Accolades

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Faculty

Congratulations to:

Congratulations to Alexandra Johnston on being awarded the Order of Canada.
Terry Robinson on winning the 2018 Ted Cohen Prize from the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) for her essay "Eighteenth-Century Connoisseurship and the Female Body,” published in Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford UP. Web. 10 May 2017.
Heather Murray on being awarded 2018-19 Jackman Humanities Institute Six-Month Faculty Research Fellowship.
Katie Larson on being awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars.
Marlene Goldman on being awarded Canadian National Institute for Blind's Barbara Tuck-MacPhee award.
Robert McGill on being awarder Robert Kroetsch Teaching Award.
Sonja Nikkila on being awarded UTSC Teaching Award.
Rijuta Mehta on being awarded 2017-18 Connaught New Researcher Award.
Tom Keymer on being elected as Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, for Hilary(Winter) Term 2018-19.
George Elliot Clarke on being awarded Dalhousie's Lifetime Achievement Award and Trailblazers award from Federation of Black Canadian and Michaelle Jean Foundation.
Alan Bewell on being awarded 2017 Distinguished Scholar of the Keats/Shelley Association.
Andrea Charise on being awarded Connaught New Research Fellowship; Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship n Digital Humanities.
Thom Dancer on being awarded Connaught New Research Fellowship.
Cheryl Suzack on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars , and awarded the Fullbright award and the Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship.
Larry Switzky on being awarded UTM's Robinson Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor Andrea Most who is this year’s winner of the Northrop Frye Award. This award recognizes the extraordinary ways in which Professor Most combines her cutting-edge research with innovative ways of teaching.

Graduate Students

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following Department of English Graduate students on winning these prestigious awards in 2018-19 (Nov '18):

