2020-2021 Student Awards and Prizes
The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2020-2021 academic year.
(The writing prizes are all determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors’ names removed.)
Algy Smillie Noad Memorial Prize for a superior Honours thesis
Alexandra Marian Barnes
Allen A. Lang Essay Award for the best essay on a topic related to either Canadian or American Literature after the year 1900
Charles Campbell Mascia
Catherine M. Shaw Early Drama Award for the best essay on early drama (tie)
Alexandra Marian Barnes
Ryan Laferrière
Catherine M. Shaw Shakespeare Award for the best essay on Shakespeare
Chloe Ray Holmquist
Charles E. Fremes Memorial Scholarship to an undergraduate student who has shown achievement in both English and Communication Studies and who has demonstrated leadership
Sarah Emily Nicholson Ford
Charles William Snyder Memorial Scholarships for outstanding students entering U3 in either Honours, Joint Honours, or Major programs in English
Violette Khandro Barnard Drouin
Magdalena Stefania Nitchi
Alice Siyu Wu
Chester Macnaghten Prizes for the best piece of creative writing in English submitted by an undergraduate student of the University
First prize: Angelina Mazza
Second prize: Amir Hotter Yishay
Dora Forsyth Prize to an outstanding female student in the Department of English
Gillian Shihan Xu
Dow-Hickson Scholarship to outstanding students entering U2 or U3 in the Honours program in English Literature
Rose Jean Bostwick
Violette Khandro Barnard Drouin
Elsie Stephen Reford Scholarship to an outstanding student in the Department of English
Adam Emil Chatelan
Harry Barker Memorial Prize in English to the student with the highest standing in English in the initial year
Anna Isobel Chuprun
James Darling McCall Scholarships for an outstanding student entering the final year in English Honours
Brandon Kaufman
Jessie Norris Memorial Award, awarded on the basis of academic merit to a student in the Department of English who is entering the final year
Rose Jean Bostwick
Kay MacIver Memorial Prize for the best English essay in the field of English Canadian or French Canadian Literature
Sophia Francis Garnett
Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing to one or more students in the final year of the B.A. course who have demonstrated outstanding literary talent
Sophia Francis Garnett
Kira Hoelscher
Margaret & Graham Neeson Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding undergraduate student who has completed at least one year of the Honours English Program
Una Sverko
Mary Keenan Scholarship in English for an outstanding student proceeding to the M.A. in English at McGill
Thuyen Viet Truong
Mona Elaine Adilman Poetry Prize for outstanding talent in the area of poetry
Martin Breul
Peterson Memorial Prize in English Literature to a student with distinction in English Literature who has also shown creative literary ability
Sophia Francis Garnett
Shakespeare Gold Medal for English Language and Literature
Chloe Ray Holmquist
Shakespeare Scholarship for a student advancing to the final year with special distinction in English Honours courses
Evelyne Clark Eng