June 20, 2025 by
The Department of English
English undergraduate student Lia Iannarilli has been named the winner of the 2025 Julia Reibetanz Prize for the Best Essay on Romantic Poetry. Lia’s prize-winning essay is “Drag it to the Ground: The Narrator's ‘Othering’ Practices in Wordsworth's ‘The Thorn.’” The prize competition judge, Professor Terry Robinson, praised the essay’s “sophisticated analysis” of Wordsworth’s poem for demonstrating “how careful close reading can shed brilliant new light on well-known works of literature.” Congratulations, Lia!