglish Chew |
Metafiction as Figure of Utopian Desire in Michael Chabot’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” |
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Hannah Walser |
Consciousness Dethroned: Charles Brockden Brown’s “Psychology of the Empty Center” |
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2010 |
Ryan Haas |
The Shaman and the Sponge: Intepretation and Contemplation in St. Augustine and Julian of Norwich |
Centennial Teaching Award
This university award highlights Stanford's commitment to excellence in teaching, not only by our faculty, but also by our many and talented teaching assistants. These are graduate students or Stegner Fellows, who assist professors in the teaching of large undergraduate courses and assist the students taking such courses by leading discussion sections, grading papers and exams, holding office hours, and often collaborating with the professor in the development of assignments and course materials. In the English Department graduate students also have a very special responsibility since they design and teach their own Writing and Rhetoric courses, which fulfill the University's Writing Requirement
| 2015 | Vanessa Seals, Nathan Waintein, Ben Wiebracht |
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2013 |
Jessica Beckman, Tasha Eccles, Shannon Pufahl |
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2011 |
Lindsey Felt, Allen Frost, Long Le-Khac |
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2009 |
Brianne Bilsky, Rebecca Richardson, Ryan Zurowski |
The Excellence in Teaching Award
This department award of $500 acknowledges the excellence in teaching of our teaching assistants. These are students in the first or fourth year of the English PhD program serving as teaching assistants who help professors in the teaching of large undergraduate courses and assist the students taking such courses by leading discussion sections, grading papers and exams, holding office hours, and often collaborating with the professor in the development of assignments and course materials.
| 2015 |
Juan Lamata Elizabeth Wilder |
| 2014 | Nathan Wainstein |
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2013 |
Luke Barnhart |
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2012 |
Tasha Eccles |
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