Maria Al-Raes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M); Mara Roebuck Memorial Graduate Prize in English; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Sara Ameri Mahabadi: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Robin Anderson: Doctoral Completion Award
Andre Roman Babyn: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (The Toronto Star/OGS in the Faculty of Arts and Science/Department of English); University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Dustin James Batty: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Grant Bellamy: 2018-19 Outstanding TA Award in English
Connor Bennett: Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Daniel Bergman: J.W. Spitzer Scholarship; Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D); Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Nicole Birch-Bayley: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Julia Anderson Boyd: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Arlynda Boyer: Chancellor Jackman Junior Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Gabriel Victor Briex: C. B. Farrar International Graduate Scholarship in English; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Yan Kei Charissa Chan: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Clara Chang: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Julianna Chianelli: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Caroline Elizabeth Colantonio: Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship; Henry Beissel Scholarship in Creative Writing
Sarah Cole: Chancellor Jackman Junior Fellowship; Department of English Award; Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M); University of Toronto Fellowship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Amy Cote: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; 2018-19 Outstanding TA Award in English; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Una Creedon-Carey: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Apala Das: Chancellor Jackman Junior Fellowship; Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Gordon Russell and Beatrice Bott Dow/OGS in the Department of English); University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Molly Rhiannon Dawe: Shane Baghai Fellowship in English Literature; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Erin Della Mattia: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Jonathan Dick: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M); Linda Hutcheon Graduate Scholarship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English; Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Daniel Direkoglu: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Angela Du: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Nicole Dufoe: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Jessica Elkaim: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Dorothy Louise Ellison, 4T8/OGS in the Department of English); University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Lawrence Isaac Evalyn: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Margeaux Feldman: Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Claire Foster: V.A. De Luca Memorial Fellowship
Kate Libbey Foote Frank: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Karl Fritze: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Mary Germaine: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Dr. Ranbir Singh Khanna/OGS in Canadian Studies)
Rohan Ghatage: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Danyse Andrea Golick: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Christopher Gouin: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
James Hahn: Vivian Poy Chancellor's Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Victor Hainagiu: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Emily Halliwell-Macdonald: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Ira Halpern: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Carson Hammond: J.W. Spitzer Scholarship; Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D); Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Graham Hassell: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Scott Herder: Doctoral Completion Award; Graduate Student Summer Institute Study Award
Caroline Holland: Doctoral Completion Award
Sarah Elizabeth Howden: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Arts and Science Doctoral Recruitment Award; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); Graduate Student Research Travel Award; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Reilly Howe: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award
Jordan Howie: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); 2018-19 Outstanding TA Award in English; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Brittney Nicole Hubley: Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship
Tiffany Humble: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Julia Isler: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Henry Ivry: Chancellor Jackman Junior Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
James William (Billy) Johnson: Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship; Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship
Mitchell Johnston: Doctoral Completion Award
Zachary Jones: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M)
Max Karpinski: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Christopher Kelleher: Chancellor Jackman Junior Fellowship; Doctoral Completion Award
Daniel Kennedy: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D); Folger Institute Dissertation Seminar, Researching the Archive
Niyosha Keyzad: Doctoral Completion Award
Kyle Kinaschuk: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D); Graduate Student Research Travel Award; 2019 recipient of the TATP TA Teaching Excellence Award
Anna Kozak: University of Toronto Fellowship; Graduate Student Research Travel Award; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Stefan Krecsy: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Joanna Krongold: Graduate Student Research Travel Award; Camilla (Cavanagh) O'Connor Conference/Research Travel Bursary
Chelsea Bronwynn Latremouille: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Emily Catherine Leahy: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M); Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Timothy Lem-Smith: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D); Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship
Iona Lister: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Veronica Litt: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Austin Long: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M); Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English; Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Prathna Lor: Doctoral Completion Award; Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Karl Philip Alexander Manis: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Julia Mattison: Connaught International Scholarship; RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellowship
Colleen Madeline McDonell: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Sean Alexander McPhail: Department of English Award; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Dustin Meyer: Connaught International Scholarship
Ashley Morford: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Katheryne Morrissette: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Department of English Award ; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Jacob Morrow: Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Sarah Moscovitch: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M)
Kyle Murdock: Department of English Award; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Thomas and Beverley Simpson/OGS at the Faculty of Arts and Science); University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Illya Nokhrin: Doctoral Completion Award
Tracy Ann O'Brien: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Cassandra Olsen: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award
Fawn Parker: Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship; Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing
Robert Leighton Powell: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Julie Prior: Department of English Award; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English 2019 Summer Thesis Fellowship; Brian Corman Graduate Prize; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Taleen Purewal: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Stephanie Irene Redekop: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Noa Reich: A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize (2017-18)
Michael Reid: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D)
Kimberly Rodda: Doctoral Completion Award; Graduate Student Research Travel Award; Camilla (Cavanagh) O'Connor Conference/Research Travel Bursary
Colin Rowley: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Thomas and Beverley Simpson/OGS at the Faculty of Arts and Science); Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Ivan Sapp: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Thomas and Beverley Simpson/OGS at the Faculty of Arts and Science); Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Graduate Student Research Travel Award; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Alexander Sarra-Davis: University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Dane Sauve: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Aidan Selmer: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M)
Jonah Shallit: Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Melanie Simoes Santos: Department of English Award; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Jasleen Singh: Arts and Science Recognition of Excellence Award; Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship
Ryan Stafford: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Mackenzie Stewart: Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Isabel Stowell-Kaplan (Drama Centre): Clifford Leech Prize (2017-18)
Cecilia Stuart: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M); Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English; Graduate Student Research Travel Award
Brandon Taylor: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS in Canadian Studies); ITER Fellowship (CRRS); Graduate Student Research Travel Award; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Alexander Thomas: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Christopher [Chris] Wallis/OGS in the Department of English); Graduate Student Research Travel Award; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Nicholas Domenic Tostowaryk: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
Christina Turner: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Jackman Humanities Institute Mellon Graduate Fellowship; Northrop Frye Centre Doctoral Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship; John W. Spitzer Scholarship; Cornell School of Criticism & Theory Summer 2019 (department recipient); Graduate Student Research Travel Award; Winner of Canadian Literature's 60th Anniversary Graduate Student Essay Prize; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Joel William Vaughan: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Katherine Elizabeth Walton: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D); Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship
Brenda Wang: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award
Alexandra (Aley) Waterman: Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship
Leslie Wexler: 2018-19 Outstanding TA Award in English
Kelly Whitehead: Arts and Science Graduate Admissions Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Alexander Wichert: Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
Junran (Judith) Yan: Edwin S. H. Leong Scholarship; V.A. De Luca Memorial Fellowship
Yoam Yoreh: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc); University of Toronto Fellowship Top-Up Award
Isabelle Zhu: Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship; Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (CGS M)

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Undergraduate Students

For information on the Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards, please click here.

The Department is proud to present our 2017-18 English prize winners:

Aikins Scholarship in English: Meg Jianing Zhang
Jane Austen Society of North America - Toronto Chapter Scholarship: Magdalene Stavrou
Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature: Kristen Zimmer
Beverley Beetham Endersby Prize: Emma Duffee
Department of English Book Prize: Hyeonji Kim
Department of English Prize: Audrey Chen
C.B. Farrar Undergraduate Scholarship in English: Riley McGuire
John King Scholarship in English Language and Literature:
Winston and Stephanie Ling Award in English: Riley McGuire
Dr. Arnold W. and Edna M. Macpherson Memorial Scholarship: Nathaniel Crocker
Glen Mawr Old Girls' Association Scholarship in English: Jovana Pajovic
Walter A. O'Grady Undergraduate Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: Fatma Shahin
Walter A. O'Grady Undergraduate Scholarship in English: Hyeonji Kim
Elinore Siminovitch Memorial Bursary: Sara Bolourchian
Elinore Siminovitch Memorial Prize: Samantha Santoro
John W. Spitzer Scholarships: Maria Al-Raes, Marina Klimenko, Austin Long, Meg Jianing Zhang
Anne Tanenbaum Scholarship in English Literature (Second Year): Samantha Santoro
Anne Tanenbaum Scholarship in English Literature (Third Year): Audrey Chen
Christopher Wallis Undergraduate Scholarship in English: Maria Al-Raes
Milton Wilson Prize: Dana Tors

Note: Names are withheld until the winners confirm that we may post them.

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