2022-2023 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 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
   
• Catherine M. Shaw Renaissance Award for the best essay on Renaissance literature (excluding essays on Shakespeare)
  
  Haider Ali
   
• Catherine M. Shaw Shakespeare Award for the best essay on Shakespeare
  
  Jacob Garofalo
   
• Charles E. Fremes Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an undergraduate student who has shown achievement in both English and Communication Studies and who has demonstrated leadership.
  
  Mercy Lingle
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• Dora Forsyth Prize for an outstanding female student in the Department of English
  
  Emaline Gonzalez Thomas
   
• 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
   
• Elsie Stephen Reford Scholarship for an outstanding student in English
  
  James Jarrett
   
• Harry Barker Memorial Prize to the student with the highest standing in English in the initial year
  
  Millie Roberts
   
• James Darling McCall Scholarship for an outstanding student entering the final year in English Honours
  
  Matthew Molinaro
   
• 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
  
  Arthur Weiser
   
• Kay MacIver Memorial Prize for the best English essay in the field of English Canadian or French Canadian Literature
  
  Joshua Janke
   
• 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
   
• Margaret & Graham Neeson Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding undergraduate student who has completed at least one year of the Honours English Program.
  
  Haider Ali
   
• Mary Keenan Scholarship in English for an outstanding student or students proceeding to the M.A. in English at McGill
  
  Eliana Freelund
  Lillian Simons
   
• Mona Elaine Adilman Poetry Prize for outstanding talent in the area of poetry
  
  Eva Lynch
   
• 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
   
• Shakespeare Scholarship for a student advancing to the final year with special distinction in English Honours courses
  
  Noa Padawer-Blatt
   
• 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