Award winners

Group shot of 2024 Award Winners.

The 2023-2024 University of Waterloo Department of English Language and Literature Awards Ceremony was held on Friday, April 5, 2024. Congratulations to all our award winners!

Undergraduate

Albert Shaw Poetry Prize: I. S. Bashirah, Honourable mention: Nadia Khan 
Andrew James Dugan Prize in Literature: Andie Kaiser
Andrew James Dugan Prize in Rhetoric and Professional Writing: Jillian Franz
Award in American Literature and Culture: Jared Cubilla
Canadian Literature Prize: Hanna Freitas
Co-op Reflective Report Award: Vyshnavi Rajeevan
Diaspora and Transnational Studies Prize: Naomi Francis
Donald R. and Mary E. Snider Literary Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing: Anna-Maria Brokalakis
Emerging Scholar Award: Alicia Sheppard
English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry: Kassandra Lynne Attwood
English Society Creative Writing Award for Prose: Sara Funduk
Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing: Sebrina Bank Joergensen
Olive Carrick Scholarship in English: Nadia Khan
Rhetoric and Digital Design Award: Aidan de Villa-Choi, Yingying Huang, Vade Lail, Emma van Weesenbeek
Rhetoric and Professional Writing Award: Amaya Kodituwakku
The G.R. Hibbard Shakespeare Prize: Patricia Fagan
Walter R. Martin English 251 Award: Chloe Shantz

Graduate

Beltz Essay Prize, MA: Varsha Thulasi Pillai
Beltz Essay Prize, PhD: Sarah Casey
David Nimmo English Graduate Scholarship: Shannon Lodoen, Anna McWebb
English Rhetoric Essay Award, MA: Sophie Morgan, Chinye Obiago
English Rhetoric Essay Award, PhD: Carolyn Eckert, Honourable mentions: Sarah Casey, Omnia Elsakran
Gladys Srivastava Graduate Scholarship: Kasturi Ghosh, Melissa N.P. Johnson, Alexi Orchard, Christopher Rogers
Graduate Co-op Work Report Award: Ariel Fullerton
Graduate Creative Writing Award: Maab Al-Rashdan
Graduate Professional Communication Award: Alyssa Clarkson
Independent Graduate Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching: Chris Martin
Jack Gray Graduate Fellowship: Fatima Zohra
Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award: Kellie Chouinard, Kasturi Ghosh, Rency Luan, Humaira Shoaib, Fatima Zohra
TA Award for Excellence in Teaching: Damilola Adebajo
W. K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship: Jin Sol Kim, Dakota Pinheiro, Sabrina Sgandurra, Humaira Shoaib, Valerie Uher

Award Ceremony Image Gallery

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