Accolades

Contents   

• Faculty
• Graduate Students
• Undergraduate Students 

Note: Entries are normally removed six months to one year after the date of posting.

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Faculty

Congratulations to:

• Congratulations to all of our faculty members who were successful in this year’s SSHRC Insight Grant competition!
• Congratulations to Dr. Vikki Visvis for receiving the Ranjini (Rini) Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award!
• George Elliot Clarke will be participating in a number of events across Toronto for National Poetry Month!
• Congratulations to Andrea Charise on receiving an offer of a tenure-track position in the Health Studies Program at UTSC!
• Congratulations to Professor Katie Larson for winning a short-term research fellowship at the Folger Library!
• Graduate student Morgan Vanek is a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition!
• Congratulations to Professor Marjorie Rubright for winning the Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance England!
• Cheryl Suzack has been offered the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
• Adam Hammond was interviewed by the CBC Radio One program "Fresh Air" regarding books and their digital counterparts. Click here for the broadcast.
• Toronto City Council has appointed George Elliott Clarke Toronto's new Poet Laureate. Congratulations!
• The North American Conference on British Studies announced that Simon Dickie is this year's winner of the prestigious John Ben Snow Foundation Prize for Cruelty and Laughter.
• Congratulations to Jeannine DeLombard for winning a SSHRC Connections Grant for the 48th Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, "Editing Early African American Literature."
• The organizers of the Northrop Frye conference—Educating the Imagination (October 4-6 at U of T)—Neil ten Kortenaar, Germaine Warkentin, Andrea Charise, and Alan Bewell were awarded SSHRC Connection Grant (more information)!
• Congratulations: George Elliott Clarke has received The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal "for services to African-Canadian literature," and "Excellence in the Arts" award from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
• Prof. Cheryl Suzack has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for 2-year project "Gender Counterfactuals in Justice Thurgood Marshall's Indian Law Cases."
• A.F. Moritz, whose book of poems, The New Measures, has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry
• Jeannine DeLombard, for the publication of her book, In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity, by the University of Pennsylvania Press (Jul 01'12)
• Paul Stevens, who has been honoured with the Guggenheim Fellowship (Apr 12'12)
• Randy McLeod has also been promoted to the rank of Full Professor effective 1 December 2011.
• Alan Ackerman and Sara Salih have been appinted to the rank of full professor. (Mar 30'12)
• Marlene Goldman as been appointed to the rank of full professor. (Mar 30'12)
• The collection, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (UBC 2010), which was co-edited by Cheryl Suzack, was selected for the 2012 Canadian Women's Studies Association Outstanding Scholarship Prize. (Mar 29'12)
• The University of Toronto Quarterly, under the editorship of David Galbraith and Victor Li, has been awarded a three-year SSHRC grant from the Aid to Scholarly Journals competition. (Mar 20'12)
• Announcing the publication of The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, edited by Ato Quayson, with contributions from Uzoma Esonwanne, Daniel Heath Justice, and Victor Li. (Mar 20'12)
• Announcing the release of… University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 1, Winter 2012, The Future of Northrop Frye: Centennial Perspectives, Guest Editors: Germaine Warkentin and Linda Hutcheon (Feb 14'12)
• Nick Mount debates Should CanLit be more Canadian? on CBC Radio Q
• George Elliott Clarke is one of 10 GG-winning authors asked to write a story about winter for the CBC
• Linda Hutcheon, who the Literature/Film Association has awarded the 2011 Jim Welsh Prize, which honors her career of exceptional scholarship and service in the area of Adaptation Studies (Oct 17'11)
• Paul Stevens has just been awarded the Montaigne Prize by the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS) (Oct 11'11)
• Michael Boughn was named as a Poetry Finalist for the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Awards, for his Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic (Oct 11'11)
• Carol Percy was awarded a prestigious OCUFA Outstanding Teaching Award (Sept '11) 
• Tom Keymer was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. It is a very well-deserved honour which reflects the substantial contributions that he has made and continues to make in eighteenth-century studies. (July 22'11)
• Ming Xie has been given tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations, Ming. The Department of English is delighted with the news of your success. (Jun. 29'11)
• Daniel Justice and Cheryl Suzack , who with ten other scholars co-wrote Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (U of Oklahoma P, 2008).  This book was voted as one of the ten most influential books in Native American and Indigenous Studies in the first decade of the twenty-first century by the membership of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). (May 24'11)
• Marjorie Rubright , who has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant. (May 24'11)
• Marjorie Rubright , who won a Connaught New Researcher award for "Counterfeit Subjects: Exile Essays in the English Renaissance". (May 19'11)
• Karina Vernon, who won a Connaught New Researcher award for "Urban Memory: History, Amnesia, and Writing in the Canadian City". (May 19'11)
• Stanka Radović, who has received a Connaught New Researcher Award. As the letter from Paul Young says, "in this inaugural competition, the Committee received eighty-two applications in the $10,000 category" and sixty were successful, so this is a "strong vote of confidence" in Stanka's project, "Wilson Harris and the Geo-poetic Imagination in Caribbean Literature." (May 19'11)
• Michael Cobb has been promoted to the rank of Professor. This is a signal achievement and speaks to the high esteem in which he is held by his peers. Congratulations Michael! (Apr. 13'11)
• Ian Lancashire, who was awarded a SSHRC Standard Research Grant  for his project on “Lexical Dynamics in Early Modern English” (Apr. 1'11) 
• Andy Orchard, who was awarded a SSHRC Standard Research Grant  for his project on “Mapping Anglo-Saxon Poetry.” (Apr. 1'11) 
• Jeannine M. DeLombard, who received a 2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant for "Blackened Reputations: The Slave Narrative and the Transformation of American Civic Identity." (Mar. 30'11)
• Alex Gillespie, who has been successful in her application for a SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Mar. 30'11)
• Mari Ruti, who received a 2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant for "Becoming Human: Self, Other, Ethics." (Mar. 30'11) 
• Cary DiPietro, who at the time he applied was a Sessional Lecturer II in English and Drama, is the recipient one of a limited number of one-year grants awarded by SSHRC to meritorious New Scholars in this competition. (Mar. 30'11)
• David Taylor has accepted our offer of a tenure-track position in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Department of English and Drama, UTM, effective 1 July 2011.  (Feb. 23'11)
• Nick Mount is a recipients of the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship. This is the top teaching honour in Canada (with a maximum of 10 recipients annually). It is a tremendous and well-deserved honour for Nick, and it is great to have such a fine teacher in our midst. Congratulations to Nick on his success. (Feb.10'11)

