Dorothy Berkson Award Archive
Congratulations to the past recipients of the Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies.
2023-24 Recipients:
Lauren Caldwell ’24 (English)
“A Shroud Enveloped Her Form”: Incest, the Language of Family, and the Legibility of Power In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (essay)
McKenna Jones ’24 (English)
“Snakes’ Blood: Reclaiming the Dualistic View of the Archaic Medusa” (essay)
2022-23 Recipients:
Venus Edlin ’23 (Rhetoric and Media Studies)
“Lil Nas X and Dolly Parton: Genre Subversion as Queer Practice” (essay)
Jillian Jackson ’23 (English)
“Can the Master’s Linguistics Dismantle the Master’s House?:
Zilia’s Subversive Bilingualism in Letters of a Peruvian Woman” (essay)
2021-22 Recipients:
Eve March ’22 (Art History)
“Maggots and Metamorphosis: ‘Becoming’ in Louise Bourgeois’ Self Portraiture” (essay)
Ashley O’Leary ’22 (English)
“‘Penetrating Nature’s Hiding Places’: Masculinist Scientific Ideals, Fatal Passions, and the Female Body in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (essay)
2020–2021 Recipients:
Phoenix Bruner ’21 (English, Gender Studies minor)
“The Persistence and Impossibility of Queer Life: Representations of Queerness in Katherine
Mansfield’s ‘At the Bay’ ” (essay)
Mie Kumin ’21 (Sociology/Anthropology, Gender Studies and Russian Studies minor)
“Свои/Чужие [Ours/Others]: Sexual Others of the Imaginary Elsewhere” (essay)
2019–20 Recipients:
Amaris Bouchard ’20 (Sociology/Anthropology)
“Howl Together: An Ethnography for my Grandmother” (essay)
Maura Phillips ’20 (English)
“The Edges of Imagination: Women, Art, and Desire in Keats’s Late Romances” (essay)
2018–19 Recipients:
Madeleine Bentley (Sociology/Anthropology)
“Not just ‘like a love affair.’ Tracing the personal in narratives of sexual arousal while breastfeeding” (essay)
Mira Glasser (Rhetoric and Media Studies)
“Queering the Self in Illness: Katherine Mansfields to Katherine Mansfields” (essay)
2017–18 Recipients:
Eva Gellman (English)
“The Slipperiness of the Sublime in Eavan Boland’s “The Woman Who Turns Herself Into A Fish”” (essay)
Mikay Parsons (Psychology)
“Cultural Intelligibility and the Policing of Gender: The Tension Between Butler’s Theory of Performativity and Personal Experience” (essay)
2016–17 Recipients:
Erin Keoppen (Rhetoric & Media Studies)
“Wild Words: Space, Place and Gender in Tamil Feminist Poetry and Prose” (essay)
Sully Pujol (English/Hispanic Studies)
“‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Art(ifice)’: Female Creative Agency in John Keats’s Isabella, Lamia, and The Eve of St. Agnes” (essay)
2015–16 Recipients:
Angie Epifano (Art History)
“A Veiled Revolution: The Photographs of Angèle Etoudi Essamba” (essay)
Eva Goellner (Rhetoric & Media Studies) “Problematizing “Strong”: Why the Strong Female Character is No Longer Enough” (essay)
2014–15 Recipients:
Annabel Saliba Carroll (English)
“The Roles of Illness in the Works of Virginia Woolf” (essay)
Emma Post (English)
“We Begin Our Tour of the Female Muse” (poetry)
2013–14 Recipients:
Laura Houlberg (Environmental Studies),
“Exclusive Environments: Transmisogyny in U.S. Environmentalism” (senior thesis)
Gus Wolff (Political Science),
“A Kind of Love: A Decade of Camp and Me” (essay)
2012–13 Recipients:
Eline Leemans (Sociology/Anthropology)
“Crafting Reproductive Rights Through Social Practice Art” (senior thesis)
Faolán Thompson (History)
“Quiet Anxiety: Women, Domesticity, and Confinement” (essay)
2011–12 Recipients:
Kemiyondo Coutinho (Theatre/Rhetoric and Media Studies)
“Kawuna…You’re It” (original one-woman play)
Kathryn Kucera (Sociology/Anthropology)
“A Case for the Radical Potential of a Cyborg Poet” (essay)
2010–11 Recipients:
Rhiannon Troutman (Sociology/Anthropology)
“Transitions of Crisis: Building ‘Home’ for Transgender Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care” (essay)
Arielle White (Biology)
“Redefining Cultural Citizenship to Escape Patriarchal Politics” (essay)
2009–10 Recipients:
William Haines (English)
“Fluidity: Gender, Bodily Fluids and the Grotesque Language of Alexander Pope” (essay)
Maile Speakman (Sociology/Anthropology)
“No Hay Manera Apagar el Ocio (They Can’t Stop the Leisure): Queer and Countercultural Space in Contemporary Havana” (essay)
2008–09 Recipients:
Kimberly Fanshier (Theatre)
“Bad Hour” (original play)
Kacie Dalziel (Sociology/Anthropology)
“Long Live the King! Gender Performance and the Politics of Drag Kings” (essay)
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Thank you to Dorothy Berkson’s family, friends, and colleagues, whose generous contributions have made this award possible.
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