The Horst Frenz Prize

The Horst Frenz Prize is awarded to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the ACLA. The Horst Frenz Prize consists of a $300 Amazon.com book coupon, complimentary registration and a complimentary ticket to the banquet, and a travel reimbursement grant of up to $300 to attend the following year's ACLA Conference to receive the award in person, as well as publication of the paper in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature.

The Frenz Prize judges are convened by the Vice-President of the Association, who chairs the committee. Nominations of papers are encouraged from all ACLA members who participated in the annual meeting.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2011 Horst Frenz prize:  

Eugenia Kelbert (Yale University), for her paper, "Reborn as René: the Interplay of Self and Language in Rilke's Late French and German Poetry" (CITATION)

Congratulations to the 2011 Horst Frenz Honorable Mention:  

Bhavya Tiwari (University of Texas at Austin), for her paper, "Comparative World Literature in India" (CITATION)

The Frenz Prize Committee for 2012 is Eugene Eoyang (Indiana), Virginia Jackson (Tufts), and Pericles Lewis (Yale).

If you hear a graduate student whose presentation at the 2012 conference at Brown University seemed to you outstanding, please pass along as much information as possible (name of presenter, paper title, e-mail, etc.) to the ACLA Secretariat, Alexander Beecroft. It is helpful to explain why you admire the paper. The deadline for nominations is May 20th, 2012.

Previous Frenz prize winners:

• Yi-Ping Ong (Harvard University), for her paper "Towards a Life View: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Novel" (2010). (CITATION)
  Honorable Mention: Cecile Guédon (U of London), for her paper "Poetic Gestures, Modernist Choreographies" (2010). (CITATION)
• Ariel Ross (Emory University), for her paper, "'I Will Move Hell': Virgil's Repetition Compulsion" (2009). (CITATION)
• Sharareh Frouzesh Bennett (University of California - Irvine), for her paper, "The Politics of Appropriation: Writing, Responsibility, and the Specter of the Native Informant" (2008). (CITATION) Honorable Mention: Kyla Schuller (University of California - San Diego), for her paper, "The Fossil and the Photograph: Capturing the ‘Primitive’ in the Museum and Boarding School." (2008) (CITATION)
• Guilan Siassi (University of California - Los Angeles), for "Dreaming the Body into Words: Translating Affect between Cultures in Khatibi's Amour Bilingue" (2007). (CITATION)
  Honorable Mention: Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé (University of California - Berkeley), for "Puzzle, Parable, and the Limits of the Imagination: The Literary Ethics of Kafka and Wittgenstein" (2007). (CITATION)
• Maya Barzilai and Katra Byram (University of California - Berkeley), for "The Challenge of Lyric Address in War Poems by Yitzchak Laor and Ingeborg Bachmann" (2006). (CITATION)
• Geoffrey Baker (Rutgers University), for "Empiricism and Empire: Orientalist Antiquing in Balzac's Peau de chagrin" (2005). (CITATION)
  Honorable Mention: Karen Zumhagen (University of California - Berkeley), for "Image and Riddle as Warning in Ricardo Piglia's Artificial Respiration" (2005). (CITATION)
• Sarah Casteel (Columbia University), for "Joy Kogawa's Native Envy: New World Discourse in Obasan and Itsuka" (2004). (CITATION)
• Lida Oukaderova (University of Texas at Austin), for "Money, Translation and Subjectivity in Isaak Babel's "Guy de Maupassant" (2003).
• Katarzyna Pieprzak (University of Michigan), for "Whose Patrimony Is It Anyway? The Quarrel between Ali Baba's Cave and the National Museums of Morocco" (2002).
  Honorable Mention: Joy Ramirez (University of Colorado), for "The Desert of the Real: Las Vegas" (2002).
• Esther Gabara (Stanford University), for "Engendering Nation: Mexican Photo-Essays, 1920-1940” (2001).
• Kristi M. Wilson (University of California - San Diego), for "Nietzsche, Euripides, Philosophy and Philology in the Age of Graecomania" (2000).
• Steven Adisasmito-Smith (University of Illinois), for "The Self in Transition: British Orientalists, American Transcendentalists, and Sanskrit Scriptures in English" (1999).
   
  Please submit any missing information you might have concerning this compilation to the ACLA.