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Graduate Students

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following Department of English Graduate students on winning these prestigious awards in 2012-13 (Aug. '12): 

• David Adkins: Ontario Trillium Scholarship; V.A. DeLuca Memorial Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Hannah Allen: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Antonios Antoniades: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Melissa Auclair: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Andrew Battershill: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award
• Tiffany Bayliss: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Justin Begley: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English; FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant  
• Grant Bellamy: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Admission Award
• Katherine Bergevin: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Elizabeth Bernath: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Gillian Bright: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Stephen Brown: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Sarah De Jong Carson: Doctoral Completion Award; FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Andrea Charise: 2011-12 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in English;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Christine Choi: Doctoral Completion Award;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Laura Clarridge: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Michael Collins: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Julia Cooper: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Stephen Coughlin: Avie Bennett Award; Department of English Admisison Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Heidi Craig: University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Andrea Day: University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Abigail Dennis: University of Toronto Fellowship; Jackman Junior Fellowship; Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities
• Philip John Dickinson: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Sir Joseph Flavelle Fellowship
• Aaron James: Donachuk : Ontario Graduate Scholarship; University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Award
• Michael Anthony Donnelly: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; McCuaig-Throop Bursary;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Claire Duncan: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Melanie East: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Alexander Eastwood: The Toronto Star Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Department of English; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Department winner of Summer 2012 Cornell School of Criticism & Theory competition
• Lindsey Eckert: Doctoral Completion Award
• Agnes Ecsedy: Doctoral Completion Award
• Jeffrey Espie: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award
• John Estabillo: Christopher Wallis Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Department of English; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Daniel Etigson: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Joel Faber: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Margeaux Feldman: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Catherine Fleming: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Admisison Award
• Norah Franklin: 2013 Religion and Literature Travel Award to Lancaster, UK.
• Emily Fraser: Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Studies
• Seyward Goodhand: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Emma Gorst: Doctoral Completion Award; SSHRC Post-Doc
• Dara Greaves: Doctoral Completion Award
• Elissa Gurman: Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC); University of Toronto Fellowship; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• James Hahn: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Megan Laurel Harris: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Paul Harrison: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Timothy Harrison: University of Toronto Fellowship; Shane Baghai Fellowship in English Literature
• Aaron Yale Heisler: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Sarah Henderson: Doctoral Completion Award
• Letitia Henville: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Margaret Herrick: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Nicholas Herring: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award
• Alexandra Howard: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Jennifer Hunnef : Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Heather Jessup: University of Toronto Fellowship; Recipient of the 2012 English Institute Travel Subsidy
• Kaelyn Kaoma: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Deni Kasa: Dorothy Louise Ellison, 4T8 Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Department of English; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship, 2013 Religion and Literature Travel Award to Lancaster, UK. 
• Jonathan Kerr: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Joanna Krongold: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Admisison Award; Centre for Jewish Studies Award
• Tracy Kyncl: Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Graduate Award from Victoria College
• Mat Laporte: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement Award; 2012-13 Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing 
• Christopher Laprade: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Thomas Laughlin: University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Christopher Laxer: 2012 NINES Fellowship
• Kristen Lemay: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Jeremy Lim: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Oliver Lue: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Elizabeth Martin: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Rachel McArthur: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Tara McDonald: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Lora Moon: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Sofia Mostaghimi: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award
