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Dorothy Berkson Writing Award

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.

Congratulations to this year’s winners Phoenix Bruner and Mie Kumin!

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

Check out the Dorothy Berkson Archival Page to see past awardees!

Dorothy Berkson, professor emerita of English, taught at Lewis & Clark College from 1981 until her retirement in 2004. She died in April 2007. Professor Berkson was a presenter in Lewis & Clark’s first Gender Studies Symposium. For the gender studies minor, she designed a course titled Gender and Aesthetic Expression, which she continued to teach for many years.

Thank you to Dorothy Berkson’s family, friends, and colleagues, whose generous contributions have made this award possible

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Dorothy Berkson Writing Award

Check out the Dorothy Berkson Archival Page to see past awardees!