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Senior Projects Awards & Presentation

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  • Senior Projects in Literature 2021

    Senior Projects in Literature 2021


    CALEB ACKLEY
    Tivoli, New York
    Literature: “Untouchable Fullness: Male Friendship in the Novels of Willa Cather and D. H. Lawrence”
    Project Adviser: Matthew Mutter

    MELISSA THERESE BENEDEK
    Miami Shores, Florida
    Literature: “A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still with Mary Oliver”
    Project Adviser: Alex Benson

    AMELIA KATHLEEN DAVID
    Blue Lake, California
    Literature: “Poetic Piety: John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and the Puritan Writer’s Internal Errand”
    Project Adviser: Jaime Osterman Alves

    GABRIEL OLAI BEAUREGARD EGSET
    New York, New York
    Literature: “Penman Contra Patriarch: Reimagining the Central Conflict of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”
    Project Adviser: Éric Trudel

    EMMA KATHRYN JOHNSTON
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Literature: “Two Novels and Two Character Studies: Cassandra by Christa Wolf and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson”
    Project Adviser: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz

    MIRANDA KERRIGAN
    Forest Hills, New York
    Literature: “A Lust for Land: An Exploration of Environmental Creation, Destruction, and Institutional Power in
    Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
    Project Adviser: Lauren Curtis
    Political Studies: “The Cross-Dressing Terrorist, the Malaccan Mouse-Deer, and Indonesian Prison”
    Project Adviser: Samantha Hill

    HENRY CHARLES SMITH LEVIN
    Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
    Literature: “Bildung as Cult: Education through Secret Societies in German Literature”
    Project Adviser: Franz R. Kempf

    SHIRLEY MERINO
    New York, New York
    Literature: “Black Boys, Native Sons, Rufus Scotts, and Sulas: An Exploration of Literary Dissent”
    Project Adviser: Peter L’Official

    ISIS PINHEIRO
    Brooklyn, New York
    Literature: “FOR US BY US: Explorations and Introspections on the Poetics of Black Language”
    Concentration: Africana Studies
    Project Adviser: Peter L’Official

    CASSIDY JANE POLGA
    East Brookfield, Massachusetts
    Human Rights and Literature: “Beyond Empathy: Examining the Emerging Field of Literature and Human Rights”
    Concentration: Experimental Humanities
    Project Advisers: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz and Thomas Keenan

    SUCHIR PRATT
    Fallsburg, New York
    Literature: “The Auteur as Adapter: From Literature to Film in Rossellini, Godard, and Pasolini”
    Project Adviser: Joseph Luzzi

    ISABEL RUDNER
    Brooklyn, New York
    Literature: “‘She believes she is herself, which isn’t complete madness’: Becoming the Female Subject through Womanhood as Relation”
    Project Adviser: Alys Moody

    WALKER JAMES WHITE
    New York, New York
    Film and Electronic Arts and Literature: “An Interior Dam”
    Project Advisers: Ephraim Asili MFA ’11 and Éric Trudel

    YICHUN WU
    Shanghai, China
    Literature: “Eternity in Art: The Embodiment and Transcendence of Time in Proust and Messiaen”
    Project Adviser: Éric Trudel
    Piano Performance (BMus): Ligeti: Études for Piano (Book 1), No. 6, “Automne à Varsovie”; J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Minor, BWV 853; Beethoven: Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101; R. Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
    Principal Teachers: Benjamin Hochman and Blair McMillen

    XINDI ZHANG
    Beijing, China
    Literature: “Writing: Proust, Nabokov”
    Project Advisers: Éric Trudel and Olga Voronina
     
  • Senior Awards and Prizes 2021

    Senior Awards and Prizes 2021


    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
    Kira Hansen

    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.
    Kent Zheng

    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.
    Walker White

    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.
    Liam Mayo

    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.
    Emily Rose Folan (creative)
    Viveca Lawrie (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.
    Zachary Young

    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.
    Layl Andary
    Isis Pinheiro

    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.
    Lou Rosenblatt
     
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