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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
 

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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