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Senior Projects in Literature 2024

CHRISTOPHER MASTERSON BENINCASE 
Literature: “Revolt against Reality: The Lineage of Chivalric Romance”
Project Adviser: Karen Sullivan
 
LEON DAVIS
Literature and the Humanities: “‘We Cannot Be Free until They Are Free . . .’: James Baldwin’s Shift from Negro to Black and the Fractured Identity”
Project Adviser: Donna Ford Grover ’80

JACK IAN DEANGELIS
Literature: “The Architect: Worldbuilding in the Works of Cormac McCarthy and China Miéville”
Project Adviser: Adhaar Noor Desai
  
MARYLENA HONO
Human Rights and Literature: “Eyes Settle the Land”
Project Advisers: Daniel Benjamin Williams and Alys Moody
 
VIVIAN NOAH HOYDEN
American and Indigenous Studies and Literature: “Please Believe: Muriel Rukeyser, Mary McCarthy, and Their Literary Lives”
Project Advisers: Peter L’Official and Deirdre d’Albertis 

MARTIAL CHARLES JUNCEAU
Literature: “Hagiography (Theorem) of a Postmodern Saint: Reading Blessed Carlo Acutis through St. Francis of Assisi”
Project Adviser: Karen Sullivan
 
ZOE GRANT KAPERONIS
Film and Electronic Arts and Literature: “Makin’ Whoopee: Creating Eddie Cantor on Screen”
Project Advisers: Richard Suchenski and Daniel Benjamin Williams 

PIN-SHAN LAI
Literature and Politics: “Thinking of Western Influence: Elite Chinese Women’s Response from the 1880s to 1920s”
Project Advisers: Shuangting Xiong and Pinar Kemerli 

SYDNEY ELISE LePLAE
Literature: “Crisis and Catharsis: Altered States of Consciousness in Andrei Bely’s Novels”
Project Adviser: Olga Voronina

JIAYI LIU
Literature: “Blood Blossom: A Subversion of the Traditional Structure of Martial Arts Novels”
Project Advisers: Elizabeth Frank and Shuangting Xiong
 
MARIA PUENTE FLORES
Literature: “CARTAS REVOLUCIONARIAS”
Project Adviser: John Burns

STELLA R. SCANLON
Literature: “‘The Fire and the rose are one.’ Pattern, Interpretation, and Self in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets”
Project Adviser: Matthew Mutter

ISAK J. SJURSEN
Literature: “Nabokov in Movieland: Cinematic Representations in Laughter in the Dark and Lolita”
Concentration: Experimental Humanities
Project Adviser: Olga Voronina
 
KEVON CASSIUS STREET
Literature: “An Annotated Telling of the Misadventures of Shylock Jones, Negro Super Sleuth, Compiled, Redacted, and Edited by Kev Street”
Project Adviser: Hua Hsu

BENJAMIN STROMAN
Literature: “Dionysus in Salem: Crisis and Vitality in Contemporary Theatrical Performance”
Project Adviser: Thomas Bartscherer
 
BENICIO ERASTO MARTINEZ TAGGART 
Literature: “The Saga of Aslaug Sigurdsdottir or The Saga of the Volsungs Retold”
Concentration: Medieval Studies
Project Adviser: Karen Sullivan

TRISTAN HAMILTON TIMPONE 
Literature: “DON’T BAN THIS PROJECT”
Project Adviser: Thomas Bartscherer

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Senior Awards and Prizes 2024

Spadaccia Family Scholar in Literature
An endowed scholarship established by the Spadaccia family and awarded to an outstanding Upper College student who has moderated in literature
Lola Hockenberry

Irma Brandeis Award
A prize given annually to a third-year student or students with an excellent academic record, whose Senior Project in literature, languages, history, art history, philosophy, or the history of science is  outstanding for both broadness of vision and precision of thought. The prize honors Bard’s  distinguished, longtime faculty member Irma Brandeis, whose contributions to Dante scholarship and to Bard College exemplify the virtues embodied in this prize.
Robert Cambias

Mark Purlia '17 Memorial Scholar
A scholarship given by the parents of Mark Purlia ’71, in his name and memory, and awarded annually to a student who, in the judgment of the Division of Languages and Literature, best fulfills conditions of ability, character, and need.
Sam Crocker

Bill Sanders ’90 Memorial Prize
A prize given in memory of Bill Sanders ’90 to a student for appreciative, elegant, and insightful critical writing in English literature.
Lukas Olausson

Robert Rockman Prize
A prize established by the Class of 1966 to honor and acknowledge Robert Rockman, a beloved teacher devoted to making the Bard experience come to life for more than 40 years, and awarded to junior or senior for excellence in literature and theater. 
Benjamin Stroman

Wilton Moore Lockwood Prize
A prize awarded to students who have submitted particularly distinguished creative and critical writing in course work.
Anna Nelson (creative)
WVivian Hoyden (critical)
 
William Frauenfelder Award
An award established in honor of William Frauenfelder, beloved professor of modern languages and literature for more than 30 years, awarded to a sophomore or junior excelling in the study of one or more foreign languages.
Olga Borzenko

Margaret and John Bard Scholar
Honorary scholarships awarded annually by the faculty of each division of the College to not more than two students in each division for outstanding academic achievement in the field of major interest.
Sam Crocker
Lydia Schultz

Mary McCarthy Award
An award given to a junior who, through competitive selection by a special jury, is deemed the most promising and talented prose writer entering the senior year.
Noah Barbosa