Senior Projects Awards & Presentation
View more Literature Senior Projects on Digital Commons.
-
Senior Projects in Literature 2022
Senior Projects in Literature 2022
LAYL NEZAR ANDARY
Tivoli, New York
Literature: “Time, History, and the Folk: Miguel de Cervantes, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire”
Project Adviser: Alys Moody
THEOPHILA BARICKMAN
Lakeland, Florida
Literature: “Theophila”
Concentration: Medieval Studies
Project Adviser: Karen Sullivan
LESLIE AURORA CALLE
Kingston, New York
Literature: “The Representations of Parental Relationships in Zoraida Córdova’s Novel: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina”
Project Adviser: John Burns
KEVIN JAMES COHEN
New York, New York
Literature: “Land, Language, and Liberation: The Politics of Ainu Self-Representations”
Concentration: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Adviser: Alex Benson
ELIZABETH ANASTACIA DEGEORGE
Mamaroneck, New York
Literature: “Zola’s Vampires”
Project Adviser: Daniel Benjamin Williams
CELESTE JANE FLAHAVEN
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Literature: “American Bucolic: The American Farmer in Three Works”
Project Adviser: Bradford Morrow
SARAH KEARNS
Staten Island, New York
Literature: “Pussy Envy: Subversion of Androcentric Discourse in Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto”
Concentration: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Adviser: Robert Weston
NICHOLAS ELIAS MIAOULIS
Damariscotta, Maine
Literature: “About-fiction, Beyond-fiction, and After-fiction”
Project Adviser: Matthew Mutter
LAILA ROSE PERLMAN
New York, New York
Literature: “After the Curtain Call: Reading Theatricality in Contemporary Fiction”
Project Adviser: Adhaar Noor Desai
ALEXANDRA PIIRIMAE
Rockaway, New Jersey
Literature: “Delany’s Heterotopia”
Project Adviser: Alex Benson
DANIELLA RAPPARPORT
Costa Mesa, California
Human Rights and Literature: “Kafka beyond Signification: Testimony, Community, and Truth”
Project Adviser: Alys Moody
JOHN JOSEPH REISERT
Belgrade, Maine
Literature: “A Wee Bit Further over There: An Exploration into Offensive Comedy”
Project Advisers: Elizabeth Frank and Marina van Zuylen
ROSE AMELIA RUGENDORF
New York, New York
Literature: “‘Bothe the Heye and the Lowe’: Role Reversal and Medieval Animal Allegory”
Concentration: Medieval Studies
Project Adviser: Daniel Benjamin Williams
BENJAMIN YUNG NATHANIEL SHAW
Rhinebeck, New York
Literature: “Moral Systems in Nabokov’s Fiction: Commentaries on Two Short Stories”
Project Adviser: Matthew Mutter
JACOB BELA SZEPESSY
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Literature: “Alphabetic Poetics: Between Joyce and Nabokov”
Project Adviser: Olga Voronina
SPENCER LUIS VAZQUEZ
Chicago, Illinois
Film and Electronic Arts and Literature: “‘Everything Is Being Recorded’: On Police Body Cameras”
Project Advisers: Ed Halter and Elizabeth M. Holt
AVEN ELAINA WILLIAMS
Montpelier, Vermont
Literature: “The Other Side of Silence: The Productive Limits of Human Awareness and the Novel”
Project Adviser: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
-
Senior Awards and Prizes 2022
Senior Awards and Prizes 2022
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
Aven Williams
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.
Lanna Gao
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.
Ruthie Boumboume
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.
Michael Brown
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.
Laila Perlman
Wilton Moore Lockwood Prize
A prize awarded to students who have submitted particularly distinguished creative and critical writing in course work.
Charles Clateman (creative)
Eli Lotz (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.
Khadija Ghanizada
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.
Zoe Allen
Benjamin Stroman
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.
Faye Thompson