News
2022-2023 Student Awards and Prizes
Published: 21 September 2023
The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2022-2023 academic year.
(The writing prizes are determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors’ names removed.)
- Allen A. Lang Essay Award for the best essay on a topic related to either Canadian or American Literature after the year 1900.
Max Grosskopf
Ìý - Catherine M. Shaw Renaissance Award for the best essay on Renaissance literature (excluding essays on Shakespeare)
Haider Ali
Ìý - Catherine M. Shaw Shakespeare Award for the best essay on Shakespeare
Jacob Garofalo
Ìý - Charles E. Fremes Memorial Scholarship,Ìýawarded to an undergraduate student who has shown achievement in both English and Communication Studies and who has demonstrated leadership.
Mercy Lingle
Ìý - Charles Macnaghten Prizes: two prizes offered annually in a competition for the best piece of creative writing in English submitted by an undergraduate student of the University
First prize: Yolanda Smith-Hanson
Second Prize: Noa Padawer-Blatt
Ìý - Charles William Snyder Memorial Scholarships for outstanding students entering U3 in the Honours, Joint Honours, or Major programs in English
Tian Mi
Sophie Semeniuk
Emma Williamson
Ìý - Dora Forsyth Prize for an outstanding female student in the Department of English
Emaline Gonzalez Thomas
Ìý - Dow-Hickson Scholarships for outstanding students entering their penultimate or final year in the Honours program in English
Killian Fortier
Suzanna Graham
Matthew Molinaro
Emma Williamson
Ìý - Elsie Stephen Reford Scholarship for an outstanding student in English
James Jarrett
Ìý - Harry Barker Memorial Prize to the student with the highest standing in English in the initial year
Millie Roberts
Ìý - James Darling McCall Scholarship for an outstanding student entering the final year in English Honours
Matthew Molinaro
Ìý - Jessie Norris Memorial Award,Ìýawarded on the basis of academic merit to a student in the Department of English who is entering the final year
Arthur Weiser
Ìý - Kay MacIver Memorial Prize for the best English essay in the field of English Canadian or French Canadian Literature
Joshua Janke
Ìý - Lionel Shapiro Awards for Creative Writing to one or more students in the final year of the B.A. course who have demonstrated outstanding literary talent
Magdalena Nitchi
Molly Pearce
Alice Wu
Ìý - Margaret & Graham Neeson Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding undergraduate student who has completed at least one year of the Honours English Program.
Haider Ali
Ìý - Mary Keenan Scholarship in English for an outstanding student or students proceeding to the M.A. in English at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ
Eliana Freelund
Lillian Simons
Ìý - Mona Elaine Adilman Poetry Prize for outstanding talent in the area of poetry
Eva Lynch
Ìý - Peterson Memorial Prize in English Literature to a student with distinction in English Literature who has also shown creative literary ability
Amalia Mairet
Noa Padawer-Blatt
Ìý - Shakespeare Scholarship for a student advancing to the final year with special distinction in English Honours courses
Noa Padawer-Blatt
Ìý - Shakespeare Gold Medal for English Language and Literature (which includes the Lionel Shapiro Award for Achievement in English and the Corinne Fay Tabac Memorial Prize in English Literature)
Alexandra Colby