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 2009 Horst Frenz prize:  

Ariel Ross (Emory University), for her paper, "'I Will Move Hell': Virgil's Repetition Compulsion" (CITATION)

The Frenz Prize Committee for 2009 is: Eugene Eoyang (chair, Indiana University and Lingnan University), Pericles Lewis (Yale University), and Virginia Jackson (Tufts University).

If you heard a graduate student whose presentation at the 2009 conference in Harvard seemed to you outstanding, please pass along as much information as possible (name of presenter, paper title, e-mail, etc.) to the ACLA Secretariat, Elizabeth Richmond-Garza. It is helpful to explain why you admire the paper. The deadline for nominations is September 15, 2009.

Previous Frenz prize winners:

• 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.