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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:
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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