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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
Click on the first photo to launch the gallery.
Emma Joan Watson receives the Donald R. and Mary E. Snider Literary Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing from Dr. Heather Smyth.
Amaya Kodituwakku receives the English Undergraduate Award for Academic Excellence from Dr. Victoria Lamont.
Emma Smith receives the English Undergraduate Award for Academic Excellence from Dr. Victoria Lamont.
Nadia Formisano receives the Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing from Dr. Heather Smyth.
Toben Racicot receives the Independent Graduate Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching from Dr. Heather Smyth.
Humaira Shoaib receives the Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award from Dr. John Savarese.
Lara El Mekkawi receives the Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award from Dr. John Savarese.
Valerie Uher receives the Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award from Dr. John Savarese.
Dakota David Pinheiro receives the W.K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship - co-winner from Dr. Bruce Dadey.
Chinye Obiago receives the Andrew James Dugan Prize in Rhetoric and Professional Writing from Dr. Dorothy Hadfield.