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2025 Comparative Literature Undergraduate Awards
2025 UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
- BEST SCHOLARLY PAPER winner: IMAN SYED for "Restaging Space, Voice, and the Woman in Mina Loy’s Three Moments in Paris."
- Honorable mention: KAMIL SZCZECH for “Odysseus Beyond His Scar” BEST TRANSLATION PROJECT
- special mention: EVELYN ORAVEZ for a selection of poems from Blanca Varela’s Animal Concert
Comp Lit celebrates its 2023 undergraduates!
At our end-of-year celebration on May 11, 2023, undergraduate director Prof. Karen Bishop recognized all of our graduating majors and minors along with honors thesis writers Ari Colaprete (highest honors), Sarah Fradkin, and Eliza Rosenthale (highest honors).
Comp Lit's undergraduate awards were announced and presented as well. This year's Best Scholarly Paper award went to Eliza Rosenthale for "The Unknown Soldiers: Domesticity as Resistance." Daria Turner's "Many Tragic Forms: Ideas and Actions in Sophocles and Fugard" and Kamil Szczech's "On the Signifier, the Signified, and the Problem of Naming" won Honorable Mention. The award for Best Creative Work in Comp Lit went to Charles Stephens for "Elsewhere." Congratulations one and all!
Honors Theses, Class of 2020
Congratulations to our undergrad honor student!
Christina Chen: "'The Happy Fate of Genji's Darling': Fiction and Power in the Genji and Murasaki Relationship" (dir. J. Walker)
The editors of PROTEUS: The Rutgers Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature are pleased to announce their 2019-2020 edition!
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Honors Theses, Class of 2018
Jamie Haleva: “Social Status in Dickens, Stendhal, and Mayhew” (dir. A. Parker)
Thea Popko: “Perverse Texts: Visuality and Subjectivity in Henry James ’The Turn of the Screw and Witold Gombrowicz’ Pornografia” (dir. N. Behrmann)
Matt Reper: “There’s No More: The Comedy of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame” (dir. N. Rennie)