Award winners

Collage of award winners

The 2023 University of Waterloo Department of English Language and Literature Awards Ceremony was held on Friday, March 31, 2023. Congratulations to all our award winners!

Award Winners

Undergraduate Awards

Albert Shaw Poetry Award: Nicole Cao, Honourable Mention: I. S. Bashirah
Award in American Literature and Culture : Rhiana Safieh
Andrew James Dugan Prize in Literature Award: Jared Cubilla, Marina Dobocan
Andrew James Dugan Prize in Rhetoric and Professional Writing: Chinye Obiago
The Canadian Literature Prize : Emma Smith
Co-op Reflective Report Award: Hanna Freitas
Diaspora and Transnational Studies Prize : Amaya Kodituwakku
Donald R. and Mary E. Snider Literary Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing: Emma Joan Watson
English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry: I. S. Bashirah
English Society Creative Writing Award for Prose: Nicole Cao
English Undergraduate Award for Academic Excellence: Amaya Kodituwakku, Emma Smith
Hibbard Prize for Shakespeare Studies: Nadia Formisano
Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing: Nadia Formisano
Olive Carrick Scholarship in English: Arabella Hareem Abid
Rhetoric and Digital Design Award: Saajan Kar
Rhetoric and Professional Writing Award: Hafsa Hassan
Walter R. Martin English 251 Award: Shawna Poechman

Graduate Awards

Beltz Essay Prize, Master of Arts : Rebecca de Heuvel, Hannah Gardiner
Beltz Essay Prize, PhD: Chris Rogers
David Nimmo English Graduate Scholarship: Kem-Laurin Lubin
English Graduate Award for Academic Excellence: Aleksander Franiczek
Graduate Co-op Work Report Award: Máire Slater
Graduate Creative Writing Award Prose and Poetry: Maša Torbica
Independent Graduate Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching: Toben Racicot
Jack Gray Graduate Fellowship Award: Kellie Chouinard
Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award: Lara El Mekkawi, Aleksander Franiczek, Humaira Shoaib, Valerie Uher
Rhetoric Essay Prize, Master of Arts: Sarah Casey
TA Award for Excellence in Teaching: Chris Martin
W.K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship: Melissa Johnson, Dakota David Pinheiro

Award Ceremony Image Gallery

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Award Ceremony Video

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Award Slides with Comments

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