Dorothy Berkson Writing Award
Call for papers Award Reception InformationDorothy Berkson Literary Award Fund
This award recognizes written achievement (e.g., scholarly essays, research projects, creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, or playwriting) focused on gender and authored by a senior. The award winners are traditionally honored at a reception that celebrates Professor Berkson’s contributions to Lewis & Clark College and the excellence of current students who study gender through scholarly analysis and written expression.
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Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies -
Remembrances of Dorothy Berkson, Professor Jean Ward -
9th Annual Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Smith Hall -
Award winners (L) Sully Pujol ’17 and Erin Keoppen ’17 (R) with Deborah Heath, Director of Gender Studies. -
2017 award winners -
Eva Gellman '18 presenting her award winning paper, "The Slipperiness of the Sublime in Eavan Boland's "The Woman Who Turns Herself Into A Fish.'" -
Dorothy Berkson, professor emerita of English -
2018 award winners, Mikay Parsons and Eva Gellman -
Mike Berkson (L) and his son David Berkson -
Mikay Parson '18 presenting their award winning paper, "Cultural Intelligibility and the Policing of Gender: The Tension Between Butler's Theory of Performativity and Personal Experience."
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2016 award winners, Angie Epifano and Eva Goellner -
2016 Graduating Gender Studies minors -
2016 award winner Angie Epifano presenting her essay, “A Veiled Revolution: The Photographs of Angèle Etoudi Essamba”. -
10th Annual Dorothy Berkson Awards -
2015 award winners, Annabel Saliba Carroll and Emma Post -
Kathryn Kucera, Stephanie Arnold, Michael Berkson, and Kemi Coutinho -
2014 award winners, Laura Houlberg and Gus Wolff -
2017 Award winner Erin Keoppen presents her essay, “Wild Words: Space, Place and Gender in Tamil Feminist Poetry and Prose.” -
Deborah Heath, director of Gender Studies -
Director Deborah Heath and program seniors -
2015 award winners Annabel Carrol (L) and Emma Post -
Jean Ward, Professor Emerita of Communication -
Congratulations to our awardees and Gender Studies graduates -
Sully Pujol presenting their essay, “‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Art(ifice)’: Female Creative Agency in John Keats’s Isabella, Lamia, and The Eve of St. Agnes.” -
2014 Berkson Awardees, Laura Houlberg and Gus Wolff, and the Gender Studies graduates -
2019 award winners (L) Mira Glasser '19 and Madeleine Bentley '19 (R) with Deborah Heath, Director of Gender Studies -
Eve March presenting her winning paper “Maggots and Metamorphosis: ‘Becoming’ in Louise Bourgeois’ Self Portraiture.” -
Gender studies faculty and graduating minors gather in Smith Hall to hear presentations from 2022 Dorothy Berkson writing award winners. -
Ashley O’Leary shares an excerpt from her award-winning paper, “‘Penetrating Nature’s Hiding Places’: Masculinist Scientific Ideals, Fatal Passions, and the Female Body in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.” -
Rishona Zimring, Gender Studies Director, giving opening remarks at 2022 Dorothy Berkson and Gender Studies awards reception -
13th Annual Dorothy Berkson Awards -
2023 Award recipients Venus Edlin (left) and Jillian Jackson (right)Photographed by Julia Salomone -
2023 Award recipient Jillian Jackson (right) and recommender Isabelle DeMarte (left)Photographed by Julia Salomone -
Venus Edlin presents 2023 award winning paper,“Lil Nas X and Dolly Parton: Genre Subversion as Queer Practice”
Photographed by Julia Salomone
Congratulations to 2023-24 winners Lauren Caldwell and McKenna Jones!
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)
Check out the Dorothy Berkson Archival Page to see past awardees, and the Dorothy Berkson Award library page with links to a selection of winning submissions.
Thank you to Dorothy Berkson’s family, friends, and colleagues, whose generous contributions have made this award possible.