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  • 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
     
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