• Katherine Mullins: Dr. Ranbir Singh Khanna Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Studies; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Angelo Muredda: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Nathan Murray: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Taylor Najjar: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• Daniel Newman: University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Alexandra Nica: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Natasha Novac: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Miriam Novick: Doctoral Completion Award
• Kathleen Ogden: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Lara Okihiro: Doctoral Completion Award
• Anthony Oliveira: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Natalie Papoutsis (Drama Centre): 2010-11 Clifford Leech Prize
• Erin Parker: Doctoral Completion Award
• Melissa Patterson: Doctoral Completion Award
• Jason Scott Peters: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Erin Piotrowski: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; 2011-12 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in English
• Celine Pitre: Thomas and Beverley Simpson Ontario Graduate Scholarship at the Faculty of Arts and Science; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Brittany Pladek: Doctoral Completion Award
• Christopher Pugh: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Michael Raby: Doctoral Completion Award
• Jay Rajiva: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Alpen Razi: University of Toronto Fellowship; Chawton House Library Visiting Fellow (Council of the American Antiquarian Socitey)
• Simon Reader: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Lindsay Reeve: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Talia Regan: Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Noa Reich: University of Toronto Fellowship
• David Ritter: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Christine Robertson: Doctoral Completion Award
• Joel Rodgers: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Jacqueline Rothstein: University of Toronto Fellowship; Centre for Jewish Studies Award
• Erin Rozanski: Doctoral Completion Award
• Elana Laurel Ryan: Doctoral Completion Award;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Tristan Samuk: Ruth E. and Harry E. Carter Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Faculty of Arts and Science; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Barton Saunders:  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Philip Sayers: Ontario Trillium Scholarship; V.A. DeLuca Memorial Fellowship; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Matthew Schneider: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Benjamin Shakinovsky: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Katherine Shwetz: University of Toronto Fellowship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Marilyn Simon: Doctoral Completion Award
• Marissa Sinclair: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Stephanie Southmayd: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Sarah Star: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Elisa Maria Tersigni: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Award
• Adrienne Todd: Thomas and Beverley Simpson Ontario Graduate Scholarship at the Faculty of Arts and Science; Avie Bennett Award; University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Award & Admission Award; Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship in English
• Morgan Vanek: University of Toronto Fellowship; 2011-12 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in English; University of Toronto Women's Association Scholarship;  FAS/Department Graduate Conference Travel Grant
• Sundhya Walther: Thomas and Beverley Simpson Ontario Graduate Scholarship at the Faculty of Arts and Science; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship
• Erin Webster: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Jude Welburn: Doctoral Completion Award
• Leslie Wexler: University of Toronto Fellowship; Department of English Admission Award; John MacRory Fellowship
• David Wilton: University of Toronto Fellowship; Ruben Cheng and Pui Yuk Chek Cheng Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities 
• Jessica Wolfe: University of Toronto Fellowship
• Kyle Wyatt: 2010-11 A.S.P Woodhouse Prize
• Denis Yarow: Gordon Russell and Beatrice Bott Dow Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Department of English; Department of English Award; University of Toronto Fellowship

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Undergraduate Students

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

The Department is proud to present 2011-12 English prize winners:

• Aikins Scholarship in English:
• Jane Austen Society of North America - Toronto Chapter:
• Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature:
• Beverley Beetham Endersby Prize: Virlana Shchuka
• Department of English Book Prize: Tajja Isen
• Department of English Prize: 
• John King Scholarship in English Language and Literature:
• Winston and Stephanie Ling Award in English: Melissa Wison
• Glen Mawr Old Girls’ Association Scholarship in English: Robyn Hope
• Lucy Ingram Morgan Gold Medal in English: Julia Decker
• Walter A. O'Grady Undergraduate Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: Jordan Mulder
• Walter A. O'Grady Undergraduate Scholarship in English: Robert L. Powell
• E.J. Pratt Medal in Poetry and Prize: Marcus McCann
• Elinore Siminovitch Memorial Bursary: Julia Decker
• Elinore Siminovitch Memorial Prize:
• Anne Tanenbaum Scholarship in English Literature (Second Year): Sean McArthur
• Anne Tanenbaum Scholarship in English Literature (Third Year): Tajja Isen
• Christopher Wallis Undergraduate Scholarship in English: Robert L. Powell
• Milton Wilson Prize: Heather Eason

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

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